A day after Trump formally became the party’s presidential nominee, some delegates at state gatherings around Cleveland were still struggling to come to terms with their unorthodox new standard-bearer. After Christie, Dr. Ben Carson appeared to close out the night with a brief homily about the evil of “one of Hillary Clinton’s mentors”, community organizer Saul Alinsky. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie implored delegates to shout “Guilty!” in response to various accusations of Clinton wrongdoing.
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As a former federal prosecutor, Christie asked the crowed to act as a jury as he presented the facts about her failures in Libya and Syria, caving to Russian Federation and China, supporting the Iran nuclear deal, and using a private server to keep her emails secret. “But when you pull back the curtain, it was just Donald Trump with nothing to offer to the American people”. “It is something I will never, ever forget”.
On the second night of the Republican National Convention, GOP leaders used their disdain for Hillary Clinton as their case for a Donald Trump presidency, NBC News reported. The implicit threat, too, was clear: Christie is clearly auditioning for attorney general in a Trump administration, and his audition was to lay out the reasons he would try to jail the leader of the opposition party. “Lots of sound and fury – even a fog machine”, Clinton told 6,000 people at the convention of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in Las Vegas.
“I am here to tell you Hillary Clinton will say anything, do anything, and be anything to get elected president”, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a prime-time speech. She said her father motivates others to achieve more.
The roll call unfolded largely according to plan after a day dominated by unwelcome attention over passages from an eight-year-old Michelle Obama speech that made their way into Melania Trump’s address to the convention, nearly word for word, the night before. I am also a longtime friend and admirer of the Trump family.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a strong critic of Trump’s, offered similar thoughts after Tuesday’s session of the GOP convention. They think she deserved to be tried and convicted for pursuing the public policies she believes to be correct.
Meredith McIver said she felt awful about the controversy – including accusations of plagiarism – that the incident had brought about for Donald Trump’s campaign, for Mrs. Trump and Mrs. Obama. And in an even larger contrast to his supporting role four years ago as Mitt Romney’s keynote speaker, Christie’s focus remained on the candidates and not on himself.
Ryan has been an unenthusiastic endorser of Trump, given their stark differences on issues such as trade and immigration. Mrs. Trump’s remarks were the first of several planned family testimonials aimed at recasting the celebrity showman as a serious-minded family man.
So far, numerous speakers have devoted more time to denouncing presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. But this week’s convention essentially put it on the party’s platform for November. This time, it’s also another opportunity for discord to be heard.
Johnson, like Trump a businessman who entered politics later in life, accused Clinton of lying repeatedly.
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“Our future hangs in the balance”.
