It’s the kind of pitch that will likely bounce off Mr Trump’s blue-collar supporters, but it could help sway the suburban conservatives who are uneasy with the Republican nominee’s populist rhetoric. Further, in the last three presidential elections, the victor has earned a majority of the national popular vote. “That is who we are”. In an interview this month with the Chicago Sun-Times, Webb said that Trump’s “bias” against Hispanics and Muslims, among other groups, spurred him to action. Perhaps the country is in such a frenzy of disgust and despair that voters will be receptive to Trumpist fear-mongering, in which case she – and we – are in trouble.
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I guess they hoped the mere thought of such a spectacle would scare Cruz and get him back in line.
And while it’s possible that these candidates will affect who wins in 2016, their more likely impact is that their combined national vote share will prevent the eventual victor – Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton – from garnering a majority of the popular vote and thereby, undermining the perceived legitimacy of his or her presidency. Perhaps. But there are two sides to every story.
Clinton will accept the Democratic nomination and deliver one of the biggest speeches of her political life – on par with declaring in China that “women’s rights are human rights” and more important than her 2008 concession speech in which she declared she’d placed “18 million cracks” in the glass ceiling. They shouldn’t be beaten over the head either way. Um, so would that be voting for President Trump?
For instance, according to Nate Silver’s July 25, “polls only” forecast, Clinton was projected to earn about 46 percent of the popular vote and Trump would earn about 45 percent. The third supporting Johnson can not all be wishing the country goes down the drain.
As for the release of Trump’s tax returns, which the candidate said were still tied up with an IRS audit, Trump said he still could be make them public before the election. “Make America great again”. Talk-show host Glenn Beck has been very vocal in his opposition. And he said, by clear implication, that the GOP nominee is decidedly not in that camp.
On Twitter, Trump waved off Obama’s depiction of the country.
After the GOP’s presidential nominating process wrapped up in May, the New York Daily News ran a cover with a cartoon elephant in a casket. He refused to either endorse Trump – in violation of the fealty pledge he was eager to foist on Trump earlier in the campaign – and he refused to darken the door at the convention. The Christian leader James Dobson is a member of Trump’s evangelical advisory board.
If Trump should lose, the Republican Party will be looking to remake itself. Leave the getting even to the interns. But until then, attacking each other and destroying the GOP over reasonable differences is just going to take us faster down that path.
It can be puzzling how someone as controversial as Mr Donald Trump could rise to political power in the United States.
Were either recount to fall toward Clinton, instead of affirming the initial votes for Trump, it is tough not to see a national partisan controversy occurring, and a less than democratically satisfying outcome happening.
Watching Monday’s opening of the 2016 Democratic National Convention, I can honestly say that I enjoyed hearing the discussions about our heritage and how far our nation has come since we first attained our independence. In 1996, I felt otherwise. There were plenty of newsworthy moments during the four-day event and below, Graduate School of Political Management’s Interim Director Lara Brown discusses her top takeaways and what they mean for the future of the Trump campaign and Republican Party. Especially, as a recovering attorney, I cannot bear the thought of Clinton appointing Supreme Court justices and transforming the court to the left. “I think I did him a big favour”.
And, as usual, for all his slippery assertions of the USA having gone wrong – and it’s all Barack and Hillary’s fault – he offered no substantive proposals for change beyond his usual I’ll-fix-it-and-I’ll-be-great bluster.
One could continue on through the convention’s reality-show lineup of D-minus-list celebrities spewing weird conspiracy theories and oily tributes to Trump; GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pretending they’re still the party’s actual leaders; and that unholy group no Republican National Convention has been without for 40 years – the blackface-minstrel Blacks, whose role is to delight the virtually all-White GOP conventioneers by denouncing all those Black Americans not in the convention hall.
Pence says Trump would appoint conservatives to the Supreme Court who would send the Roe v. Wade abortion ruling to the “ash heap of history”. However. where’s the equivalent for Clinton? Just don’t ask me to stop retweeting DeepDrumpf.
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Rachel is the editor for intellectualconservative.com and an attorney.
