At the top of the list: Unifying a fractured party and quieting Americans’ concerns about his preparedness for the presidency. First, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has to be proven unfit to serve as president.
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Trump’s wife, Melania, foreshadowed it all on opening night, noting, “It would not be a Trump contest without excitement and drama”. “The Ohio-based Republican convention might have been expected to give Trump a bump among that state’s voters, yet their dislike of both major-party candidates is translating into unease about the upcoming election”. “Don’t come out on stage if you don’t want to be supportive”. The candidate has provided relatively few, and thin, policy proposals.
Father and daughter took the stage together in the afternoon for an extensive walkthrough, taking turns standing at the podium and staring out into an arena that will be filled with jubilant delegates by evening.
“I love the media”, Trump said with a smile as he tested the microphone.
The southern legislator hopes Trump will hammer home right-of-center principles that support American-made energy, along with specific strategies for “growing the economy and creating jobs”.
“I think he needs to lay out some clear policy views”, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said.
Then he expanded the radius of those he criticized: “Other than a small group of people who have suffered massive and embarrassing losses, the party is VERY united”.
The continual recitation of the facts regarding Clinton and her focus on always putting herself first will, over time, have an impact on voters. He said that as President, the USA would only defend North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies against Russian invasions if they fulfilled their obligations to us. “It’s about risk and change”, said Kaufman, the Republican National Committeeman from MA.
Another woman on the panel said it’s true that Trump is running close in polls in a number of the swing states that will decide the election. “Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it”, Trump boasted and the party delegates took him at his word.
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Trump “is essentially telling Russians/other bad actors” that the United States “is not fully committed to supporting North Atlantic Treaty Organisation alliance”. NY billionaire Donald Trump officially accepted the presidential nomination of the U.S. Republican Party Thursday night on the final day of the Republican National Convention. “It was like playing a sport where you won’t go shake your opponents’ hand when they beat you”.
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Meanwhile, Cruz on Thursday spoke to the Texas delegation, where he was repeatedly pressed and declined to endorse – or even commit to voting for – Trump.
“Vote your conscience”, Cruz said, leading to a chorus of boos.
Cruz was the last Republican to fold his primary campaign, where Trump called him “Lyin’ Ted”, accused Cruz’s father of being with Lee Harvey Oswald before he shot John F. Kennedy, and suggested that Cruz’s wife was unattractive.
Mr Cruz, who was his bitter rival during the primary contests, was booed off the stage by Trump supporters.
“I have made billions of dollars in business making deals – now I’m going to make our country rich again”, he said.
Cruz later defended his decision, saying he was not Trump’s “servile puppy dog”.
Political conventions tend to follow a carefully crafted script. But much like the campaign of its candidate for president, the Republican National Convention has generated some unscripted story lines no one would have predicted.
“There was a time in American history when a real man would have called the other guy out to a duel” for disparagement of his wife, Heidi, Lonegan said.
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Trump’s supporters had to know in their gut at that point that Cruz wasn’t talking about their man. Even if at that point he had said, “and that leader is Donald Trump”, everyone would have known it was a lie.
