Cruz, the USA senator who came in second to Trump in the race for the Republican nomination after a bitter campaign, was booed by delegates at the Cleveland convention on Wednesday night when he refused to endorse Trump in a high-profile speech. Americans widely see special interests – in particularly wealthy Americans and large corporations – as exerting undue power of government and the economy.
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Donald Trump accused Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of a legacy of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness” as U.S. secretary of state and vowed to be tough on crime and illegal immigrants in a speech on Thursday accepting the Republican presidential nomination. “It is an easy decision to support Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton”, said David Lane, who heads the American Renewal Project, which mobilizes conservative pastors and hosts rallies in battleground states.
“Other than a small group of people who have suffered massive and embarrassing losses, the party is VERY united”, Trump said. Jon Stewart taking over the desk at the Late Show With Stephen Colbert to talk about the election, call Trump “an angry groundhog” and take down the Republican party’s nominee.
America’s political and economic system is rigged by special interests: This argument is likely to draw some of the broadest agreement of anything Trump says. Trump wrote on Twitter.
Three-quarters of Americans felt “positive” about Donald Trump’s nomination acceptance speech, according to a snap poll. I’m a capital D, Cuban American Democrat, a progressive pragmatist that is allergic to political piety or opportunism, which is why I’ve always resented the way the GOP thinks it speaks for all Cuban exiles. Among them was Randall Dunning, an alternate delegate from Garland who called Trump’s speech “phenomenal”.
Many in the Republican establishment have been upset with his free-wheeling style, frequent insults to rivals and controversial policy proposals such as imposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country and building a wall along the border with Mexico.
This convention has been notable for the awkward lukewarmness with which party leaders have treated Trump.
Still, Trump’s campaign invited Cruz to speak – as a headliner, no less.
“I didn’t start anything with the wife”, Trump said of the attack ads, which he retweeted, that featured an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz. He did say he would not vote for Clinton. Mr. Popularity in the Senate wasn’t winning that contest in Quicken Loans Arena either.
Of the Orlando attack on the LGBT community, Trump appeared to comment off-script: “No good, and we’re gonna stop it”.
He tried hard Thursday night, declaring himself “the law and order candidate”. The Trump kids glared icily at the stage as ‘Trump! But he put the blame on policy failures squarely on Clinton. The invite-only event, billed as a thank you reception for supporters and staff at Trump’s Cleveland hotel at first looked like it would simply consist of Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, making perfunctory remarks saluting the convention and pledging to win in November. “Instead, we must choose to Believe In America.” he said.
“This week we’re having some real anguished discussions”.
The party that once stood by those principles is now officially led by a presidential candidate who is staunchly opposed to massive trade deals, deeply skeptical of both war and a global US military presence, and who did not mention the name of the 40th USA president, a GOP icon and father of a modern conservative era that ended Thursday night in Cleveland. Add to that the absurd Green Eggs and Ham filibuster to the fact that I don’t agree with him on any policy points and I’m allergic to the man.
Pence isn’t the only one who seems enamored. In his convention speech, he mentioned Trump only three times.
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“Maybe I’ll set up a super PAC if he decides to run”, Trump said.
