Ted Cruz, who earned scorn from the Republican Party when he encouraged attendees of the Republican National Convention to vote their conscience in November while refusing to endorse nominee Donald Trump.
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“Americans watching this address tonight have seen the recent images of violence in our streets and the chaos in our communities”.
Two headlines on the week, and some speeches. I have a message for all of you: “the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end”, he said. “Beginning on January 20th 2017, safety will be restored”. Also unfortunately, Donald Trump has in the past called for a boycott of Macy’s over the chain’s views on immigration and border control. “As a mother myself, of three young children, I know how hard it is to work while raising a family”, she said to the crowd in Cleveland. She said her father is a man who will fight for the struggling middle class. The senator who is believed to be considering another presidential bid in 2020 drew heavy boos from Trump delegates and undermined the efforts of convention planners to project Republican unity in the wake of Trump’s primary victory. And much of it was available to the press and public hours before he delivered it.
Trump’s final address, a seminal moment for the nominee and the Republican Party that he now leads, could act to counter some of the negative narrative from the convention. That was perhaps in reaction to the speech given on Monday night by Trump’s wife Melania, who was accused of plagiarism when she repeated lines from a 2008 speech by Michelle Obama, Obama’s wife.
Trump said policies pursued by Clinton in Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria had made a bad situation worse.
Anti-Trump Republicans also continually disrupted a convention that felt vastly different than the tightly controlled coronations of past years.
“Don’t come out on stage if you don’t want to endorse”, Eric Trump told NBC.
“What?” the other delegate countered, “Divide the party?” “That is why Hillary Clinton’s message is that things will never change”.
Mr Trump launched a fierce attack on Hillary Clinton, describing her as a puppet being propped up by “big business, elite media and major donors”.
“The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction overseas – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them”.
A shouting, glowering Trump painted a hellish picture of America as a place of economic devastation and mortal fear. “There can be no prosperity without law and order”.
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Trump grinned as the crowd chanted “Build the wall” after one of his many lengthy attacks on undocumented immigrants. A third told Cruz to “Stop spinning it!”
