Confidently addressing the finale of his party’s less-than-smooth national convention, the billionaire businessman declared the nation’s problems too staggering to be fixed within the confines of traditional politics. All days of the convention have featured speakers excoriating the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, particularly focusing on the Benghazi attacks and chants of “Lock her up!”
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He’ll continue: “I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end”.
A political novice, he completed the greatest step yet in his improbable rise, accepting the GOP nomination to face Clinton, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state.
Another sign of North Carolina’s must-win status for Republicans: Trump’s son and daughter-in-law were dispatched Thursday morning to meet with the state’s delegation to the Republican National Convention. He refused to say whether he would vote for Trump, who during the primary battles insulted Cruz’s wife, Heidi, for her physical appearance and suggested that his father was linked to late President John F Kennedy’s assassin.
He offered himself as a powerful ally of those who feel Washington has left them behind. “Will I vote for Donald Trump?”.
“He is a man known for a large personality, a colorful style and lots of charisma, and so I guess he was just looking for some balance on the ticket”, he said.
So far the RNC has been all about heated attacks on Hillary Clinton.
“This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction, terrorism and weakness”, he said. Citing recent attacks, Trump said, “an attack on law enforcement is an attack on all Americans”.
The speech will also sound the firing gun on the general election, offering Trump a chance to overcome voters’ concerns about his divisive campaign rhetoric.
“My father has a sense of fairness that touches every conviction he holds”, she said. There are more factions than Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich have ex-wives. What did they think when they read Cruz’s prepared remarks? Not Marco Rubio, not Chris Christie, not Newt Gingrich. And on Wednesday, Trump’s former rival Ted Cruz took the stage, only to be booed off after the Texas senator still declined to endorse Trump. Gingrich attempted to smooth things over.
“After 15 years of wars in the Middle East, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the situation is worse than it has ever been before”, Trump said, though he did not mention that those wars started under Obama’s Republican predecessor, George W. Bush. “I think it was kind of vintage Ted Cruz”. His comments in The New York Times created a new, day-long controversy hours ahead of Trump’s acceptance speech as the Republican presidential nominee.
“If Americans were not scared for their safety before tonight, they are now”, said ABC News’ Martha Raddatz. “Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo”.
He had promised to describe “major, major” tax cuts. Union officials announced Thursday they had won a labor dispute against Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas over union membership. “Every woman in this country should wish they had a man like that”. Trump understands the value of relating to voters.
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Trump raised the stakes in an interview in which he said he would set new conditions before coming to the aid of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies. Her primetime speech elicited repeated applause and much praise from delegates in the arena. Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine emerged as the leading contender, according to two Democrats familiar with the selection process, with an announcement expected as early as Friday.
