The Republican nominee made no mention of his former rival as he read his 75-minute speech from the teleprompters Thursday night, but switched gears the following morning.
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Clinton said tonight their obsession with her ‘was kind of perversely flattering’.
‘It’s kind of hard to believe they spent all that time talking about me and not jobs and education, ‘ she said.
Never in the history of a political convention has a nominee said the country would move forward with scapegoating, Clinton declared.
He also declared that, two days after Cruz was loudly booed at the Republican National Convention for not endorsing the new nominee, he would never accept the Texas senator’s backing. “I saw exactly what his speech was because when you go up to speak you have to give your speech, you know we don’t want surprises”, Trump said. In other words he got up and he added a sentence, which could have been viewed as a nasty thing in terms of what he said because it was implying something, which is wrong but that’s okay.
In what should have been a feel-good victory lap the morning after his thundering acceptance speech, Trump instead defended his decision to retweet an unflattering photo of Cruz’s wife, Heidi, and returned to wondering about possible links between Cruz’s father and President John F. Kennedy’s assassin. They don’t even talk about that.
“His vision of America is one where we Americans are kind of helpless”.
“We’re going to go all the way”, he said.
“Maybe I will set up a super PAC if he decides to run”, Trump said.
‘Is this guy running for president or dictator?’ he asked in another tweet.
Like Clinton did tonight, Sanders threw Cruz’s words back in the GOP nominee’s face. ‘Looks like Ted Cruz was right about one thing.
“He should have done it”, Trump said.
Clinton noted in her remarks that she was in Orlando today, meeting with first responders to the Pulse terror attack.
Trump continued, “And I’m saying it just to clear it up”.
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“No matter what you think of Donald Trump, as a Republican…you have no choice”, he said. At least one Trump supporter shouted “Goldman Sachs” at her, the network said, a reference to her role as a managing director at the investment bank, from which she took a leave of absence during her husband’s campaign.
