Clinton accused Trump of offering a “dark and divisive vision” beyond what he’s said in the past. Later in the week, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who dropped out of the nomination race in May, refused to endorse Trump in a prime-time speech. “And resentment but no solutions about anything that he even talked about”, she said. A CNN snap poll of viewers of the speech said 57 percent had a “very positive reaction” to the address and 18 percent a somewhat positive reaction, while 24 percent said it had a negative effect.
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CLEVELAND-Donald John Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday night (Friday in Manila) with an unusually vehement appeal to Americans who feel their country spiraling out of control, and yearn for a leader they feel will take aggressive, even extreme, actions to protect them. The statements included agreeing the national government should do everything within its power to extinguish radical Islamic terrorism, support the nation’s troops both overseas and once they return home and to return the power of Washington, D.C. back to state and local governments.
“It’s about building bridges not walls between people”, Clinton said.
Trump said he knew what Cruz was going to speak.
Trump took positions in conflict with traditional Republican policies. He would penalize companies that outsource jobs and then export their foreign-made products back into the United States. “We will never sign bad trade deals”, Trump thundered.
Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, Trump’s campaign co-chair in NY and an unsuccessful candidate for governor in 2010, said he would caution Trump Jr. not to run. I continue to believe that Cruz never expected the Manafort-generated backlash that erupted in the room when he uttered his “conscience” line.
“I don’t know his father”. He blamed her for the rise of Islamic State militants and blasted her willingness to accept thousands of Syrian refugees.
Hillary Clinton and the Democrats plan to use next week’s convention to appeal to every American to work together to chart the course for the nation, ex-Clinton advisor Ann Lewis said Friday.
“I consider it (the Ted Cruz speech) to be a victory for Donald Trump and could help unite the party. We created one of the most successful conventions in the history of conventions”, he said.
Party conventions are partly meant to introduce the candidate to the country, and nominees tend to get a boost in opinion polls afterward.
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“I just don’t want them running for political office, because somebody’s got to stay behind and run the business”.
