“These largely negative views of the candidates come despite heavy Clinton campaign advertising in OH leading up to the Republican Convention and Trump’s efforts to humanize his candidacy with multiple primetime speeches from family members”, David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, said in a statement. Of course, Trump wasn’t Alaska’s first choice. Ted Cruz is the biggest loser.
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Manafort also labeled the most prominent absent family members “part of the past”, presumably its two living ex-presidents, George H.W. Bush and son George W. Bush, and most recent presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and Sen.
John Moller of Juneau is a Cruz delegate.
Trump also reiterated his pledge to slash taxes, which he claimed would cause new companies and new jobs to come roaring back into the country. But Moller says that changed. That was one piece of his conversion.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus spoke at the event, applauded traditional Republican values and called for party unity by saying “let’s stand united as Republicans, let’s get to work to expand our Republican majorities”.
From CNN: Peter Thiel encouraged the GOP to not get distracted by culture wars on stage Thursday night, saluting Donald Trump for not focusing on such things as he made history. NY billionaire Donald Trump officially accepted the presidential nomination of the U.S. Republican Party Thursday night on the final day of the Republican National Convention. U.S. Rep. Bill Flores of Bryan took a pass Thursday on saying whether Cruz’s speech hurt the GOP unification process, saying it’s “up for the people of Texas to decide – about how they feel about what he said and the impact that it has on his political future”.
Democrat Clinton’s top policy adviser, Jake Sullivan, said Trump’s proposal showed he was “temperamentally unfit and fundamentally ill-prepared to be our commander in chief”.
“But I wish he would have at least said, ‘I’m going to support the Republican nominee.’ But he didn’t”, Eledge says. “And to me, Mr. Cruz is a man of principles”.
Even on the final day of the convention, some of the Alaskans still wrestled with their doubts about Trump. “I have seen him fight for his company and now I am seeing him fight for our country”, she said. “Then when I saw somebody tweeted a picture of Melania and a picture of Heidi, who I think, by the way, is a very nice woman and a very lovely woman”.
“I want to thank you for not politicizing this and for waiting until we were ready”, said Patty Sheehan, an Orlando city commissioner. The question drew a resigned sigh. He said illegal immigrants were taking away jobs from USA citizens and in some cases committing crimes. Schlapp also points out that the Trump’s convention ending address will be the “most important presentation he will make in his entire adult life”.
Donald Trump Jr., Tiffany Trump and Eric Trump have spoken to the delegates and the national television audience, sharing stories about their father getting to know the workers who helped build his empire and the encouraging notes he used to write on Tiffany’s report cards. Like delegate Doyle Holmes of Willow.
In a 25-minute speech, the only references Cruz made to the presidential election were those to his own failed campaign and a call for Republicans to “come together and unite in the defense of liberty” to “defeat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election”.
Nationwide polls put the NY mogul, who has never held elected office, nearly neck and neck Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state heavily criticized over an email scandal. “And damn it, if that’s the price, I ain’t going to do it”. That was a boo heard around the world last night.
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Holmes says he booed, too. His high point? Snapping a photo of a favorite celebrity: Fox News host Megyn Kelly.
