Then, Trump sparked more questions about his Oval Office readiness by suggesting in the midst of the convention that the USA might not defend America’s North Atlantic Treaty Organisation partners with him as president.
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“I’m not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father”, Cruz said, “and that pledge was not a blanket commit that if you go and slander and attack Heidi that I’m going to come like a servile puppy dog and say, ‘Thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father'”. “Many have witnessed this violence personally, some have even been its victims”. “Beginning on January 20 of 2017, safety will be restored”. The next president takes office on January 20.
Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump are walking through the final steps for their speeches on Day 4 – the closing moments of the convention.
“Shameful. He should have come out and endorsed Donald Trump tonight”, said Palm Beach County Republican Chairman Michael Barnett. “My message is that things have to change – and they have to change right now”, Trump said.
Even Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus said the pledge is “more than a piece of paper”.
By conventional measures this was a failed political convention that will be remembered for its coarse tone and anti-Clinton chants of “Lock her up!” He said her policies have made America less safe. He promised a “simplified” tax system for the middle class and businesses, fewer regulations and renegotiation of trade deals that he says have put working class Americans at a disadvantage.
He said in last month’s Orlando nightclub attack, “49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered by an Islamic terrorist”.
“I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology, believe me”, he said.
Thiel is gay – a reality that makes for an awkward clash with a party that rejected efforts to moderate its platform’s approach to LGBT issues.
He also spoke about the recent Nice, France truck attack that killed 84 people, and identified ways to battle terrorism. “We all understand it was a mistake, and they owned up to it”.
As he moves into the general election campaign, he’s sticking to the controversial proposals of his primary campaign, including building a wall along the entire U.S. -Mexico border and suspending immigration from nations “compromised by terrorism”. We don’t want surprises, right? Trump was introduced by his oldest daughter, Ivanka, who called her father “the people’s champion”.
Ohioan Brenda White is an independent who said she’s voting Republican for the first time this year.
She touted his experience as a business leader who is “color blind and gender neutral” and said he will fight for equal pay for women.
With the circus of the primaries and Republican National Convention officially over, all eyes are on Philadelphia next week for the Democratic National Convention, where Hillary Clinton is expected to be the first woman in US history to be clinch the presidential nomination. Hai Do was the editor. “The goal here is to unite with those who want to work and win in the fall and to establish a team of supporters who will get the job done”.
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The delegates also greatly praised Trump for his acceptance speech given Thursday to close out the convention at Quicken Loans Arena, the home court of this year’s National Basketball Association champion Cavaliers.
