“Lock her up!”, the crowd chanted in response.
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“This whole thing disgusts me”, Baldasaro said.
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating one of Donald Trump’s most outspoken supporters, a New Hampshire state representative who said this week that Hillary Clinton should be shot for treason. Top Trump aide Paul Manafort said the senator would at least “suggest” he is backing the nominee, while other Republicans said Cruz would argue the importance of keeping Clinton out of the White House.
Reynolds asked voters to chip in because the GOP had “crossed the line”.
Clinton was the target of disparaging speeches on Tuesday night, with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former Trump rival, excoriating her foreign-policy record and statements she made about her handling of State Department emails that the Federal Bureau of Investigation declared untrue.
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump, said in a statement reported by the Post that, “Mr. Trump and the campaign do not agree” that Clinton should be executed. “C’mon. We can make the case that she shouldn’t be elected without jumping the shark”. “What happened to professionalism, manners and humanity in our politicians and citizens?” Wisconsin delegate Jim Geldreich said the stay-on-offense strategy was spot-on.
He then outlined what he called “the facts” against Clinton, savaging her record as USA secretary of state, holding her responsible for the chaos and violence engulfing Libya, and asking whether she is “guilty or not guilty” of being an apologist for Boko Haram in Nigeria.
“That’s not keeping with the best traditions of American politics”.
“If you closed your eyes, you could imagine it being a lot like a witch trial – they were barely one step removed from screaming ‘burn her at the stake, ‘” the email said. Johnny McMahan, 65, a GOP delegate from Arkansas, said he had no problem with a woman being president but that some of his friends felt differently.
“We all want a woman for president, but not Hillary, not this fall”, Lucchese said.
Though assailing the opposing candidate is standard fare at political conventions, this year the attacks have transcended policy positions and become intimately personal.
The FBI recommended earlier this month that Clinton not face criminal charges over her use of the email server.
Trump’s campaign has worked to sow distrust by using vague insinuations against Clinton that are hard to prove or disprove.
The attacks are an echo of the 1990s when conservatives denounced President Bill Clinton as the chief executive dealt with scandal and impeachment.
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Iowa delegate Cecil Stinemetz called Trump “the worst nominee that we have put forward for the Republican Party in the history of the Republican Party” and said he didn’t plan to return to the convention floor the rest of the week. Larry is our main news editor.
