Chris Christie on Tuesday evening showed that his enthusiasm for Donald Trump has not been dimmed by the New Jersey governor being passed over as the GOP candidate’s VP pick in favor of Indiana’s Gov. Mike Pence.
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In a speech at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, Christie barely mentioned the man he was there to support, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Christie’s address capped off a series of similar speeches that at times bashed President Obama’s policies and at others focused on the presumptive Democratic nominee.
He said “93 percent of the speech was unlike anything Michelle Obama said and some of the things she said eight years ago aren’t groundbreaking things for wives to say about their husbands and families”. “Lock her up!” the delegates chanted.
Playing off the crowd at one point, Christie replied, “Alright, alright, we’re getting there”.
“We can not afford more of the same”, Honkala told Truthdig.
Clinton visited the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees’ conference, which was held at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Libya, he said, has an economy in ruins, “death and violence in the streets and ISIS now dominating the country” after “she was the chief engineer of our disastrous overthrow of Qaddafi”. The FBI Director said that was untrue. “She lied about it over and over and over again”.
“If what they’re doing in the convention is evidence of how they will convey the message between now and November 8, I’m very optimistic”, Anderson said, noting a “stark contrast” between presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her party and “the kind of changes that Donald Trump has been talking about”.
“It is time to come together and make sure that Donald Trump is the next president of the United States”, he concluded.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus responded to Clinton’s speech to AFSCME members in a press release. He was the 2012 convention’s keynote speaker when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was nominated for president.
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Christie also told the gathering that changing the leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency, long a target of Republicans concerned about over regulation, would be a top priority for Trump should he win in November.
