“Of course, every American has a unique identity”, Thiel said.
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Ivanka Trump is calling her father “the people’s nominee”.
But whether Trump succeeds more broadly in the election will depend on grim calculations: that voters see the country as broken and beaten, and that they will reject Trump’s rival as corrupt, criminal, or worse. His nominating event has been consumed by a plagiarism charge, unusually harsh criticism of Clinton, and Texas Sen. It offered him a chance to soothe divisions in both the country as a whole and his party, where tensions were exposed Wednesday by Ted Cruz’s refusal to endorse Trump. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN that he “totally” disagrees with Trump’s suggestion that US support could be conditional.
Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, made the biggest strides toward that goal.
The acceptance speech by Trump, 70, closed out a four-day convention that underscored his struggle to heal fissures in the Republican Party over his anti-illegal-immigrant rhetoric and concerns about his temperament.
His address, at least in prepared form, barely touches on the issue of Republican disunity that plagued the 2016 convention – culminating in Cruz’s dramatic speech Wednesday.
Father and daughter took the stage together in the afternoon for an extensive walkthrough, taking turns standing at the podium and staring out into an arena that will be filled with jubilant delegates by evening.
“When I take the oath of office next year, I will restore law and order to our country”, he will say.
A newspaper in the Italian town where Luciano Pavarotti (loo-chee-AH’-noh pah-vah-RAH’-tee) lived says the late tenor’s loved ones are unhappy that Donald Trump’s campaign has played one of his signature arias, Nessun Dorma.
“I think he needs to lay out some clear policy views”, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said. “If I heard “We must unite” one more time I was going to pull my hair out”.
Trump is expected to stick with some of his most contentious proposals, including his call for building a wall on the Mexican border. “Beginning on January 20, 2017, safety will be restored”, Trump will say.
“We will guarantee those who serve this country will be able to visit the doctor or hospital of their choice without waiting in line or dying”, he said.
Republican Donald Trump swept to his strongest fundraising month of the presidential election in June, pulling $26.7 million directly into his campaign as he tapped a fervent base of supporters for the millions of dollars in small donations he will need for an expensive and bitter general-election fight.
His remarks will also be closely watched overseas, where there is significant concern about the prospect of a Trump presidency, exacerbated by a New York Times interview Wednesday in which he cast doubt on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation security guarantees.
Trump said his plan will put America First.
He said he’ll create the “best intelligence gathering operation in the world”.
Trump used the opportunity to trash Democratic presumptive nominee Hilary Clinton, whose “bad instincts” he said were responsible for problems around the world.
Trump hasn’t run a single ad since wrapping up the GOP primary and is just two points behind Clinton nationally now.
A new poll shows that not even having the Republican convention in Cleveland can get Donald Trump a lead over Hillary Clinton in Ohio.
This, a Trump top aide remarked, is now the “party of Trump”.
CLEVELAND (AP) – The GOP chairman has a new description for the Democratic Party. But that goal seemed guaranteed to go unfulfilled following Cruz’s stubborn defiance on the convention stage.
Tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel, meanwhile, made history by becoming the first platform speaker ever to tell the Republican National Convention that he was proud to be gay.
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Speaking with reporters Thursday, Walker reiterated that during a debate in Cleveland last August, he pledged to support the nominee and is endorsing Trump because he meant what he said.
