Donald Trump “humbly and gratefully” accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday night, passing a critical threshold for a months-long showdown with presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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The vindictive victory lap laid bare Trump’s simmering anger at Cruz, who brought drama to Quicken Loans Arena on Wednesday when he began a speech to cheers and ended it by garnering a raucous chorus of boos after he refused to endorse the man who had bested him.
“When you have my father in your corner, you will never again have to worry about being let down”, Ivanka Trump told the American people in her speech.
Speaking at a Texas delegation breakfast on Thursday, a party activist reminded Cruz he signed a pledge to back the GOP presidential nominee, The New York Post reports.
The audience in Cleveland broke into chants of “build that wall” when Trump talked about immigration.
Mr Trump declared the nation’s problems too big to be fixed within the confines of traditional politics. He said he would avoid multinational trade deals but instead pursue agreements with individual countries.
In an interview with the New York Times, Trump made it crystal clear: He is risky – to America, and to its allies.
Trump has said that he supports “equal pay for equal work”, but he also once told a female supporter in New Hampshire who was anxious about equal pay, “You’re gonna make the same if you do as good a job”.
“After 15 years of wars in the Middle East, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the situation is worse than it has ever been before”, he said.
“After four years of Hillary Clinton, what do we have?” he said.
The former Minnesota state auditor calls Trump a moderate who doesn’t dwell on social issues that turn off many Democrats and some independents.
“This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction and weakness”. The outbursts were encouraged by an obviously angry Trump at the back of the convention, fist-pumping as delegates heaped scorn on Cruz. He vowed to defeat “the barbarians of ISIS”, the acronym for Islamic State.
“I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end”. The next president takes office on January 20.
He was introduced by his daughter Ivanka, who announced a childcare policy proposal that the campaign had not mentioned before. “That pledge was not a blanket commitment – that if you go and slander and attack Heidi, that I’m going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say, “Thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father”. “He will fight for equal pay for equal work and I will fight for this too, right alongside of him”. “I might not support him”, she said, “but how can you vote for her?”
Trump’s speech was generally well received by members of the Texas delegation, even some Cruz loyalists.
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In another dramatic twist, Trump chose to step on Cruz’s moment in the sun by entering the arena before the Texan had finished speaking.
