Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the vice presidential nominee, gave a conservative speech that nearly all Republicans could applaud. “I might not support him”, she said, “but how can you vote for her?” “How great are our police, and how great is Cleveland?” he declared as the woman was escorted from the convention. Trump said, prompting some of the loudest applause of the night. He also vowed to protect gays and lesbians from violence and oppression, a pledge that was greeted with applause from the crowd.But at every turn, Trump drew sharp contrasts with Clinton, casting her as both unqualified for the presidency and too tied to Washington elites to understand voters’ struggles. “Iraq was seeing a reduction in violence”, Trump said.
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Donald Trump will vow to restore law and order to the U.S. if elected president, making his case for why Americans should choose him over Democrat Hillary Clinton in a speech accepting the Republican Party’s nomination.
The billionaire real estate mogul will also cast himself as a champion for blue-collar workers and the middle class, arguing that by putting presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the White House, economic strife would grow. “Her bad instinct and her bad judgment”. “This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction, terrorism, and weakness”, he said. He was introduced by his eldest daughter Ivanka, who promised her father would be a president for all people, not just the rich and well-connected. There were several chants of “build the wall” and “lock her up!” and even one of “help is on the way” – a reference to Dick Cheney’s 2000 convention speech. “She is their puppet, and they pull the strings”.
When it was over, Mr Trump was joined on stage by family members as balloons cascaded from above and confetti blew around the arena.
The crowd’s enthusiasm in the hall occasionally boiled over, interrupting the real-estate magnate.
Trump paused, acknowledging the crowd’s chanting.
The day’s demonstrations started when a few dozen people holding banners printed with a red-brick design formed a human wall to mock Donald Trump’s plan to seal off the Mexican border.
Mr Donald Trump is planning to sketch out a vision of a nation hovering on the brink of disaster as he presents himself as the only leader who can protect Americans and fix a suffering economy. “And his answer – more fear, more division, more anger, more hate – was yet another reminder that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be President of the United States”, the Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said in a statement. America is better than this.
Trump, a wealthy NY real estate developer, has drawn the ire of many Americans with proposals that include building a wall along the US-Mexico border and restricting immigration from Muslim-dominated countries. Next week in Philadelphia, Democrats will focus on issues, not anger.
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Trump’s team has suggested Minnesota is one of the blue states they will try to put in play come November, but there’s been scant evidence of the kind of campaign presence he would need to pull it off in a place that hasn’t gone for a Republican presidential candidate since 1972.
