Pro-gay Republicans have held Donald Trump up as the most supportive nominee in GOP history, but at this week’s Republican National Convention, their excitement is clashing with the stark realization that their party is still pushing a very different message.
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Yet he also accused her of “terrible, bad crimes” and said her greatest achievement may have been avoiding prison for her use of a private email and personal server as secretary of state.
Trump reiterated his plan to build “a great border wall to stop illegal immigration”, and linked Clinton’s calls for immigration reform to crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.
If the sentiments at the end of this four-day political extravaganza are mixed, perhaps it’s no wonder.
It was Ivanka Trump’s night.
Throughout the Cleveland convention Republicans have rallied around chants of “lock her up”.
Mr Trump promoted himself as the law and order candidate – in the U.S. and in the world, promising the crowd that the country would “defeat the barbarians of ISIS”.
But afterward, Gonzalez said he realized that Trump might be able to win without the backing of traditional conservatives.
“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. “There’s no choice whatsoever”. On Wednesday, Texas Senator and former rival Ted Cruz publicly refused to endorse Trump, a move some newspapers deemed a “civil war”.
Not only did Cruz essentially blow up the convention floor and show that there are still deep divisions in a party that is desperately trying to project unity, but he ended up overshadowing what has been the best speech of the convention so far – the one delivered by vice presidential nominee and potential 2020 rival Mike Pence.
In an interview published Thursday by The New York Times, Donald Trump said he might tell North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries that can’t pay their dues “Congratulations, you will be defending yourself”.
“I don’t want his endorsement”, he added.
Yaudas, who also supported Cruz in the primary, didn’t see Cruz’s speech as a slap.
He will tell the convention, “I am your voice”, according to a fuller draft of the speech obtained by Politico and a Democratic opposition group.
Ivanka, a senior executive in her father’s business, the Trump Organization, noted that the company has more female than male executives. Because when you go up to speak, you have to give your speech. Members of the Obama administration have been advocating for Kaine, who was considered for the vice presidential nomination by President Barack Obama in 2008, one of the people said.
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But she is still not on board the “Trump train”. “I thought it drew the lines very clearly and I thought it appealed to every American of every background”, said former House speaker Newt Gingrich.
