“When I take the oath of office next year, I will restore law and order to our country”. He promised to fix a “rigged” campaign finance system.
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On Wednesday night, Newt Gingrich devoted much of his primetime speech to cataloguing grisly atrocities recently committed by terrorists around the world. “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.
Instead of reaching for inspirational vignettes most nominees use to inspire their nation to greatness, Trump dwelled on the relatives of those killed by undocumented migrants and depicted a violent and risky land. Friday morning Trump spent about six minutes commenting on the speech, calling Cruz’s decision to alter it after it was submitted for vetting “dishonorable”.
“If they do the same job they should get the same pay”, Trump said. The gap between him and Hillary Clinton has narrowed during this period, but only because her support declined in the wake of Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey’s criticism of the handling of her State Department emails.
But just because Trump avoided his usual pitfalls doesn’t mean he delivered the sort of speech that will make many people think of him White House-worthy.
Even so, the address did deliver familiar bromides. “The American people will come first once again”.
The controversy Trump referenced started on Twitter in late March when Trump retweeted a user-generated picture that featured an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz.
“Beginning on January 20, 2017, safety will be restored”, he said, promising to “defeat the barbarians of ISIS” and “liberate our citizens from the crime and terrorism and lawlessness that threatens their communities”.
Republicans have always been the party of free trade, but Trump has said current trade deals have impoverished American workers and wants to renegotiate them or in some cases block them altogether, like President Barack Obama’s signature Trans-Pacific Partnership. I can not feel my legs. Because Donald Trump is going to wipe. “She’s a criminal and should be in jail”, he said, referring to Clinton. She wore another look from her own collection when she joined her siblings as part of the delegation from NY, casting votes to officially make their father the candidate. “Maybe I’ll set up a super PAC if he decides to run [for re-election]”, he said, turning to someone off stage with a question.
Tapping into public angst over recent racially-tinged shootings and seemingly indiscriminate terror attacks, Trump offered a tough-on-crime message that was reminiscent of Richard Nixon’s election-winning strategy in 1968.
“Honestly he may have ruined his political career”, Trump said of Cruz.
Just hours after Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, the Hillary Clinton campaign slammed what it called “dark picture” of the country that Trump had painted during his speech.
On the floor and corridors of the basketball arena hosting the Republican National Convention, in restaurants and bars, hotel lobbies and conference rooms across Cleveland, the talk was of the rise of Donald Trump, whose unlikely presidential candidacy has caused seismic fractures in the Republican Party. Having insulted and frightened non-white voters, with his imprecations against immigrants and Spanish speakers and the naked racism of some of his supporters, Mr Trump must, at the least, win more white votes than his unsuccessful predecessors did.
But not by Trump, and many in the GOP establishment are shaking their heads at the idea of a swaggering billionaire and reality TV star taking over their party as the champion of its discontented base. “This election was handed to us”. Supporters of the Texas senator confronted him. She praised her father as “the people’s nominee” and said he is someone who will fight for the American people.
It remains unclear if that message will be enough to unite a Republican Party riven with doubts over his candidature.
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“We have our candidate”.
