“Now, I think lot of people who aren’t for Trump are hoping that’ll turn around and present himself in a more professional manner”.
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In addition to promoting his own qualifications for the White House, Trump’s speech was aimed at uniting a convention in which the runner-up in the primary campaign refused to endorse him, critical delegates staged a noisy floor fight over the rules and a string of high-profile Republicans boycotted the entire event.
Trump will also offer a searing indictment of Clinton, who was President Barack Obama’s first-term secretary of state, saying the United States is less safe and the world less stable since her time in that office.
“Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country”, he said.
Crime “threatens our way of life” and Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton has left a legacy of “death, destruction and weakness”, he proclaimed.
“And 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 my father”, Cruz said. He again blasted what he called the unfair trade tactics of competitors like China.
Pro-Trump delegates were furious with him. It came after venture capitalist Peter Thiel earlier received applause when he said he was proud to be gay. “With their help and the efforts of Trump supporters and GOP county chairs, we will make Donald Trump our next president”.
Trump will also blame her policies for the rise of Islamic State militants, a situation many Democrats blame on Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, for launching the Iraq war.
Another area of focus was the people Trump said America has forgotten.
Republicans have used their convention to rally loyalists, but fissures have persisted after a brutal primary battle in which Trump defeated 16 rivals.
Trump paused, acknowledging the crowd’s chanting.
He was disappointed that the GOP platform still takes a position against same-sex marriage, but felt that Trump made up for it in his reference to protecting LGBTQ Americans.
Americans, he said, have “lived through one worldwide humiliation after another”.
LISA DESJARDINS: Later, Trump took to Twitter to say: “Ted Cruz got booed off the stage, didn’t honor the pledge to support the party’s nominee”. The Nielsen company said 23.4 million people watched Wednesday night’s session, up from the 21.9 million who watched the penultimate night of the 2012 Republican convention. “Great love in the arena!” “Especially those who are suffering”.
Trump will be introduced by his daughter, Ivanka, who will be charged with humanising her father and trying to appeal to women voters who may still be having second thoughts about presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
This is my seventh United States political convention and I have never seen anything quite like this.
Speaking to the New York Times, Mr Trump said the U.S. would only come to the aid of allies if they fulfilled their obligations to America.
Republicans who have questioned Trump’s grasp of foreign policy reacted with indignation. Sen. “The fact is, he is the nominee of the party”, King said of Trump.
The remarks 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. And a Trump delegate had to be restrained from getting too in the face of Cruz after his speech wrapped. He then proclaimed that “I am your voice” to the American people.
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Jerry Falwell Jr., the son of Virginia’s famous TV evangelist, and the president of Liberty University, called Trump a “blue-collar billionaire”. Underscoring his unorthodox candidacy, Trump doubled down on the hard-line immigration policies that fired up conservatives in the primary but broke with many in his party by promising protections for gays and lesbians.
