“I love children”, he responded at the time.
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Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at the final session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio on July 21, 2016.
Trump is to be introduced by his eldest daughter, Ivanka, one of his most polished and effective advocates.
This convention has been notable for the awkward lukewarmness with which party leaders have treated Trump.
It was a long speech but Trump hit on a lot of good points, Utah Rep. Rob Bishops said.
Foreigners from terror-linked countries would be banned, a wall will be built on the Mexican border and trade deals would be ripped up and renegotiated. Trump shouted throughout as he read off a teleprompter, showing few flashes of humor or even a smile.
He softened his rhetoric on issues like his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the country.
But his core strategy is rooted not only in exploiting the fears of Americans but in heightening them.
“So if you want to hear the corporate spin, the carefully crafted lies and the media myths, the Democrats are holding their convention next week”. His speech was more disciplined, less bombastic and certainly more organized than just about any I have seen him give in the past year. By the way, under President Barack Obama immigration is down, killings of police officers is down, and illegal immigration is down compared to previous presidents. Neither Sabato nor his underwear could be reached for comment.
Trump’s wife, Melania, foreshadowed it all on opening night, noting, “It would not be a Trump contest without excitement and drama”.
On the global stage, Trump said the American people have been repeatedly humiliated throughout seven years of the Obama administration- and laid blame for the world’s challenges at the feat of his former secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, his Democratic rival.
But most of those gathered said they supported Trump for his own merits, not only due to their disapproval of Clinton or disappointment in President Barack Obama’s administration. His delivery was not presidential, rather it was harsh and indignant.
Between defining chants of “U-S-A” and “Trump, Trump, Trump” the mogul-turned-TV-star-turned-politico cast himself as the “law and order candidate” and vowed to champion “people who work hard but no longer have a voice”. That statement caused numerous foreign policy experts to almost choke on their breakfast scones and led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation officials to release a statement assuring that solidarity is key to the military alliance’s success.
Trump didn’t budge from his combative stance on immigration as he wrapped up the week’s Republican National Convention. The invite-only event, billed as a thank you reception for supporters and staff at Trump’s Cleveland hotel, at first looked like it would simply consist of Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, making perfunctory remarks saluting the convention and pledging to win in November.
He cherry-picked statistics to suggest that the nation is in the midst of a wave of criminality at a moment of historically low crime numbers.
“The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction overseas – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them”, Trump will say. No evidence to support that assurance was provided.
Wrapping up his speech with a con man’s swagger, Trump punched the Republican Party and knocked out its last bit of relevancy.
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“The biggest problems I had with it were there wasn’t any detail to some of his ideas or his plans”, said Laura Koerner, a delegate from Fair Oaks Ranch.
