Chris Christie turned the Republican National Convention into a kangaroo court session on Tuesday night when he delivered a spirited case against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
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As speakers and delegates at the Republican National Convention lifted their voices with chants of “lock her up” on Tuesday, Sen.
“We didn’t disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States – the facts of her life and her career disqualify her”.
Christie went beyond the email investigation that could have led to criminal charges against Clinton, but for the judgment of FBI Director James Comey, to include foreign policy controversies in building his case. But no slogan seems to have captured the hearts of the delegates quite like “lock her up”.
Earlier in the day, Christie played down criticism over Melania Trump’s Monday night convention speech that lifted passages from remarks first lady Michelle Obama gave eight years ago.
Hillary Clinton today asked American voters to make sure that her rival Donald Trump would never set his foot in the Oval Office of the White House, hours a fter the controversial billionaire was endorsed by the Republican party to be its presidential nominee.
“This is a movement”, he declared.
“Here’s what we are going to do”.
Delegates elected by constituents of every county nationwide, as well as party elites chosen by each party (super delegates), come together every nominating convention to officially nominate the party’s candidate for president and vice president.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Clinton is unreliable. “We have a man who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens”, Christie said of Trump. Another former candidate, Ben Carson, linked her to Lucifer. At the beginning, he admitted that the road to the GOP nomination here in Cleveland wasn’t an easy one. Marco Rubio. Convention officials counted all 28 Alaskan delegates for Trump, citing a discrepancy in state party rules, and overruled the delegation when it demanded a fresh count.
“Have we had our arguments this year?”
Pompeo also shared with The DC his meeting with one of the Benghazi heroes John Tiegen, Pompeo said, “I just had a chance to be handed a dog tag to commemorate the four who were killed that night”.
The House speaker condemned the way Democrats “talk down to the rest of America” and declared that “2016 is the year America moves on”.
Republicans vow that in a Trump administration, the USA will reclaim its historic role in the world. “And we can not allow it. The American People are exhausted of hearing about the bounty of government while the cost of caring for a family or meeting daily expenses grows out of reach”, he said.
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“I believe that the contest between dissatisfied and angered America and well-off and indifferent America will become a distinctive feature of the upcoming elections”, the head of the State Duma International Affairs Committee said. “I’ve seen it time and time again”.
