Calling this week’s Republican National Convention “memorable” seems like an understatement.
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An unrepentant Baldasaro has refused to apologize, even as the Secret Service began to investigate to determine whether the hot-headed state legislator was harmless or should be taken out of circulation.
Charges of plagiarism are big news, apparently.
And that was just the first day.
Trump’s rout of a highly credentialed field of 16 other candidates in the GOP primary revealed a chasm between the party’s passionate grass roots and the elites who have run its presidential selection process for decades.
The speech, which addressed many important topics for women, was crucial for the Trump campaign, given the candidate’s dismal support among female voters.
But Trump’s nomination speech, like every Trump speech, was completely devoid of solutions to the many, many problems Trump said was wrong with America.
“Folks, a lot of us are political people”, Trump said.
Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin says it’s “bizarre” that Trump is being praised.
Nothing unifies like a common foe.
Hillary Clinton’s senior adviser John Podesta dismissed the speech as painting “a dark picture of an America in decline” and “his answer – more fear, more division, more anger, more hate – was a reminder” that Mr Trump “is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be President”. Some headliners hardly mentioned their own nominee, still sounding reluctant to fully embrace him.
“I think the party is either in a major transition or in the throes of self-destruction”, said Randy Corporon, a Colorado delegate and tea party leader attending his first party convention.
“Hillary for Prison”, read a sign Monday from Florida delegate Henry Allen.
The new Republican view is a populist view.
The 2012 GOP autopsy is dead. Underscoring his unorthodox candidacy, Trump reasserted the hard-line immigration policies that fired up conservatives in the primary but broke with many in his party by expressing support for gays and lesbians. Still, if someone with the popularity of Patrick or Perry ran, he or she would make a formidable opponent. While terrorism and crime have always been central to Trump’s campaign message, the onslaught of grisly, tragic stories featured in the convention’s programming marked a radical departure from recent precedent.
Cruz made the political gamble of his life.
Trump’s elder daughter, Ivanka, also sought to reach out to Democrats and moderates, extolling him as a champion of women in the workplace, and a leader who would “take on the bold and worthy fights, who will be unafraid to set lofty goals and relentless in his determination to achieve them”.
A delegate shows support for Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Wednesday. “Let us go forth from here and do that work”.
“I have no doubt that Donald Trump would be better for LGBT Americans”, Barron said in an interview with CNN this week.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, both former prosecutors, devoted large portions of their primetime speeches to convicting Clinton for an array of perceived crimes – including failing to provide adequate security at the Benghazi compound and then misleading the families of the victims as to the cause of the attack.
“My message is things have to change and they have to change right now”, Trump declared. His stem-winder started strong but lost a lot of oomph as it carried on – for 75 minutes. In Cleveland, Trump’s acceptance of the Republican nomination capped his improbable takeover of the GOP, a party that plunges into the general election united in opposition to Clinton but still torn over Trump.
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While nomination speeches are traditionally optimistic and personal, full of hope and revelations that cast candidates in the best possible light for voters, Trump sounded like a wartime president, using the word “threat” seven times and promising to “defeat the barbarians of IS”. Utah, Colorado, Washington and Iowa. A handful came up with clever excuses to stay away from Cleveland.
