He said the “Lock Her Up!” chant punctuating speeches at the conventions “probably reflects the attitude of a lot of people in America”.
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“But it’s not like my lifetime dream is to be vice president of the United States”, Christie said in an interview with CNN’s Jamie Gangel. Rewarded with a delicious target – Hillary Clinton – the simultaneously freewheeling and focused political marksman New Jersey first elected seven years ago was back.
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Just like Christie, though, these aggrieved parents barely – if ever – mentioned Trump, instead speaking tearfully of their losses and how a “Crooked Hillary” White House would spawn the same kinds of tragedies.
On a night supposedly devoted to Republican nominee Donald Trump’s plan to “make America work again”, it was New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s crowd-sourced prosecution of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton that got the Republican National Convention repeatedly to their feet.
Each time, delegates responded with boisterous chants of “guilty”.
But others have piled on.
“She lied about her emails”.
Republicans maintain Clinton broke the law by sending classified information on her private email server.
“You’re damn right”, Flynn said.
Christie, a former federal prosecutor, ran through a familiar list of Republican talking points, such as her handling of the Benghazi attack in 2012 and her email scandal. But it is a bad sign for the next four years even if Trump loses.
In the highlight of the night, Christie turned Quicken Loans Arena into a courtroom as he branded Hillary Clinton a liar who coddled tyrants, terrorists and American enemies. Carson said. “Think about that”.
Clinton wrote a college thesis about Alinsky and has said she agreed with some of his opinions on social change, but disagreed with his view that the system could only be changed from the outside. Even some Clinton haters say the vitriol has gone too far.
Republicans may be split over whether to support Donald Trump, the brash billionaire whom the Republican Party elevated to its presidential nominee on Tuesday, and who has consistently blasted Clinton as “Crooked Hillary”.
Roe said on the Stigall Show that he doesn’t “take what [Christie] has to say with any meaning”. “What happened to professionalism, manners and humanity in our politicians and citizens?”
But attacking Clinton may be the most effective tactic with polls showing high unfavorable ratings for both candidates.
Before Christie was in the running to be Trump’s running mate, he had been considered a top contender for the job of US attorney general in a Trump administration.
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Manafort told reporters at a convention briefing that anger was not the tone of the convention but acknowledged it “may be an undertone”. “She was so desperate for Chinese cash, she promised to oppose the Buy American provision in the stimulus bill in exchange for the cash to finance a huge expansion of government spending”, said Christie. They have been insisting that we not talk about it, that we not understand it, that we take counsel from – indeed, we be dictated policy by – the Muslim Brotherhood, who are partnering with them. Think what you will of Hillary Clinton as a potential president, there’s a nasty mood here when it comes to her. You see it in the slogans, the T-shirts, the buttons and the speeches.
