For the next four days, Trump and his allies will bash Hillary Clinton, tout his plans to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall and beef up the U.S. military, and try to bring the country together. “How could she do this to any American family?”
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As Republicans spilled into Cleveland on Monday to nominate Donald Trump as their presidential candidate, 2012 nominee Mitt Romney had an equally crucial task: Entertaining his grandchildren at his lakeside summer house in New Hampshire.
After a smoke-machine-aided entrance, Melania Trump spoke of her upbringing in Slovenia and talked about her husband’s role as a father to maker her case that Trump should be the 45th president.
The band wrote on Twitter, “An unauthorized use at the Republican Convention against our wishes”. She descended the escalator with Trump when he announced his presidential bid at Trump Tower past year, but his daughter Ivanka introduced him that day, a spouse-like role she has frequently assumed throughout the campaign.
Noting a string of shootings and rising racial tensions, President Barack Obama on Sunday called for both parties to avoid “overheated” rhetoric during their convention.
“It’s a little ripe for the news media to suddenly find how pure they are”, Gingrich said. But two passages from her speech strikingly resembled words spoken by Michelle Obama in 2008.
Working from the theme “Make America Safe Again”, the Republican Party also served up Rudy Giuliani to remind conventioneers that America was always under the threat a terrorist attack, and Rep. Steve King, who basically told Chris Hayes on MSNBC’s pre-game show that white people’s contribution to civilization outstripped those made by “all these other categories of people you’re talking about”.
“Melania Trump understood very well that her speech was going to be viewed by over 35 million Americans”, Manafort said.
Priebus says Kasich is a “fantastic governor” and one of the best in the country.
Priebus spoke to reporters at a Bloomberg breakfast.
Melania Trump insists she’s her own person, more than window dressing in her husband Donald Trump’s run for the White House.
Asked about Priebus’ comments, Manafort told the AP, “Frankly, if I knew somebody did it I would fire them too”.
He said, “There were a few words on it, but they’re not words that were unique words”.
Last night’s bid to underscore Trump’s family values will be followed tonight with some of the GOP’s heaviest hitters – hoping to unite key establishment figures behind Trump, even as a last-ditch effort to dump the brash billionaire from the ticket fizzled out yesterday.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus welcomed delegates with a brief acknowledgement of the “troubling times” swirling outside. However, Trump said in a Monday night interview with Fox News that his convention speech Thursday would discuss a “major, major” tax cut, immigration, getting rid of burdensome regulations and taking care of veterans.
He acknowledged the controversy was a “distraction” but said he expected the convention to get back on message Tuesday.
The response made no acknowledgement of the lifted parts from the First Lady’s speech, which set off a firestorm of criticism following the first night of the GOP convention in Cleveland. The statement didn’t mention Mrs. Obama. He did not explain how he arrived at the 93 percent figure.
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Christie predicted no one would be talking about the issue after Tuesday. The candidate’s wife is rarely heard from on the campaign trail, and this was her first big hello to voters.
