A lot has happened since then – not the least of which, her husband, Donald Trump, became the party’s official nominee for president.
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Trump claimed that Obama had allowed for too much crime and lawlessness in his tenure.
“But Hillary Clinton’s legacy does not have to be America’s legacy”.
Trump presented a bleak view of America under siege from illegal immigrants, threatened by Islamic State militants, hindered by crumbling infrastructure and weakened by unfair trade deals and race-related violence.
“I think Wisconsin is going to be one of his toughest states because it’s a Democrat state in a presidential year”, Thompson said.
But Trump, as if to drive the point home, said it not once, but twice.
Throughout the day, the Clinton campaign and other Democratic groups sent out statements denouncing various Trump polices as ineffectual, divisive or simply wrong-headed, and accusing him of distorting Clinton’s records. They also cited Republican infighting over Trump, including the refusal of many high-profile Republicans to endorse the party’s new standard-bearer. Trump nimbly responded, “Let’s defeat her in November, ” choosing to save “Crooked Hillary” for another day. “These largely negative views of the candidates come despite heavy Clinton campaign advertising in OH leading up to the Republican Convention and Trump’s efforts to humanize his candidacy with multiple primetime speeches from family members”, David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, said in a statement. As CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell noted, more members of the Trump family spoke at the confab than sitting members of the U.S. Senate. Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, said only Trump was being honest about how “fake culture wars” distract from America’s economic decline. Trump joined the crowd in its chant of “U-S-A” after he “humbly and gratefully”, accepted the nomination, the Washington Post reports. Later, as Trump was speaking, a well-known protester interrupted the nominee ― a startling failure of both security and logistics.
Toward the end of his remarks, Trump said Americas is “a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers” being led by “censors, critics, and cynics”. “I have seen him fight for his employees, I have seen him fight for his company, and now I am seeing him fight for our country”.
Mr Donald Trump is planning to sketch out a vision of a nation hovering on the brink of disaster as he presents himself as the only leader who can protect Americans and fix a suffering economy. “Great love in the arena!”
Trump was introduced by his daughter Ivanka, who announced a childcare policy proposal that the campaign had not mentioned before. Ahead of Trump’s address, Republicans seemed excited to get get through the night and bring an at-times rocky four days to a close. “If he gives it, I will not accept it”, Trump said.
Republicans who have questioned Trump’s grasp of foreign policy reacted with indignation. Sen. Ted Cruz, who was booed off the stage for failing to endorse Trump. When Fair appeared to accidentally bump the officer with the prop, he said, “Oh, my God, I’m sorry”, and when a street performer complained that his protest was getting in the way of his business enterprise, Fair handed him a bill.
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The week started with a dustup between convention leaders and delegates who wanted to change the party’s rules to derail Trump’s nomination. “Instead he committed an unbelievable act of political suicide with a self-centered, self-promoting oratory”, said Richard Fraiman, an alternate delegate from Lincoln who voted for Ohio Gov. John Kasich in the primary, but now supports Trump.
