The third night of the Republican National Convention was the craziest yet. Heidi Cruz was escorted out of the convention hall following her husband’s speech. But he’s heaping criticism on Democrat Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration. While Trump has energized many Republican voters, others remain deeply skeptical of his unorthodox candidacy and divisive policy proposals. “Governor Rick Perry, Governor Chris Christie, Governor Scott Walker, Dr Ben Carson, Senator Marco Rubio and Senator Ted Cruz have all responded to Donald Trump’s generosity”, he said. “I’m confident that what begins in Cleveland will end in the White House”.
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“The Mystery of Meredith McIver”: it sounds like the title of a badly written novel, the same kind of formulaic prose to be found in Donald Trump’s books or, perhaps, in his wife’s speeches.
Thursday’s theme is “Make America One Again”.
A Trump Organization staffer identified herself on Wednesday as the person responsible for plagiarism in Melania’s Trump convention speech and offered her resignation.
“With the right leadership we can tone down some of the rhetoric, that’s why I have a big struggle with Donald Trump at this point because how do you take back some of the statements that he’s made?”
Mr Trump, normally so keen to show off his “beautiful ladies”, has kept this ghost writer hauntingly silent.
Cruz was harshly critical of Trump in the waning weeks of their primary battle, calling the businessman a “pathological liar” and “utterly amoral”. Another son, Eric Trump, addressed the convention on Wednesday. Last month, the New York Times revealed that educational materials touted by Trump University as being chock full of Trump’s “personal wisdom” actually contained passages lifted verbatim from a real estate manual published by Success magazine in 1995. She has been working for the Trump Organization since September 2001, according to a Speakerpedia biography.
The GOP vice presidential nominee stepped up in an electric atmosphere in the Quicken Loans Arena shortly after Texas Sen.
“America can not continue to succeed as the unchallenged nation in the world if we’re going to hand it over to people [immigrants] who don’t understand our civilization or culture”, King said. “Donald Trump speaks to Americans in a different way than politicians have in the past”.
Trump ultimately setlled on Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate.
The campaign hoped for better imagery Wednesday.
After the conclusion of the speech, Trump joined Pence on the stage before the rest of Pence’s family greeted him.
Ms McIver said Ms Trump had read passages from Mrs Obama’s speech, delivered when Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency, over the phone to her as examples of what she wanted to tell the convention.
Trump embraced the swirling attention.
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Trump, who had largely stayed out of the conversation surrounding his wife’s speech, finally broke his silence on Twitter, falsely claiming the speech to have gotten “more publicity than any in the history of politics”.
