“The convention exists for a reason, and to ignore the will of the delegates in order to preserve a false sense of support for Donald Trump will do even more harm to the party and this week’s proceedings”.
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The Rock Hall issued a statement Tuesday that says although the Rock Hall is an “icon of free speech”, officials discourage “illegal actions that stress our first responders”.
Mrs. Trump also gave a hint of what she might try to do as first lady.
“In writing her handsome speech, Melania’s team of writers took notes on her life’s inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking”, the statement said.
“Tbh [TO BE HONEST], I was more offended by just about every other speech than Melania’s plagiarized paragraphs”, former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau tweeted, referring to the incendiary remarks of other speakers on the night.
“It’s time to take back our country and ‘make America safe again, ‘ ” he said, invoking the night’s slogan.
Among the speakers were several women whose relatives were killed by people in the country illegally, killings they attributed to Obama’s immigration policies. 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. The media and the Democrats needed something to focus on, so they came up with this.
A former top intelligence official says Donald Trump “recognizes the threats we face and is not afraid to call them what they are”.
In an unusual move, Trump is scheduled to appear Monday night to introduce his wife, Melania, who has been largely absent from the campaign trail.
Speaking Monday at a Bloomberg Politics breakfast for reporters, Manafort likened the impact of disruption on images of protesters making it hard for Trump to get into one of his own events in California earlier in the year.
Another voice vote was cast, with the majority obviously in favor of adopting the rules.
The anti-Trump forces wanted to change the party’s nominating rules to allow delegates to support alternative Republican candidates over Trump.
Katherine Jellison, a professor of history at Ohio University, believes that Melania Trump might be something of a quiet First Lady in much the same vein as Jackie Kennedy Onassis was. Despite persistent party divisions, his campaign is confident Republicans will come together behind their shared disdain for Clinton.
So did the mother of one of the Americans killed in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya on Mrs Clinton’s watch as secretary of state. He also tried to blame Hillary Clinton.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose administration has been credited with sharply reducing crime in the city during the 1990s and who oversaw the city’s response to the September 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and killed nearly 3,000 people, gave a highly charged speech slamming Clinton and making the case for Trump. In a matter of weeks, Americans have seen deadly police shootings, a shocking ambush of police in Texas and escalating racial tensions, not to mention a failed coup in Turkey and gruesome Bastille Day attack in Nice, France. Trump would gain the nomination at a time of crisis and tumult at home and overseas, underscored Sunday by the deadly shooting of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is spending about $1 million on TV ads in OH this week, according to Kantar Media’s campaign advertising tracker. They included Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Sen.
Trump has been vague about how he would put the nation on a different course, offering virtually no details of his policy prescriptions despite repeated vows to be tough.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus addresses the start of the first session of the Republican National Convention.
Daughter Ivanka Trump will introduce her father on Thursday, the convention’s final day.
Yet the line-up of speakers and no-shows for the four-night convention was a visual representation of Trump’s struggles to unify Republicans.
Trump’s team insists that by the end of the week, Republicans will plunge into the general election campaign united in their mission to defeat Clinton.
Trump has targeted “do nothing” Republican congressmen almost as much as Democrats in his inflamed rhetoric during the primaries in which he said Washington needs to be overhauled. Typically in both parties, the roll call is heavy with ceremonial flourishes, good cheer and puffery about the virtues of each state.
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Even some of those participating in the convention seemed to be avoiding their party’s nominee. No major clashes were reported between pro- and anti-Trump forces during the two biggest demonstrations on Monday’s schedule or at rallies held in the later afternoon and early evening. “Which means it was freewheeling, rollicking and private”, he said, when asked about his conversation with Trump following the decision.
