If we look at the Democratic and Republican parties as they stand right now, it’s easy to see why many Republicans are feeling so dour about their party’s prospects. He was just repeating what he’d read in a very reliable publication, the National Enquirer, Trump insisted Friday: “This was a magazine that, frankly, in many respects, should be very respected”.
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“I never went into this with a guaranteed outcome”, Unruh said.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has pulled almost even with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for the first time since May, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken over the course of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week.
Trump’s rout of a highly credentialed field of 16 candidates in the Republican primary contest revealed a chasm between the party’s passionate grass roots and the elites who have run its presidential selection process for decades. But how? He’ll tell us after he’s elected, he says. What are your thoughts on Donald Trump’s convention speech?
Pat Smith delivered an emotional speech about losing her son in Benghazi.
He also addressed the unflattering photo he posted to Twitter of Cruz’s wife, Heidi, by saying she was “the best thing he has got going” for him.
Trump’s acceptance speech – a forceful appeal to a frightened electorate that described a country spiraling into dystopian mayhem – capped a four-day Republican convention in which murder and violence often seemed like an inescapable theme.
While Thiel and Barron are a small minority in the larger LGBT community, a voting block that supported President Barack Obama in record numbers in 2012, Trump is trying to make inroads with a non-traditional constituency for Republicans by brandishing his anti-ISIS credentials.
Pointing to Trump’s belief that America is in decline and only he can fix it, Clinton argued that Americans are problem-solvers who build bridges not walls.
In typical Trump fashion, he cast himself as the only one who could solve America’s problems. His kids are inarguably impressive, and if you’re unsure about voting for Trump, they might have been his best character witnesses.
Ted Cruz came, he saw, he flopped.
Bill Pozzi, a Texas delegate who had previously been supportive of Cruz, said he was “really mad” at the senator for not endorsing Trump, but said he was unsure whether he would support the senator in the future. Cruz is booed out of the hall even by his own Texas delegates. “I don’t do anything unless I win”, Trump insisted.
“Heidi is a good person”, Trump said, adding that the senator “has good intellect, but doesn’t know how to use it”. (Presumably, Mr Trump’s shoulders are yuge.) “To my sisters Mary Anne and Elizabeth, my brother Robert and my late brother Fred, I will always give you my love”.
The ugly and highly personal feud between the top two finishers in the Republican primaries, dormant since Cruz ended his campaign in early May, reignited in dramatic fashion Wednesday at a convention meant to heal the bruised party. With that, he summed up both the paradox and the power of his campaign – a billionaire who made common cause with struggling Americans alienated from the system, or at least a portion of them. Predictably, his words set off alarms in European capitals and served as an unwanted reminder of his recklessness and his political bewilderment.
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His pick for vice president, current IN governor Mike Pence, has said working mothers emotionally harm their children.
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But most voters find Mr Trump’s troublemaking and offensiveness off-putting; 67% say he does not have the “temperament or character” to be an “effective president”.
