“I’m not going to get into criticizing or attacking Donald Trump, but I’ll give you this response: I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father”, he said.
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But in a nod to a broader swath of Americans voting in November, he vowed to protect gays and lesbians from violence and oppression, and said he would ensure that young people in predominantly black cities “have as much of a right to live out their dreams as any other child in America”.
Trump may be a billionaire, but there’s something working-class striver about him, and he has always had the common touch.
“As a Republican, it is so nice to hear you cheering for what I just said”, he responded. “Beginning on January 20th 2017, safety will be restored”.
Ehrlich also said she believed that Trump, especially in an election cycle with an anti-establishment sentiment, will ultimately triumph.
Foreigners from terror-linked countries would be banned, a wall will be built on the Mexican border and trade deals would be ripped up and renegotiated.
“I am watching, I am listening”, Cruz said.
Former Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ twitter account questioned Trump’s assertion that he would tackle the country’s problems “alone”, rather than together with Congress. “When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, effort and excellence”. Family values, after all, are the mantra of the Republican party.
“Maybe it’s the developer in him”, Ivanka said Thursday night, “but Donald Trump can not stand to see empty main streets and boarded-up factories”, conjuring a gratifying image of a larger-than-life dealmaker firing up the cement mixers and laying steel.
This, a Trump top aide remarked, is now the “party of Trump”.
Cruz won his first election to the Senate with more than 56 percent of the vote, and he won the primary by a similar margin.
Sichan Siv, an alternate delegate who took the place of Gov. Greg Abbott, who was recovering from serious burns and unable to attend the convention, is a former official from both Bush administrations, including as ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush.
Indeed, Trump was so lazy that he couldn’t even be bothered to arrange for competent speechwriting assistance for his wife, Melania Trump, resulting in an embarrassing plagiarism scandal that’s overshadowed the convention.
“This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction and weakness”, Trump said. “Ted did say we need to unite the party”.
For those officials within the GOP, Cruz’s lack of an endorsement and the harshly negative reaction he received may provide an opening to run another Republican against him. Broadly speaking, Clinton can pick between a 1964 strategy and a 2012 strategy. “Honestly, he may have ruined his political career”. They appear to have been right in the short term: Cruz’s favorability with Republican and Republican-leaning voters plummeted after his speech, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Monday.
It remains unclear if that message will be enough to unite a Republican Party riven with doubts over his candidature.
But it wasn’t that long ago Cruz was singing the praises of Trump.
Delegates booed Cruz because they knew immediately that the phrase “vote your conscience” meant “anybody but Trump”.
Warming up the crowd before Trump took to the stage Friday, his daughter Ivanka tried to soften her father’s image.
She added: “You stood up and defended your wife and dad but it’s bigger than that now”. We will be a country of generosity and warmth.
In office, Trump promised to “put America first”.
“Tonight is really one of the defining moments probably of his life and he’s taking it very, very seriously”, he said.
Castigating “globalism” as a rotten policy, he declared, “Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo”.
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Truth be told, what we confront is a rancid presidential campaign.
