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From Politifact: Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president Thursday in Cleveland, vowing a law and order campaign that will “liberate our citizens from the crime and terrorism and lawlessness that threatens their communities.”.Some of his specific talking points were more accurate than others.
“Donald, you’re a sniveling coward”.
This is a man whose arrogance and ego know no bounds.
Today’s walk-through for Donald Trump and daughter Ivanka at the podium where they will each speak Tonight Was Customary.
“Whatever lie he’s telling, at that minute he believes it … the man is utterly amoral”.
“This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction, terrorism and weakness”, Trump said. The same allies who responded within 24 hours of the 9/11 attacks by invoking Article 5 of NATO’s Washington Treaty and saying that an armed attack against one NATO country is an armed attack against all NATO countries.
Coward. Pathological liar. A boastful and serial philanderer. Utterly amoral. Horrific choice. “Throughout my entire life, I have witnessed his empathy toward others”, Trump said. For the sake of party unity?
Intra-party divisions were sharply on display Wednesday night in a hall that echoed first with cheers for Trump’s fiercest opponent in the primaries, Texas’ Cruz, then thunderous boos from the pro-Trump masses when Cruz wrapped up his speech without endorsing the nominee. They booed him and pounded into him, “Trump!”.
This disappointment is misdirected.
Clinton called on Americans to reject the “dark and divisive” vision Trump laid out for America’s future in his convention speech in Cleveland on Thursday night.
And the derision is misplaced for another important reason.
Trump’s allies were furious with Cruz.
Cruz told his fellow Texans Thursday that, aside from overcoming the family attacks, he needed to see more from Trump’s policy agenda to sway him to vote for his former rival. A preview copy of Cruz’s remarks was released to reporters earlier in the evening. A year ago, she’d announced his candidacy for president. Why would he miss that opportunity?
The good news for Clinton is that the worrywarts were a minority, even among the professional strategists in the meeting, according to one source at the table.
Cruz was given a speaking slot, though he had indicated he wasn’t going to offer an endorsement. And he still refused to endorse.
The remarks by Trump, 70, closed out a four-day convention that underscored his struggle to heal fissures in the Republican Party over his anti-illegal-immigrant rhetoric and concerns about his temperament.
In this election, she said, she hopes that voters do indeed do the right thing – ‘Vote your conscience’.
He needs a post-convention bounce in public opinion polls to remain competitive with Clinton, who will be in the spotlight next week in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention. But coercing people to get on board despite their beliefs is itself not entirely in keeping with democratic principles.
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In a unusual twist of events, Cruz was practically upstaged by Trump near the end of his speech, when the presidential candidate entered the Quicken Loans arena, welcomed with cheers, intertwining with the loud disapproval of the crowd.
