A political novice, Trump completed the greatest step yet in his improbable rise, accepting the GOP nomination to face Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state, in the fall election. “Reducing taxes will cause new companies and new jobs to come roaring back into our country”.
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“People don’t feel safe in their neighborhoods”.
Laying out his case against Clinton, he denounced nation-building policies that were actually put in place to some extent by George W Bush, without mentioning by name the Republican president who launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Trump said policies pursued by Clinton in Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria had made a bad situation worse.
“This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton”, he said in Thurday’s primetime speech.
Trump’s speech was largely focused on “law and order”.
Trump also provided a lengthy defense of his injection of Cruz’s wife, Heidi, and father, Rafael, into the primaries this year, retweeting an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz and giving voice to a conspiracy theory that Rafael Cruz was involved in the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.
Trump needed a strong performance on Thursday night to improve his chances of getting a boost in opinion polls as Democrats prepare for their own, more scripted convention next week in Philadelphia.
In a contest that pits two politicians viewed as unfavourable by large segments of the American people, Trump also accused Clinton, 68, of being the puppet of big business, elite media and major donors who want to preserve the current political system.
Clinton tweeted after the speech Trump’s quote “I’m with you”, then added, “Not included: women, African Americans, LGBT people, Muslims, Latinos, immigrants”.
He vowed to defeat the “barbarians of ISIS” and recounted the terror attacks in France, Orlando and San Bernardino.
“I don’t think Donald Trump, quite frankly, is disciplined enough to keep delivering the same message that is handed to him”, Koppel said.
In a direct appeal to Americans shaken by a summer of violence at home and around the world, Trump promised that if he takes office in January, “safety will be restored”.
“I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end”.
He pledged as president to restore a sense of public safety, strictly curb immigration and save the nation from Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton’s record of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness”.
In his speech, Trump did not repeat comments made to The New York Times that the United States might abandon its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military commitments if he were president.
Trump then turned to justifying how, on the eve of the IN primary that proved to be Cruz’s last stand, he touted a story IN the National Enquirer tabloid that printed a photo that purported to show Cruz’s father, Rafael, with Lee Harvey Oswald.
“I don’t see him winning anyway, frankly”.
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The first three days of this week’s convention bordered on chaos, starting with a plagiarism charge involving his wife Melania Trump’s speech and moving on to Texas Sen.
