Trump’s Democratic rival, Clinton, was quick to respond, tweeting after the vote: “Donald Trump just became the Republican nominee. Hillary Clinton wants us to forget that she made $21.5 million on 92 speeches”. “GUILTY!” the crowd shouted. Not so for Colorado delegate Kendal Unruh, a leader of the outmaneuvered anti-Trump contingent, who said it’s time to “cancel the convention, stop the sham”, and who warned Trump might run into a “show of displeasure” in his acceptance speech ending the convention Thursday night.
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Paul Manafort said on ABC Wednesday that the meeting, which took place during the FBI’s probe into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, “probably communicated information that was going to be helpful to her” as FBI Director James Comey considered whether to recommend an indictment for the former first lady.
That’s how some delegates to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland are feeling after Donald Trump won the nomination Tuesday.
Trump appeared on video to predict victory in November after being formally nominated. “It is something I will never, ever forget”.
The states will proceeded to alphabetically cast votes for Trump, but some states are expected to pass so that Donald Trump, Jr., can officially put his father over the top from his home state of NY.
Underscoring the problems Trump has faced with USA allies overseas, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Trump threatened United States and world security with his “politics of fear and isolation”.
Party leaders concentrated their fire on Clinton.
“Please excuse me if I’m a little nervous”, Trump said, according to a transcript posted on TIME.
But Democrats were quick to attack and said the speech showed Mr Trump’s team was not ready for prime time.
That made way for the second night of convention speakers.
Trump supporters offered the only defense they can: These sentiments about the value of hard work are so anodyne that anyone could have uttered them, that they could have been original to both speakers because they weren’t particularly original thoughts to begin with.
“Donald Trump has never done anything halfway, least of all as a parent”, she said.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
“I know accountability in the Trump campaign, I know what it’s like to be fired from the Trump campaign”.
Ryan also touted his own agenda, while McConnell pointed to the fight over the Supreme Court with the vacancy opened up by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Party officials are hoping to use the four-day convention, which began on Monday, to smooth out some of his rough edges and present him as a job creator and a strong hand to combat security threats at home and overseas.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
Johnson, like Trump a businessman who entered politics later in life, accused Clinton of lying repeatedly. The former secretary of state leads most opinion polls.
“Our future hangs in the balance”.
National security and Clinton are the two subjects that have most unified Republicans this week. “Florida is the paradise where you vacation, but we all live”.
Mr Trump’s son Donald Junior is due to speak at the Republican convention today before members formally nominate his father as the party’s presidential candidate later this week.
National committeeman and Trump delegate Peter Goldberg said he thinks Trump might address the economy, trade, the military and immigration – possibly clearing up his positions on immigration.
“That risk is a foolish risk we don’t need to take”. “2016 is a change election and that favors Trump”, she says. “We’ve got to come through this thing unified”.
In an interview on Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor” Monday evening, Trump said Kasich should have attended “from the standpoint of honor”. But despite her declining popularity, she just needs to be slightly more likable than Donald Trump in order to win the White House.
Said Merrill, “Where in America do you go where they don’t let you have a vote when you’re supposed to have a vote?”
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Instead, the Trumps pushed the unlikely line that this was simply a surprising coincidence.
