The shooter, Omar Mateen, reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS before killing 49 people and injuring dozens more in Orlando.
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Yet the NY billionaire has often spoken effusively about his friendships with gay people while avoiding anti-gay rhetoric that many other GOP candidates have embraced.
“The last thing we need is somebody running for president who talks trash about America”, Clinton said of the Republican nominee’s lengthy address in Cleveland.
Nationwide polls suggest the NY mogul, who has never held elected office, is nearly neck and neck Clinton, the former secretary of state mired in an email scandal yet propelled by ardent fundraisers.
As Trump put the final touches on his speech and did a walk-though of the stage set-up, the Republican nominee took to Twitter to proclaim the convention a success.
As the crowd, fiercely opposed to Mrs Clinton, broke out in its usual chant of “lock her up”, he declared: “Let’s defeat her in November”.
In the months after that, he managed to constantly make inflammatory remarks against women, Muslims, Mexicans, foreign countries, belittle his opponents by calling them “Lying Ted”, “Little Marco” and “Crooked Hillary”, and still plowed through all the controversies that ensued.
“See, now, if I don’t win, I’m going to blame Mike, right?” “I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves”.
Democrats are set to meet in Philadelphia next week for their convention to tap Hillary Clinton and her VP pick, Senator and former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine. Unlike Hillary Clinton, who supports same-sex marriage, Trump has said he’d nominate Supreme Court justices who might overturn the ruling legalizing it nationwide.
In an appeal to people shaken by violence at home and around the world, Trump promised that under his presidency, “safety will be restored”.
Trump wants to build a wall along the USA border with Mexico, ban Muslims from war-torn Middle Eastern countries and renegotiate worldwide trade agreements.
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As the crowd chanted: “Lock her up” for her handling of US foreign policy, Trump waved them off and said: “Let’s defeat her in November”.
Ted Cruz just got done speaking at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. “The irresponsible rhetoric of our President, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color, has made America a more unsafe”. But that goal seemed guaranteed to go unfulfilled following Cruz’s stubborn defiance on the convention stage.
“After 15 years of wars in the Middle East, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the situation is worse than it has ever been before”.
“This, in turn, will create millions of jobs”, he says.
Offering lofty promises but few specifics, he said he would slash taxes, boost infrastructure spending and rescue children struggling in failing schools.
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Trump also vowed to be the voice of the “forgotten men and women” of the country. In the acronym Trump used, the Q stands for queer, questioning or both.
