These promises reflect a departure from policies emphasized by Republican leaders and put Trump closer to that of Hillary Clinton than others in his party.
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One of Trump’s five children, Ivanka was chosen to introduce her father, who then officially accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.
Trump said he watched on television from NY as his oldest son Donald Jr., 38, cast the vote on Tuesday that officially granted him the Republican nomination, capping an unconventional campaign for the real-estate developer and former reality television show star.
Trump said that he considered not letting Cruz speak at the convention after reviewing his speech, but decided against it.
“It’s a great thing”, said Kris Beach, 63, of Port Charlotte, Florida, referring to Trump moving the party in a more socially liberal direction. In fact, just after the Cruz controversy The New York Times published an interview with Trump in which he undercut USA commitments to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation by saying that the USA would only come to the aid of allies if they have “fulfilled their obligations to us” – words that were immediately disavowed by senior members of the USA foreign policy establishment, including those from the GOP.
“I have a message for all of you”, he said. “What difference does it make?” He promised to work “so hard” and vowed his campaign was “not going to disappear”, even though he has no plans to campaign this weekend and no events on his schedule for next week.
In a statement issued by the campaign, Meredith McIver took the blame but made it clear that Mrs. Trump knew the passages were from the first lady’s speech.
The more than hour-long speech was strikingly dark for a celebratory event and nearly entirely lacking in specific policy details.
“Beginning on 20 January, 2017, safety will be restored”.
Later, he said: “I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves”. Mr Trump shouted throughout as he read off a teleprompter, showing few flashes of humour or even a smile.
In his speech, televised to tens of millions of Americans watching the party’s quadrennial pageant at home, Mr Trump said that the country was facing “a moment of crisis”, with attacks on police and “terrorism in our cities” threatening “our very way of life”. America is better than this.
Mr Trump accused Mrs Clinton, his Democratic rival, of utterly lacking the good judgment to serve in the White House and as the military’s commander in chief.
He shed his taxpayer-funded security detail the same day though he never formally ended his bid for the White House.
The announcement of Clinton’s pick could come as early as Friday in Florida, a crucial general election battleground state.
Kaine, 58, appeared to be the favorite for her choice, according to two Democrats, who both cautioned that Clinton has not made a decision and could change direction.
But many GOP voters at the Republican National Convention this week saw the real estate mogul quite differently: as the man who could save the Republican Party by making it more socially liberal and inclusive.
Organised under the Republican Hindu Coalition, an Indian American lobby group launched late past year, prominent supporters of Trump hosted Newt Gingrich, a former speaker of the US House, and Abhay Patel, Republican candidate for US Senate from Louisiana, for a breakfast during the RNC. Republican disunity was on display the previous night when Trump’s primary rival, Ted Cruz, stopped far short of endorsing Trump and drew loud boos.
It was necessarily more non-partisan than traditional Republican speeches.
Trump said Sanders’ supporters would redirect their support to his movement because he too is opposed to bad trade deals that undermine the country’s middle class.
“When a secretary of state illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can’t see her crime, puts our country at risk, lies about it in every different form and faces no outcome, I know that corruption has reached a level like never before in our country”.
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Sanders last week acknowledged Clinton as the presumptive Democratic nominee and said at a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, that he meant to vote for her in November. After four years of Hillary Clinton, what do we have? Clinton is, if anything, disciplined. “That’s not a democracy, my friends”.
