A protester from Code Pink briefly interrupted Trump’s speech Thursday night, unfurling a banner that read “Build bridges, not walls”.
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The margin is opposite among Republicans, among whom two-thirds want the next president to oppose stricter gun laws.
Ted Cruz speaks at the United States Republican party’s national convention in Cleveland.
Trump will formally accept the Republican presidential nomination Thursday with a speech that will blame Hillary Clinton for “bad instincts and bad judgment”. But an undeterred, Trump kept on raising issues and topics which many considered as controversial that found its resonance with the members of the Republican party.
Hillary Clinton on Friday cast Donald Trump’s nomination speech as arrogant and his entire Republican National Convention as dark and depressing, in her first response following the week-long event.
Former Trump advisor Roger Stone said Mr Kasich was a “pathetic stoner” who is “acting like a child”.
“We have terrorists coming over our border, infiltrating our community and causing massive destruction and mayhem”, Arpaio said.
To the “millions of people who were watching the convention, we think it became very clear to everybody that Donald Trump has been very magnanimous in his outreach program”, Manafort said.
Confidently addressing the finale of his party’s less-than-smooth national convention, the billionaire businessman declared the nation’s problems too staggering to be fixed within the confines of traditional politics.
Trump and his aides have been unable to put to rest questions about whether they can mount a sophisticated campaign to take on Clinton’s well-oiled operation.
Clinton also slammed Trump’s proclamation, “I’m with you”, writing, “Not included: women, African Americans, LGBT people, Muslims, Latinos, immigrants…”
“I can tell you when you stand on principles, sometimes you stand alone”, the one-time presidential contender added.
Still, he set aside much of his usual bravado.
As the crowd, fiercely opposed to Clinton, broke into chants of: “Lock her up”, he waved them off, saying: “Let’s defeat her in November”.
The gold podium was brought out to the stage before Ivanka Trump walked out to “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles to introduce her father.
“This is a data exchange agreement that campaigns have signed with the RNC”, he said in a television interview on Wednesday. “On Jan. 21 of 2017, the day after I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced”.
Trump’s speech was consistant with the theme of many of his previous speeches, where he painted the current state of the country as bleak, risky and constantly under attack, things only he as president can fix.
Leading Republicans and world leaders reacted swiftly Thursday after the comments were published. Rather than present himself as a magnanimous victor and a steady hand, he picked a fresh fight with former rival Ohio Gov. John Kasich and refused to commit to defending a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally if it were attacked – casting aside a central tenet of USA foreign policy for over 60 years.
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Still, Michelson said, Trump ended up playing to his base of white middle-class voters, while failing to effectively reach out to women and minorities.
