“You’ve got to go for Trump”.
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“I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology”, Trump said. Unsuccessful were Rep. Bill Miller of NY in 1964, former Rep. Jack Kemp of NY in 1996 and Ryan in 2012.
“Who would have believed that when we started this journey on June 16th of last year we – and I say “we” because we are a team – would have received nearly 14 million votes, the most in the history of the Republican Party”, he said, “and that the Republican Party would get 60 percent more votes than it received four years ago”.
“I’m not angry, I’m not frustrated”.
If Republican delegates gathered in Cleveland to nominate Trump were caught off-guard, they didn’t show it.
Turning to his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Trump asked, “Are you allowed to set up a super PAC, Mike, if you are the president to fight somebody?”
Trump doubled down on his immigration policy. It really felt like he was playing on the fact that we have these anxieties and these fears of what’s going on and what the news is portraying the world as.
In his convention acceptance speech, Trump painted a dire portrait of a nation wracked by crime and people who have given up work.
The little guy just needs to catch some Z’s!
By the time the balloons came cascading down to the tune of “All Right Now” by the English rock band Free, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan took the stage to officially christen Trump as the party’s nominee, most of the arena was empty.
Trump made his entrance with patriotic music playing in the background and a crowd chanting “Trump, Trump” after his eldest daughter, Ivanka, introduced him. On the floor Thursday, a man in an orange jumpsuit circulated the floor. “The FBI is certainly suspect these days after what they just did with Hillary Clinton”.
Below it were three alleged crimes.
They also cited Republican infighting over Trump, including the refusal of many high-profile Republicans to endorse the party’s new standard-bearer. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was repeatedly booed.
Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump gives two thumbs up as he arrives to speak during the final session at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, US.
“T$3 here was a picture on the front page of the National Enquirer, which does have credibility”, Trump said, falsely contending the magazine is careful not to run false reports because they could be sued.
Clinton senior adviser John Podesta dismissed the speech as painting “a dark picture of an America in decline” and called it a reminder that Mr Trump “is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the United States”. “We feel a sense of betrayal”, Wilson said.
“Betrayal is a good word”, Ireland joined in. “I swear if you were to look at what the U.S. Senate and Congress have done since January 2015. you would not know that the Republicans were in charge”. As host of the Republican National Convention, it was a city prepared to handle any problem.
Cruz may not have directly responded to Trump or the Enquirer back in spring, a move that the Donald somehow finds suspicious.
“Then when I saw somebody tweeted a picture of Melania and a picture of Heidi who I think, by way, is a very nice woman and a very attractive woman”, said Trump.
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“It’s also a prelude to reaching the goal that unites us all when this party, and better still this country, will know what it’s like to win again”, she said.
