NY billionaire Donald Trump has officially accepted the Republican party presidential nomination, pledging to restore “law and order” to the USA and lead the party back to the White House.
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Trump also embraced the “we.”
NY businessman Mr Trump, 70, will hope to allay party tensions and rally both Republican leaders and the millions of Americans tuning in for the address.
A lot has been made of Texas Sen.
Trump talked of his opposition to global trade deals that have been highly popular within his party, and USA involvement in Mideast conflicts that began under a Republican president.
Trump’s wife, Melania, foreshadowed it all on opening night, noting, “It would not be a Trump contest without excitement and drama”.
Trump’s daughter Ivanka introduced her father before the speech. “I have visited the laid-off factory workers and the communities crushed by our disgusting and unfair trade deals”, Trump said. Trump spoke to the “forgotten men and women” who he said no longer have a voice in a rigged political system run by “censors” and “cynics”. The number of Americans who say they would be proud to have him be president is up seven points to 39 percent and now 46 percent of Americans say he’s in touch with their problems in daily life.
Other than a small group of people who have suffered massive and embarrassing losses, the party is VERY united.
It is also the case that Trump holds a quirky ideology that combines Wall Street and populist flavors, a mix not seen in a nominee in recent decades. As the convention’s final night began, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County vouched for Trump’s hard-line credentials on immigration.
The speech painted a grim view of the USA economy and world affairs under President Barack Obama, and Trump presented himself as uniquely equipped to lead the nation in a “moment of crisis”.
Trump also argued that the USA had lost its standing in the world, and promised to address the issue. But with questions about his temperament and readiness to be president, Trump has but one way to win, and that was on display Thursday night. About the same number of non-Trump GOP primary supporters say they aren’t backing Trump. No outside institution has been more important to maintenance of the Republican coalition and the conservative movement as it now exists than Fox News.
Democrat Clinton’s top policy adviser, Jake Sullivan, said Trump’s proposal showed he was “temperamentally unfit and fundamentally ill-prepared to be our commander in chief”.
This is not the first time Hillary for America has used innovative online tools to clarify the differences between their candidate and the Republican nominee. “I’m going to vote for Mike Pence”, he said, pausing for effect.
“Like other demagogues in American history, Donald Trump targets the most weak and vulnerable members of society – in this case, undocumented immigrants, impoverished people – and labels them criminals, a threat to the social order”.
But Trump is betting that what they want is change, and that voters’ desire for a new course will overcome the demographic momentum that has swamped the last two Republican nominees.
The convention’s four days were dominated at times by controversies that distracted from Trump’s message. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) addressed the convention.
The delegates responded with angry boos, and Cruz backer and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli escorted Heidi Cruz off the convention floor as she was heckled by Trump delegates.
But Trump appeared to dispute that on Friday morning, saying Cruz went off-script at the convention.
A Cruz aide said one of Trump’s advisers had reached out to the senator’s team shortly before the speech in hopes of getting a last-minute commitment.
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When the convention was gavelled in on Monday, it didn’t take long for tensions over Donald Trump’s nomination to bubble to the surface. He dominated each of his closest challengers, who one by one quit the race, leaving him the only candidate for the Party Convention.
