Overseas U.S. allies as well as voters at home will be closely watching his Thursday night address, which comes the day after his suggestion that he might not defend America’s North Atlantic Treaty Organisation partners as president.
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Cruz’s speech exposed the deep divisions that remain in the party after the fractious primary.
The billionaire’s eldest daughter Ivanka will introduce her father.
“He is colorblind and gender neutral”, she added, earning the loudest cheers when talking about equal gender pay.
“I heard about Donald Trump’s dark and divisive vision. This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction, terrorism and weakness”, Trump said.
The event was boycotted by many big-name establishment Republicans, such as 2012 nominee Mitt Romney and members of the Bush family that have the party its last two presidents.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, next to his wife, Melania, waves after accepting the GOP party nomination on the last day of the Republican National Convention July 21, 2016, in Cleveland.
Pointing to Trump’s belief that America is in decline and only he can fix it, Clinton argued that Americans are problem-solvers who build bridges not walls.
The convention’s four days were dominated at times by controversies that distracted from Trump’s message.
Re: “Thunderous boos for Cruz for refusing to endorse Trump” [News, July 21]: With reference to Ted Cruz not endorsing Trump, the main question is this: Is there anything Trump could have said or done after Cruz’s promise to endorse that would ethically allow Cruz to withdraw his promise?
Yet, if he gives his endorsement, Trump said “he will not accept it”.
We’re in danger; from ISIS, from terrorism, from immigrants and from his competitor if she happens to win. But, he acknowledged, “certainly the optics are bad”, vis-à-vis Republicans’ treatment of women.
A major theme of the Democratic National Convention will be the idea that “working together we can make a real difference”, said Lewis, a senior advisor for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and communications director during the Bill Clinton’s presidency. “He was implying people shouldn’t vote for Trump”. “I’m really a great father but certain things you do and certain things you don’t. The sort of bullying and braggadocious-ness that come from Trump are something that women naturally recoil at more than men”. But we found plenty of instances where Trump twisted facts or made false claims. “But gender does not, in my mind, define your capacity to do the job”.
Donald Trump has officially accepted the presidential nomination for the U.S. Republican Party on Thursday night, announcing a plan that will “put America first”. “He offered a lot of fear and anger and resentment, but no solutions about anything that he even talked about”, Clinton said at an election rally in Tampa, Florida.
She also applauded Texas Sen.
“I have made billions of dollars in business making deals – now I’m going to make our country rich again”, he said.
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But what about Trump’s comments about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, asked The Atlantic’s Alex Wagner. Among other things, Trump derided Kelly’s efforts in moderating the first GOP debate by suggesting, in crude terms, that she was menstruating. “If Trump wins in this election, and I don’t think he’s going to, but if he wins, he will win because the average American feels like it doesn’t matter what they do”. “I totally agree with you”, Blackburn replied.
