Donald Trump’s wife Melania rips off Michelle Obama’s speech from 2008

“Thank you very much”. This kindness is not always noted, but it is there for all to see.

“I want him to be inclusive of all people”, Hobson said.

In an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer earlier in the day, Melania Trump indicated she wrote the speech her self “with a little help”. She stuck close to the script, delivering her comments from a teleprompter.

“We’re going to win so big”, before going on to deliver a brief one-sentence introduction to “the next first lady., my wife, an unbelievable mother, and an incredible woman, Melania Trump”.

Cheers and yells filled the convention floor in Cleveland on Monday, as simmering divisions among thousands of Republican delegates spilled out into the open.

He said he and the party would win “big” in the November general elections. “I don’t understand why the campaign doesn’t just own it and say people borrow phrases, that’s what happened, and move on”, Cuomo said.

“We’re trustees from every single congressional district in the country, and we weren’t heard today”, said Moody. “It includes Hispanics and African-Americans and Asians and the poor and the middle class”.

“I doubt Melania meant to plagiariaze FLOTUS, but her speechwriter has some explaining to do”, he said on Twitter. He will never, ever give up.

“He’s tough when he has to be, but he’s also kind and fair and caring”, Ms Trump said, describing her husband as “intensely loyal” to family, friends, employees and the country.

“This is, once again, an example of when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton, how she seeks out to demean her and take her down”. “We need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow”.

Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, said to cheers on the opening night of the Republican National Convention. “Not when 93 percent of the speech is completely different than Michelle Obama’s speech”.

The convention is expected to wrap up Thursday with Trump’s acceptance speech. But after efforts failed in the rules committee last week, the anti-Trump forces pushed for a floor vote, a fight that came to a head Monday.

At first it appeared the convention was headed for a roll call vote on the rules, but convention chair, Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack, reported that while nine states, a sufficient number, had requested it, three had withdrawn, thus squelching the effort. TV pundits scrambled to give Melania Trump the benefit of the doubt without outright calling it plagiarism.

United States representative Steve Womack of Arkansas tries to restore order in the Republican National Convention.

Still, there was a silent protest, of sorts, in the many GOP luminaries who are avoiding the convention stage or Cleveland altogether, wary of being linked to a man whose proposals and temperament have sparked an identity crisis within the party.

A US Secret Service Agent (L) stops Donald Trump supporters from running onstage with a Trump banner.

Boxing Promoter Don King is now not on the list of speakers at this year’s Republican National Convention, but he is still supporting Donald Trump, saying the public has “so much resentment, that they have chosen a leader of that resentment”.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich was among many top Republican office holders who stayed away from the convention, maintaining as he did in the presidential primaries that Trump lacks the temperament to be president.