Twitter reacts swiftly to Donald Trump’s acceptance speech

The New York businessman’s speech on the final night of the party national convention capped a remarkable rise for the man written off 13 months ago when he declared his candidacy.

The rally at the Florida State Fairgrounds, part of a two-day swing through the crucial battleground state, offered voters Clinton’s first full rebuttal to this week’s convention in Cleveland, where chants of “Lock Her Up!” were commonplace. He did this by melding a familiar GOP message of law and order with a new trio of issues – restricting immigration, crafting better trade deals, and approaching interventions overseas less cavalierly – that blows up the Republican Party that won a majority at the presidential level just once in the last quarter century. The absence of violence is the high point of the week and a testament to the hard work of law enforcement agencies who took their jobs seriously. “I am your voice”, he thundered.

So he took his speech and you’re bound by that speech.

His speech comes a day after party discord was laid bare.

How about leadership? Trump indicated it’s no sure thing that we’d honor our treaty obligation to defend any NATO member attacked by, say, Russia.

The speech carried few specific proposals beyond his oft-repeated promises to build a wall along the USA border with Mexico and impose an open-ended ban on immigrants from “any nation that has been compromised by terrorism”. The highlight of the second night was New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s blistering indictment of Clinton over her private email server, and an odd tangent by Ben Carson, who accused Clinton of admiring a historical figure who had praised Lucifer.

And you know, he’ll come and endorse over the next little while. “Beginning on January 20, 2017, safety will be restored”, Trump will reportedly state in his speech.

Donald Trump has accused Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of a legacy of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness” as U.S. secretary of state and vowed to be tough on crime and illegal immigrants as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination.

At times, the speech was drowned out by the cheering crowds in the arena of the Republican National Convention. I was 13 years old at the time and that launched my life-long obsession with politics.

He would roll back federal regulations that he said cost the country $2 trillion a year, providing new wealth that will allow an upsurge in spending to fix roads, bridges, airports and tunnels. They gave me his speech. “Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo”. “As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect”.

“He never had a chance”, said Mr Trump.

He [Trump] offered a lot of fear and anger and resentment but no solution to anything he even talked about.

Others thought differently. Congressman Trent Franks from Arizona, on the convention floor, standing near his delegation, described the speech as “the best he has ever done”. And I don’t think they showed that it was GQ. I think he’s a lovely guy.

On Wednesday night, Trump’s last major rival during the bitterly fought Republican primary battle, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, was booed off the stage for refusing to endorse Trump and urging Republicans instead to “vote your conscience”. “Those are not the values that made this a great country”.

Creating jobs, building durable and lasting things, making decisions with the input of everyone from carpenters and forklift operators on up – it need not be said that Hillary Clinton has never come close to acquiring this kind of roll-up-your-sleeves, straight-from-the-site knowledge of the real economy. As a cure-all for these ills, and the many others he detailed in the draft, he was to present a simple and straightforward solution: his election to the Oval Office.

Then, Trump sparked more questions about his Oval Office readiness by suggesting in the midst of the convention that the US might not defend America’s North Atlantic Treaty Organisation partners with him as president. “I’d really hoped that I was going to hear him to say more about bringing all of us together”, he said, as red, white and blue balloons and confetti fell from the rafters. Our party, the Republican party, was founded to defeat slavery.