Clinton aims to take Trump’s convention thunder with VP pick

Yet, a year later, Trump has officially become the Republican presidential nominee despite having no prior political experience.

Dayna Dent, 69, a retiree and alternate delegate from Washington state told AFP she was “thrilled” by the speech.

One of Trump’s five children, Ivanka was chosen to introduce her father, who then officially accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

Trump often seems to thrive on controversy, chaos and defying conventional political wisdom.

Giving the longest nomination acceptance speech in modern US election history, Trump promised “the truth, and nothing else”. The speech expressed a number of specific political positions and concrete campaign promises, typically missing in Trump’s public speeches.

Whether you support Trump or not, you should probably support facts. He also said he would repeal Obamacare and promised to tackle growing levels of student loan debt. However, the delegates were less than impressed with Ted’s lack of endorsement as they began booing him near the end of his speech.

His comments Thursday morning to the Texas delegation indicated that he had not yet made up his mind (like many of us).

There was a lot of talk leading up to the convention about Trump’s lack of campaign infrastructure and organization.

Cruz does not yet have a clear conscience-driven choice for the simple reason that, as bad as Trump is (and as a Republican nominee he’s the worst in my lifetime), the possibility of Hillary getting into office is apocalyptic, and all the more given that the next president will likely appoint three, if not four, Supreme Court justices (and, no, it is not the case that our chances of getting any good judges are as low with Trump as they are with Clinton). “A change in leadership is required to change these outcomes”.

As the crowd roared: “Lock her up”, Trump waved them off and said: “Let’s defeat her in November”. The speech linked illegal immigration with crime, citing recent crimes committed by illegal aliens in sanctuary cities.

On the eve of his address, Trump suggested a new course for US foreign policy, saying he would set different conditions before coming to the defense of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies.

However, he added that in doing so, his administration would be “considerate and compassionate” when giving immigrants the “respect they deserve”. He accused her of crimes such as terrorism and destruction that would not fit as America’s legacy and that Obama’s decision to authorize her over foreign policy is one that the President regrets. He also asserted that he could unite a divided country in a way that President Obama has not.

“This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction and weakness”, Trump said. But he did disavow America’s foreign policy posture under both Democrat and Republican presidents, criticizing “fifteen years of wars in the Middle East” and declaring that “Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo”.

On Google, there were more searches for Ivanka Trump than for her father.

Trump has never walked back his insistence that Mexico will pay for a wall that engineers predict would cost in the tens of billions of dollars to build, as if sharp negotiating skills will somehow make it so.

Ivanka nearly stole the show with a speech about her father that roused a packed Cleveland convention hall, broadcast to millions. The speech is subject to change, of course, and change should be expected-Trump has occasionally shown discipline when reading from a TelePrompter, but no one expects him to stick to the prepared remarks completely. He said he will not sign “bad” trade agreements. He said he would do everything he could to keep American industries in the USA, and use the profits to fund infrastructure improvements.

Though gay rights groups have pointed to Trump’s rhetoric about other minorities as evidence of intolerance, Republicans say that’s an attempt to blur the issues to help Democrats win elections and raise money.

In his hour-plus remarks, Trump recited a string of slogans he used at rallies across the country in the past year, including “Law and Order”, “America First”, a “rigged system”, and – the original campaign theme – “Make America Great Again”. The next president takes office on Jan 20.