Donald Trump Accepts Republican Nomination For US President

They also cited Republican infighting over Trump, including the refusal of many high-profile Republicans to endorse the party’s new standard-bearer.

Trump said his plan will put America First.

Kelly Schmidt from North Dakota said: “I think it’s been a great success”.

She closed the speech by saying, “When my father says that he will make America great again, he will deliver”. “Tonight, they heard how he’ll do that”.

Trump’s speech, on the other hand, focuses more on the grievances shared by his voters, casting him as the voice of the “forgotten” and giving a fortress-like vision of America. Before he sawed the convention in half, Cruz spent most of his speech espousing conservative ideals – but he had to know the way he closed his speech would be the real newsmaker, nullifying everything he had said before.

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Many viewers were particularly surprised when Trump spoke positively and inclusively about LGBTQ people in the context of the Orlando shootings. I think he thinks from his heart and what he feels.

“As a woman, I care about the future of the country for my children and my grandchildren”, she said.

Don Taylor chaired Waukesha County’s Republican Party for three decades. Thursday – the night of Trump’s speech and the last night of the convention – was the only night in which the arena was fully packed.

“An attack on law enforcement is an attack on all Americans”, Trump said about police officers gunned down in Dallas, Texas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

On the whole this convention is more subdued than any I have been to.

Aides of Mr Trump’s put a positive face on the dispute and said the booing incident proved the party was in fact lined up squarely behind Mr Trump.

“I thought the speech hit all the right buttons”, Taylor said. When GOP leaders blocked that effort, the anti-Trump delegates staged a noisy protest on the floor.

“Depends on what the trade deal is, I guess”.

“We all understand it was a mistake, and they owned up to it”, Georgia delegate Donna Rowe said.

Taylor was also OK with Trump’s comments on protecting the LBGT community.

Charlie Sykes came to Cleveland as an outspoken critic of Donald Trump.

Pat Anderson came to Cleveland as a Marco Rubio delegate but is fine with Trump.

“Ronald Reagan always talked about unleashing the creative powers of the American people”, Sykes said.

In a contest that pits two politicians viewed as unfavourable by large segments of the American people, Trump will accuse Clinton of failures while serving as President Barack Obama’s first-term secretary of state and cite her use of a private email server and destruction of emails as evidence that “corruption has reached a level like never before”. He insisted he would not be a “servile puppy dog”, especially after Trump’s criticism of his wife and father.

“He covered a lot of ground and did it very well”, said Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais, calling it a good general election message.

Once every four years, each of America’s major political parties gets the chance to show the nation what it stands for.

And as in previous rallies, Trump had to pause at one point as a protester heckled him and had to be removed by security. He didn’t sound happy about it. Trump’s speech clearly thrilled those at the convention, but will it be enough to unite a Republican party that seemed badly fractured just a night ago? “I think it will carry him to victory”. “He wasn’t my first choice, but I’m learning what’s important to him is important to me”. “In this race for the White House, I am the law and order candidate”, he said.