Liar. Lucifer. Lock her up. GOP denounces Clinton

In total, that means 19 electoral votes have moved in Hillary Clinton’s direction from “battleground” to “lean Democrat” and 20 have moved toward Donald Trump with Pennsylvania’s new “battleground” status, according to CNN’s ratings. Instead of extolling the virtues of their nominee, Republicans have turned to increasingly crass slurs against his opponent.

Pat Smith, who lost her son Sean Smith in the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, spoke at the Republican National Convention earlier this week. And then there was the suggestion by a New Hampshire delegate/Trump adviser that Hillary Clinton be executed for “treason.”

Linda Lucchese, a Trump delegate from Park Ridge, Clinton’s hometown in Chicago’s northwest suburbs, disagreed: “It won’t hurt with any woman who’s got half a brain”, she said. He then told CBS News on Sunday that he would declare war on the terrorist group and send “very few” United States troops to combat them.

“The U.S. Secret Service is aware of this matter and will conduct the appropriate investigation”, Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback said in a statement on Wednesday.

Manafort even tried to blame Hillary Clinton for the controversy over Melania Trump lifting passages of her convention remarks from a speech that Michelle Obama delivered in 2008. Michael Mukasey, a former attorney general under former president George W. Bush, was also roped in to attack Clinton.

Playing the role of prosecutor before an animated arena of GOP “jurors”, the former USA attorney for New Jersey portrayed Clinton as a “failure” as secretary of state, a deeply flawed candidate whose use of a private email server disqualifies her for the presidency.

Trump would “repeal and replace Obamacare without leaving our most vulnerable citizens without health care, and who will do it without destroying Medicare for seniors, as Hillary Clinton has proposed”, Trump Jr. said. The GOP’s strategy for winning in November rests in part on the hope that voters dislike the Democrat more than the Republican.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans in a July Associated Press-GfK poll said they viewed Clinton unfavorably, as did 64 percent of independents who don’t lean toward either party.

A central theme of Trump’s campaign has been that Clinton is corrupt and can not be trusted.

One vendor selling Trump-themed souvenirs across from the convention site said he had an obvious best seller: a T-shirt reading “Hillary for Prison 2016”.

“I think they are hysterical”, says Jennifer Rak, a Republican from OH who stopped to buy a souvenir with her mother Dale Hinsley of Indiana.

Bill Pickle, a talk radio host and SC delegate, expressed frustration at what he called “name calling and childish behavior” among some of the speakers.

“Those are truly objectionable”, says Ryan Claassen, associate professor of political science at Kent State University.

Shunned by the sort of A-listers who could give his dying popularity some serious life support, Donald Trump turned to his family at the Republican National Convention. Wisconsin delegate Jim Geldreich said the stay-on-offense strategy was spot-on. In a fundraising pitch to donors, her campaign said the GOP convention had “felt like a dark turning point in American politics”.

“If you closed your eyes, you could imagine it being a lot like a witch trial – they were barely one step removed from screaming ‘burn her at the stake,”‘ the email said.

But neither Speaker of the House Paul Ryan nor New Jersey governor Chris Christie spent much time talking about their party’s now-confirmed nominee.

“Wow. I wish I could say I was surprised”, said Anita Rios, president of Ohio NOW, the National Organization for Women. The focus of the convention on the second day was supposed to be on the economy, but it was Clinton, the former secretary of state, who was in the spotlight.

Republicans maintain Clinton broke the law by sending classified information on her private email server.

Trump’s campaign has worked to sow distrust by using vague insinuations against Clinton that are hard to prove or disprove.

The attacks are an echo of the 1990s when conservatives denounced President Bill Clinton as the chief executive dealt with scandal and impeachment.