Trump says he won’t accept Cruz endorsement anyway

Trump, whose unpredictable campaign has broken every rule of politics, portrayed America as a broken nation that only he could fix, CNN said.

Referring to Trump’s message as a “dark and divisive vision”, Clinton said her Republican opponent “offered a lot of fear and anger and resentment but no solutions about anything that he even talked about”. But Republican nominees didn’t always speak this way.

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“Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it”, Trump said.

“I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves”, Trump said.

“I don’t think they expanded their appeal an inch at that convention with “lock her up” and Rudy Giuliani standing up and screaming”, said Mark Alderman, a veteran Democratic donor and former transition chief for President Barack Obama.

“I didn’t start anything with the wife”, Trump said of the attack ads during the primary, which he retweeted, that featured an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz. “I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father”, he proclaimed, which raised the question: so what we he doing there, exactly? The words mentioned most often in Trump’s speech were America, Country and Americans, followed by Going, Work, Law and Nation. It illustrates Trump’s promise to restore safety to the country again.

“He’ll come and endorse because he has no choice”, Trump said.

Ivanka, who has worked alongside her father for more than 10 years, said he is “color blind and gender neutral” when it comes to his businesses.

“As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology”, Trump declared at one point, eliciting one of the loudest cheers. Ted Cruz’s dramatic refusal to endorse him from the convention stage. “The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction overseas – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them”.

Trump, a NY businessman who has never held elective office, needs a strong performance to improve his chances of getting a boost in opinion polls from the four-day Republican convention as Democrats prepare for their own, more scripted version next week in Philadelphia. “Whatever pride needs to be swallowed, needs to be swallowed tonight”, delegate Spencer Stokes said at the group’s final breakfast meeting. “But that’s not where you want to necessarily send a risqué picture”, he said.

Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, sought to put the Cruz appearance in a positive light, telling reporters on Thursday that the booing of Cruz increased party unity, “in a backhanded way”.