GOP formally nominates Trump for president
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Hawaii delegates cheer as they announce their nomination during the second day session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland today.
CLEVELAND >> The Latest on the Republican National Convention (all times EDT):
10:15 p.m.
Donald Trump’s son Donald Jr. is citing his father’s business acumen and says that for his father, “impossible is just the starting point.”
The younger Trump tells the delegates at the Republican National Convention that his father approaches business projects the same way he has approached his campaign and life in general.
Donald Jr. says that’s why his father was able to defeat 16 other Republicans in the primary campaign, despite never having run for office.
He says the question in this election is who has the judgment to lead. He says Democrat Hilary Clinton is a risk the country can’t afford to take.
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10 p.m.
Tiffany Trump says her father, Donald Trump, is a “natural-born encourager” who’s motivated her to work her hardest.
The 22-year-old is telling the Republican National Convention about her father’s character, and recalling how he’d notes on her report cards. She says she still has them.
Tiffany Trump says the Trump way is to hold nothing back and never let fear get in the way. She says he’s the last person who’d ever tell someone to lower their sights or give up on their dream.
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9:50 p.m.
Republicans are breaking out into chants of “lock her up” as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tries to impugn Hillary Clinton’s character in his speech to the Republican National Convention.
Christie says as a former federal prosecutor, he wants to hold Clinton accountable for her actions. He says he’s laying out what he says are facts about her to “a jury of her peers.”
Guilty or not guilty — that’s what Christie is asking his audience for a verdict about Clinton on her leadership on the Islamic State group, China, and an al-Qaida-linked group in Nigeria.
Each time, delegates are responding with boisterous chants of “guilty.”
Republican activists repeatedly interrupted Christie with shouts of — “Lock her up.”
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9:42 p.m.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says Hillary Clinton lied to the nation about “her selfish, awful judgment.” Christie — who fell short in his GOP presidential bid — says voters shouldn’t elect Clinton as president and reward what he calls her incompetence.
Christie is firmly behind Republican nominee Donald Trump — and says he’s been friends with Trump for 14 years.
Christie tells the Republican National Convention that Clinton’s performance as secretary of state was dismal. He says voters should hold her accountable for failures in Libya, Syria and elsewhere.
Christie says Clinton also is responsible for a bad nuclear deal with Iran.
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9:42 p.m.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says scandal follows Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton “like flies.”
McConnell is using his speech to the Republican National Convention to rip into the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
The Kentucky senator says he’s spent more time around the Clintons than anyone should ever have to spend.
McConnell says he’s disagreed with President Barack Obama, but that at least Obama was upfront about his intentions “to move America to the left.”
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9:40 p.m.
Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says Hillary Clinton is promoting a “new world order” that would allow the government in Washington to trample Americans’ freedoms.
The retired neurosurgeon is set to tell delegates at the Republican National Committee that Clinton will push what he’s calling “cancerous policies” that perpetuate poverty.
Carson says Clinton would appoint liberal Supreme Court justices who would cement those policies.
Carson — in excerpts of his prepared remarks — says Donald Trump would preserve the “ideals upon which this country was founded.”
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9:25 p.m.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says he’ll be sharing the rostrum with “President Donald Trump” the next time there’s a State of the Union address on Capitol Hill.
Ryan hesitated for a while before finally endorsing the businessman last month. The Wisconsin lawmaker tells the Republican National Convention that only by electing Trump and running mate Mike Pence does the country “have a chance at a better way.”
He says Hillary Clinton represents a third term of what he’s calling President Barack Obama’s failed presidency.
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9:20 p.m.
Republican congressional leaders are assuring party delegates that having Donald Trump in the White House will help achieve key GOP legislative objectives.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Trump will sign bills to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law, build the Keystone pipeline and deny Planned Parenthood any federal money.
McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan also are delivering broadsides against Hillary Clinton and her fellow Democrats.
McConnell says Clinton has “a tortured relationship to the truth.”
Ryan says Clinton represents a third term of Obama’s presidency instead of the “clean break from a failed system” that many Americans want.
The Wisconsin Republican says next week’s Democratic convention will be a “four-day infomercial of politically correct moralizing.”
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9:05 p.m.
Donald Trump says he’s proud to be the Republican presidential nominee.
Trump is offering his first words to the party convention after being declared the nominee. He says in a video played in the convention hall that he’s honored to have Mike Pence as his running mate and that the Indiana governor will make a “great, great vice president.”
Trump says he’ll appear with Pence in Cleveland on both Wednesday and Thursday. He says they’ll win Ohio and the presidency.
Trump is promising to bring “real change and leadership” to Washington.
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8:20 p.m.
Mystery solved at the GOP convention.
The question is why all 19 delegates from the District of Columbia were awarded to Donald Trump.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio won the district’s convention during the primary season and Ohio Gov. John Kasich came in second. Trump didn’t win any delegates back in March.
But party rules in the district say that if only one candidate’s name is placed into nomination at the national convention, then all 19 delegates go to that candidate.
Trump was the only candidate to be nominated at the convention.
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8:15 p.m.
Mike Pence has been nominated as the Republican vice presidential candidate — and Donald Trump’s running mate.
The Indiana governor was declared the nominee by acclimation — meaning no formal roll call vote is needed. That ruling came from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as he presided over the party’s convention.
McConnell says Pence has the “overwhelming support of this convention” to be the next vice president.
Indiana Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb — who put Pence’s name in nomination — says Pence has overseen record investments in education and eliminated red tape for businesses. He says under Pence’s leadership, more Indiana residents are working and the tech sector is experiencing “explosive” growth.
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8:10 p.m.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has formally declared Donald Trump the winner of the Republican presidential nomination.
Ryan says Trump received 1,725 delegates in the state-by-state roll call. Ryan says Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was the runner-up with 475 delegates. Ohio Gov. John Kasich came in third with 129 votes, followed by 113 for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
Fifth-place went to physician Ben Carson with seven delegates, followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with three delegates and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul with two delegates.
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8:05 p.m.
Donald Trump is celebrating his big achievement Tuesday night: officially becoming the Republican nominee for president.
Trump has posted a tweet that it was “such a great honor” after the roll call of the states at the Republican National Convention gave him the number of delegates needed to become the GOP’s nominee.
He added: “I will work hard and never let you down! AMERICA FIRST!”
Trump is set to formally accept the nomination during a Thursday night speech at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.
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8 p.m.
Donald Trump may officially be the Republican nominee, but that didn’t stop at least one state from taking exception to the way its votes were counted during Tuesday night’s presidential roll call at the GOP convention.
The Alaska delegation is disputing how its votes were recorded and requesting a formal poll of its delegates. But House Speaker Paul Ryan has declared that Alaska’s 28 votes are going to Trump — who already had more delegates than he needed to win.
The dispute appeared to be over Alaska state party rules that say a candidate loses his or her delegates if the candidate’s campaign is no longer active.
All of Trump’s challengers suspended their campaigns when it became clear the New Yorker would win the nomination.
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7:55 p.m.
Not every Republican activist is so excited now that Donald Trump has clinched the party’s presidential nomination.
Colorado delegate Kendal Unruh says it’s time to “cancel the convention, stop the sham.” She says Trump has worked to coronate himself king.
Unruh is warning there could be drama and a “show of displeasure” coming on Thursday when Trump is set to speak at the convention.
Colorado cast most of its votes for Cruz.
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7:45 p.m.
Even as they’re casting votes for John Kasich (KAY’-sihk) during the roll call of the states, numerous delegates are the Republican National Convention are still getting the Ohio governor’s last name wrong.
It rhymes with “basic.”
But at least three delegates announcing their state’s votes for the nomination pronounced the second syllable like the word “itch.”
The frequent stumbling over Kasich’s last name was something of a running joke while Kasich was competing for the Republican presidential nomination.
He dropped out in May, but still was awarded delegates at the convention because of votes he won in the primary contests.
Kasich wasn’t present for Tuesday night’s proceedings, despite the fact that the convention is taking place in his home state.
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7:35 p.m.
New Mexico’s governor refused to endorse Donald Trump after he chastised her for not doing her job when it comes to unemployment and other issues.
But there was Susana Martinez on the floor of the Republican National Convention and introducing the young delegate who announced New Mexico’s tally during the roll call of states.
Trump won the nomination Tuesday night, and New York put him over the top.
Some prominent Republicans have stayed away from the convention, but Martinez has been a visible presence in Cleveland.
Trump criticized Martinez in May at a campaign appearance in New Mexico, but later said he wanted her support. Martinez is the nation’s first female Hispanic governor.
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7:25 p.m.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is blaming what he calls are “Clinton Democrats” for a Senate standoff that’s blocked President Barack Obama’s request for money to fight the Zika virus.
Congress is now on a seven-week recess, and left Washington without acting on the Zika money. Democrats objected to a GOP proposal that would block Planned Parenthood clinics in Puerto Rico from getting money to fight the virus.
McConnell is blaming the impasses on Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
The Kentucky lawmaker is speaking later Tuesday night at the convention but some of his remarks are being released beforehand.
McConnell says he wonders what Democrats “think public service is about.” He says the presidential election will answer this basic question: “Who is looking out for us?”
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7:15 p.m.
Donald Trump’s son Donald Jr. cast the final votes his father needed to become the Republican presidential nominee.
The younger Trump was on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and told the excited activists in the auditorium that New York was casting 89 votes for Trump and six for Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
He then shouted out: “Congratulations, Dad, we love you.”
Donald Jr. says he’s watched as his father has built a movement and he says that movement has given Americans a voice again.
Also on the convention floor are some of Donald Trump’s other children, including Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump.
Delegates on the floor broke into cheers and waved signs as the song “New York, New York” played at the Quicken Loans Arena.
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7:10 p.m.
Make it official: The Republican Party has nominated Donald Trump for president.
And now the New York billionaire has completed a remarkable rise from political outsider to major party nominee for the White House.
New York put him over the top in the delegate count Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention.
There was a disruptive fight on Monday night over the party’s rules, but a day later that was history.
There was little drama as party delegates united behind the real estate mogul and reality TV star.
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6:58 p.m.
Donald Trump’s former campaign manager — Corey Lewandowski — has announced how his home state of New Hampshire is casting its votes for the Republican nomination.
Lewandowski was fired by the Trump campaign last month. But he’s remained a vocal supporter of Trump and has advocated for him in his new role as a commentator on CNN.
Lewandowski note that New Hampshire was the first primary contest that Trump won. He says New Hampshire is casting 11 of its votes for “my friend and the next president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.”
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6:43 p.m.
Republican convention officials are giving some delegates won by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich to Donald Trump.
Rubio won the District of Columbia convention and got 10 delegates. Kasich came in second and got nine. That’s how the district’s delegation announced its tally from the floor of the convention.
But the convention’s presiding officer awarded all 19 delegates to Trump.
Here’s what delegate Chip Nottingham thought of that move:
“The chair, in a power play, just deemed that all 19 would go to Trump ‘cause they don’t want any dissent even though they clearly have a majority of votes that they need.”
Nottingham demanded that the delegation be polled. But convention officials didn’t give him the chance to speak.
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6:35 p.m.
Donald Trump now has recorded more than half of the delegates needed to become the GOP presidential nominee.
The state-by-state roll call is still going on at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
It takes 1,237 delegates to win the nomination.
Trump hit the halfway point when Illinois cast 54 delegates for Trump, six for Ohio Gov. John Kasich and nine for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
Delegation chairman Nathan Paikai announced the votes for Hawaii, which cast one vote for Marco Rubio, seven votes for Ted Cruz and 11 votes for Trump based on results from the Republican presidential caucus here on March 8.
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6:20 p.m.
The state-by-state roll call to nominate Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee is underway.
There’s not much drama but lots of noise — chants of “We want Trump” broke out as the roll call reached California.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s name isn’t formally placed in nomination even though he was closest to Trump in the primaries.
Earlier Tuesday, some Republicans were saying Cruz’s supporters wanted to gather enough signatures to allow the Texan to be nominated.
Being officially nominated means a candidate is entitled to have supporters deliver a nominating and seconding speech. But Trump’s campaign and GOP officials eager for a show of unity behind Trump worked to head that off.
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6:10 p.m.
New York Rep. Chris Collins has seconded the nomination of Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination.
Collins — a delegate to the Republican National Convention — says Trump will build a wall to secure the U.S.-Mexican border. He says Trump will defeat terrorism and make the U.S. safe again.
South Carolina’s lieutenant governor, Henry McMaster, is also voicing his support for Trump.
McMaster is one of Trump’s highest-profile early endorsers and says Trump wants to go to work “for us.”
Many observers wondered why McMaster — an establishment Republican — was getting behind the unconventional candidate when he endorsed Trump ahead of South Carolina’s February primary. McMaster’s inner circle questioned the support, and some were disappointment he hadn’t picked another candidate.
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6 p.m.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is painting a dire picture of the state of America as he nominates Donald Trump for president at the Republican National Convention.
Sessions is returning to themes that other speakers focused on during the first day of the convention. He says the U.S. has gotten off-course and the political system isn’t working.
Sessions says incomes have dropped and terrorist attacks have increased. He says respect for the U.S. has fallen, while crime has risen.
Sessions is blaming President Barack Obama for the nation’s ill and says Obama “does not lead.” He says Trump isn’t intimidated by the challenge.
Sessions has been one of the most prominent backers of Trump’s hard-line position on immigration. He says Trump is the “singular leader that can get this country back on track.”
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5:50 p.m.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has gaveled in the second day of his party’s summer convention in Cleveland.
The session started with the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner.
Set to give speeches are House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to speak, as do two of Donald Trump’s children — Tiffany and Donald Jr.
But the big event is the state-by-state roll call vote for the GOP presidential nomination, when Donald Trump will become the party’s White House nominee.
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4:40 p.m.
Donald Trump’s campaign says the presidential candidate will be back in Cleveland for a “Family Welcome Event” on Wednesday afternoon at the Great Lakes Science Center.
He’s expected to arrive by helicopter at the center on the shore of Lake Erie and next to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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3:43 p.m.
Hillary Clinton says the Republican National Convention has been “surreal” and she’s comparing the event to the “Wizard of Oz.”
Clinton says the GOP event has amounted to “lots of sound and fury — even a fog machine.”
She says that “when you pull back the curtain, it was just Donald Trump with nothing to offer to the American people.”
Clinton is in Las Vegas, speaking to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a trade union.
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2:45 p.m.
As Donald Trump prepares to receive the nomination for president on Tuesday evening, Ohio Gov. John Kasich will be nearby — speaking to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Trump has angered Hispanics with his call to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and to make Mexico pay for it. Kasich has refused to endorse Trump and is skipping the Cleveland convention.
Trump’s campaign chairman has called Kasich’s decision to skip the convention “petulant” and “embarrassing.”
Kasich’s advisers say he’s trying not to be rude but has moved on to helping other candidates on the Republican ticket.
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2:27 p.m.
The commission on presidential debates is switching the site of the first presidential debate from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, to Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
Wright State already had announced it was pulling out as host.
The debate is scheduled for Sept. 26.
Hofstra hosted a presidential debate in 2012. The school had been designated as an alternate debate site for 2016.
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2:01 p.m.
When it came to her moment in the spotlight, Melania Trump chose a dress not by an American, but by a Serbian-born designer based in London.
She wore an off-white dress with three-quarter length, bell-shaped sleeves for her convention speech Monday night.
It’s from Roksanda Ilincic, whose designs are popular among celebrities.
Samantha Cameron, wife of former British Prime Minister David Cameron, wore a colorful, flared dress from the designer when she left Downing Street last week.
Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, has worn her designs to at least three events this summer, including a brilliant yellow dress with blocks of white to Wimbledon.
Michelle Obama wore the designer’s beaded wool satin dress and wool coat to meet the Chinese president in 2011.
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1:38 p.m.
The White House is staying out of the debate over similarities between Melania Trump’s GOP convention speech and Michelle Obama’s speech to the 2008 Democratic convention.
Spokesman Josh Earnest says Michelle Obama received an enthusiastic reception and strong reviews back then because of the speech, her life story and the values of integrity and hard work that she and the president try to instill in their kids
Earnest says what matters most in the 2016 race is the agenda being put forward to advance those values. He says voters will decide in November whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton is the best candidate to instill those values in the next generation.
Trump’s campaign has dismissed as “just absurd” criticism that two passages in Melania Trump’s speech were lifted nearly word-for-word from Michelle Obama.
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1:23 p.m.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is comparing Donald Trump to his “political hero,” the late President Ronald Reagan.
Pence, who’s Trump’s running mate, made the comment at a luncheon held by the American Conservative Union Foundation.
The Indiana governor says Trump, like Reagan, “never lost touch with everyday Americans” despite big career achievements.
Trump is set to officially become the party’s nominee Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention.
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12:52 a.m.
The Justice Department has removed from its Twitter account a tweet that linked to news coverage of Melania Trump and described CNN as the “biggest troll of them all.”
The tweet was pulled Tuesday morning soon after it surfaced.
The department says an employee in its public affairs office erroneously sent an “inappropriate” message using the department’s official Twitter account that had been intended for a personal account. The staffer’s access to the department’s social media accounts has been revoked.
The message included a link to a CNN story about allegations that Melania Trump had plagiarized sections of her Monday night Republican National Convention speech from a 2008 convention speech by Michelle Obama.
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12:22 p.m.
Hillary Clinton is picking up the endorsement of UNITE HERE ahead of a campaign trip to Nevada, winning the support of a labor union that represents workers in the hotel, gaming and food service industries.
The union represents 270,000 workers and is citing Clinton’s commitment to affordable health care and advocacy for immigrant families, including her push for comprehensive immigration reform.
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12:00 p.m.
Another musical act is telling Donald Trump to stop using their music.
The classic rock band Queen Tweeted Tuesday that they never approved Trump’s use of “We Are the Champions” during the 2016 Republic National Convention.
Before Melania Trump gave a speech in Cleveland on Monday night, Trump made a brief appearance to introduce her and walked onstage to Queen’s 1977 hit song.
The band wrote on Twitter, “An unauthorized use at the Republican Convention against our wishes.”
Other musicians who have asked Trump to stop using their music include the Rolling Stones, Adele and Neil Young.
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The best present the Democratic Party could ever receive!
they need it with Hillary as their candidate
As hated as Hillary is, the republicans could have won this election . . . but instead they decided racist, misogynistic, not-fit-to-be-president Trump should be their candidate. It’s almost as if they WANTED Hillary to win.
Congratulations to Donald J Trump. Make America Great Again.
Someone astutely commented last week that Hillary is the only candidate Trump can beat, and vice versa. Gotta love the mud! Go Gary!
They do, there’s no other explanation for it, except for racists like lespark who drink that koolaid. Lespark, doesn’t it “ailes” you that the boss of all your beloved Fox is a sexual pervert? Of course not, you revel in perversity.
A great win for a Great American. Thanks for all the comments. Read em and weep.
oxtail01, I don’t know the guy did and it’s none of my business. Just because you are having a bad day please do not take it on me. Make America Great Again.
lespark loves to refrence FOX whenever it fits his need,like noting close poll numbers but when it turns bad like it did this week, nowhere to be heard. Guess that’s what he considers “fair and balanced”. Well, he needs to recalibrate his balance from falling off the right edge. None of your business? But it is if you insist on defending a racist using a racist source as your reference.
Congratulations to Donald J Trump. Make America Great Again.
America is deeply flawed and no country in the world is great. But it has some great ideals if the USA would live up to them. Trump has given no real clue what he would do except lower taxes on the 1% of the richest and explode the deficit upward. He has no plan at all. None.
Make America Great Again.Donald J Trump for Law and Order. First things first.
Great speech, Ms.Obama, Mrs. Trump just loved it.
Trump will continue to sell his cheap Chinese made carp to guys like lespark and sarge22 and promote his “university” to their kids. And you know their kids need all the education they can get.
Besides selling fish does Mr Trump also sell oxtail?
sarge22, thanks for being such a comedic relief and being able to swallow all the carp, hook, line, and sinker. I’m having so much fun!
yep, make American great again for you white bigots. trumpy will lose badly in nov.
Hi racist surprised you are still around after a a blowout loss “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” times two.
Black lives matter. They are coming after you.
Great speech, Ms. Obama, black life really mattered to Ms. Trump.
Yeah, isn’t America great for Ms. Trump going out of her way to honor Ms. Obama? That’s great, got goosebumps all over my body.
And up until this year, I wondered how the German people elected Hitler despite all the nasty things he said against the Jewish people.
I see how it was done; but, I still do not understand the people who vote for these racists.
In this election cycle, low information voters (let’s call them Republicans) have been convinced to vote against their own self interests by a complete fraud.
It’s really amazing.
If I agree with you that the low information voters are republicans, would you agree with me that democrats are “refuse to care about electing a proven liar voters”?
Why Don lies too every time he speaks.
Nope. I would not.
Well, you guys did put Bush in, didn’t you?
Listen up. Paul Ryan is now speaking.
Thanks klastri, your response, “Nope. I would not.” Made my point.
Klastri,
I thought the RNC Convention 2nd day was pretty good. It will be my job to keep all the remarks fresh in the voters minds for the next 4 months. It shouldn’t be to hard.
If that’s your job, it explains why you’re on here all day and night writing exactly the same comments, over and over and over again, on every article.
Must be nice!
He’ll just reference FOX, the network headed by a sexual pervert.
Congratulations to Donald J Trump. Make America Great Again.
I thank Ms.Trump for affirming how great America is. She went out of her way to honor Ms.Obama. Ohh…how thrilling that is and how much a black life mattered to her.
Good luck? Congratulations? Whatever, this voter voting other than Trump, but do wish him well! Not voting for Clinton either!
Great day for America.
Great energy at the convention. The establishment can’t handle the truth and we the people have spoken. A huge disappointment for the media and all the no class losers can do is ask about Melania’s beautiful speech. The Trump rolls on. Now let’s all stay on topic. “Make America Safe Again”
Congratulations to Donald J Trump. Make America Great Again.
Ditto–agreed. He’s going for Change, but thankfully not the change Obama gave us–more welfare, more handouts, horrible foreign relations, but his golf score, I am sure, went down.
I do agree she was so beautiful last night to honor Ms.Obama.
Good for America. Our current administration has been an embarrassment and clinton only got to be secretary of state as a consolation prize to not make trouble, not because of ability. She has no claim to ability except not smart enough to use email, and her arrogance of using a private email server leaked national secrets. Trump can be arrogant, but her arrogance far exceeds his by thinking she is above the law because of who she is.
Its sad that people still buy into her rhetoric, but maybe they need to be taken care of by big government and can’t handle being responsible enough to think for themselves.
America needs a leader who will shake up the status quo, not reinforce it.
God Bless You.
Wow, Clinton used private emails for work. And just imagine the type of servers she could use once she becomes president! We just can’t take that risk. Better to vote for a racist, misogynistic, not-fit-to-be-president person who thinks Mexicans are rapists and that the US should assassinate the children of suspected terrorists. At least he won’t use his private email! Now that’s good decision-making!
God Bless You
Not to mention she supports murdering innocent babies, lies and is clearly supported by behind-the-scenes propping up by the current administration. I just hear Trump saying if you want to come into our country, do it legally. Sounds ok to me. the rest is just a stretch by the media who can’t control him.
He has both parties against him, and since politicians put themselves ahead of the public, I’m taking that as he will shake up our current entrenched system. Of course those in power don’t like that and will twist his words to keep themselves in power as long as they can. Even obama said in 2008 that clinton will say whatever she has to to get elected. that came from a dem, not from a republican or trump.
God bless you
Since you, as opposed to most here, seem to have a degree of perspective, let me encourage you to support Gary Johnson. These two “frontrunners” will continue to alienate voters, and having an honorable alternative able to remove the stench from your vote will become increasingly attractive.
Since I am an American before I am a democrat or republican, I am happy to hear what he has to say.
Thank you, matt. My encouragement was directed towards ryan, but is equally applicable for you as well. I hope you do study Gary’s positions, and examine his record. I know you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Donald J Trump. The Law and Order POTUS Nominee.
Black Lives Matter backs Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Turkish Islamic movement have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton’s potus campaign.
And Trump has made a bundle selling cheap Chinese carp to guys like you.
I wasn’t aware the the President sold fish. bwahaha “Make America Safe Again”. Slow down and relax. I know it’s a tough loss.
Really, the speeches riled up the Democrats. I guess it can’t be helped. They are up to their eyeballs in Crooked Mama’s toxic lies.
Yup, the great speech by Ms. Obama energized even Ms. Trump.
You guys really know how to swallow c….p, don’t you?
It’s a good eating fish, they sell it at Richie’s, Times, Safeway. Thank Donald for providing affordable protein. I don’t know what you do for a living but what’s wrong with making money?
I knew you enjoy eating c….p.
Were you the first one out in your second grade spelling bee? Too funny.
Thanks Donald Jr. – I knew I could depend on you for those final votes.
He was great. Even the Democrats could not find much wrong with that speech.
Hmmmn, so it’s begins in formal. At present, he has a one in four chance to the White House, see:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/upshot/hillary-clinton-has-a-76-percent-chance-to-win-the-presidency.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
I don’t really see how a thinking person could like those odds….
nytimeS Another liberal rag. The Trump Train rolls on. Keep your eye on the scoreboard..HiLIARy on trial now with Prosecutor Christie. Guilty, guilty, guilty Lock her up.
Energy! I hear more cheering and noise at a senior citizens bingo game. He needs his own family to praise him because no one else wanted to. Continue to believe what you want but tune in to Fox News and be prepared to yawn yourself to sleep. Boring!
Fox is too busy right now covering for their sexual pervert boss.
He may end up in prison himself.
Obviously, Christie could never be confirmed by the Senate. Never.
It’s true. Anyone with an understanding of the vetting process or in the know, is fully cognizant that Christie could never actually get confirmed for the AG position–it’s the reason why he is so beside himself on not getting the VP position.
democrats will put up their racist female felon whose husband is a serial sexual offender.
not an ideal presidential campaign year.
going to be close.
Now, it is breaking on several news outlets that Ms. Trump is culpable for the plagiarism, all on her own. The Trump campaign turned to two high-powered speechwriters, who had helped write signature political oratory like George W. Bush’s speech to the nation on Sept. 11, 2001, to introduce Ms. Trump, a Slovenian-born former model, to the nation on the opening night of the Republican National Convention.
It did not go as planned, and it has eclipsed much of the action at the party gathering in Cleveland, where delegates on Tuesday night formally nominated Mr. Trump for president.
The speechwriters, Matthew Scully and John McConnell, sent Ms. Trump a draft last month, eager for her approval.
Weeks went by. They heard nothing.
Inside Trump Tower, it turned out, Ms. Trump had decided she was uncomfortable with the text, and began tearing it apart, leaving a small fraction of the original.
Her quiet plan to wrest the speech away and make it her own set in motion the most embarrassing moment of the convention: word-for-word repetition of phrases and borrowed themes from Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic convention eight years ago.
Interesting because English is not her first language and instead of having confidence in experienced people who willing to help, she chose to do it her way and is now paying dearly for it. Her behavior is very similar to her husbands.
What are you guys talking about, colloquial cliches have been used as a speech writing tools since the English language. Hilliary Clinton was extremely careless, I did not send classified information, what difference does it make, (Benghazi), I never had sex with that women, I turned over all officials emails, hours and hours, day by day, are some of my favorites. Is alleged plagiarism worse than confirmed lying? Because Hilliary is so toxic her only hope is to attack Donald and his family.
I thank Ms.Trump for honoring Ms.Obama, a great gesture for sure.
She did not make these attacks. In fact, one of the first sources to remark on the plagiarism was the conservative National Review. You best be advised to get your facts in order before making statements that are not only untrue, but tether on the fence of being pathologically illogical.
Per the Economist, you Trumpiets might want to convey these very helpful hints to Ms. Trump, for future reference and usuage.
Be a good writer in the first place. Bad writing that suddenly becomes lucid is as noticeable as an inexperienced driver shifting from second into fifth rather than third gear. Student writers are particularly prone to this mistake. So when slipping other professionals’ writing into your own, it helps to be a good writer to begin with—the kind, of course, with no need to plagiarise.
Plagiarise boring stuff. Content is key. Original ideas are a yellow flag, striking wordings a red one, and (in the case of journalism) original bits of reporting a completely no-go zone. So be sure to plagiarise others’ lazy writing, the kind of rote stuff that won’t jump off your own carefully assembled page. In other words, nick the kind of thing not worth plagiarising.
Prefer unknown writers. Mr Hedges wrote:
In combat the abstract words glory, honor, courage often become obscene and empty. They are replaced by the tangible images of war, the names of villages, mountains, roads, dates, and battalions.
A mostly identical passage appears in Hemingway’s “Farewell to Arms”, as a professor at the University of Texas discovered and told Mr Hedges’s publisher. For the paperback edition, Mr Hedges changed the passage to make it sufficiently different from Hemingway’s (though he added no mention of Hemingway, claiming that this would require an expensive repagination of the book). Joe Biden, America’s vice-president, once plagiarised a speech by Neil Kinnock, a former leader of Britain’s Labour Party, and one of his speechwriters lifted bits from both Robert and John Kennedy, both Democratic Party saints. Obviously, the better-known the source material, the greater risk you run of having to explain yourself. If you must plagiarise, do so from unloved, obscure and at best completely unpublished writers—ie, those not worth plagiarising.
“Patchwrite.” This plagiarist’s term of art means to copy another passage almost completely, but changing enough words—add a few here, drop a few there, break up sentence structure, switch some synonyms—that you have plausible deniability. If discovered, you have a sliding scale to defend yourself with: it’s not 100%, right? Tomayto, tomahto, let’s call the whole trial off. For extra defence, you can mention the original source elsewhere in your piece or in a bibliography, and then claim that your patchwriting was obviously homage, not larceny.
Self-plagiarise. One of the richest sources of material is your own back catalogue. If you are in a hurry, writing for too many publications on too many deadlines, go back and reuse material word-for-word that you have published elsewhere. “Self-plagiarism” is such a confusing phenomenon—leaving pundits wondering whether it is or isn’t an oxymoron—that you can almost certainly escape in the confusion.
Be famous. If you are important or powerful enough, discovered plagiarism will be counted against the many good deeds you have done in your life. It helps if you are not a professional writer, since those good deeds are not themselves writings which will forever live in the shadow of your plagiarism.
Stay obscure. Rather than the “be famous” strategy, which few can pull off flawlessly, this really is your best line of defence. No plagiarism is foolproof. Google turns up already published passages in seconds, even dull ones from dull writers. So your best defence is to make sure no one comes looking in the first place. Everyone loves to take down a giant, especially a controversial one. If you must plagiarise, make sure to produce such forgettable work that it will never make you a big name, the kind of titan some people admire, and others long to take down for some serious and unlovable sin.
RIP GOP!
Great speeches today and lying crooked HiLIARy’s only response is the bridge. Laughable. Lots of sour grapes today. The above the law elite are in big trouble and continue to quibble about the pretty lady’s speech. Eric did great and Ben Carson warned us of the devil. Overall another Great Day for America. Can’t wait for tomorrow
“I look at trade like I look at immigration, like I look at growing nationalism, like I look at isolationism,” Kasich said. “When you isolate, when you have excessive nationalism, when you’re anti-trade and anti-immigration, what good comes from that? What is that a formula for?”
Speaking earlier at a forum sponsored by the International Republican Institute, just a few blocks from the convention venue, he was more pointed.
“We all love our countries, but you know what doing nationalism to an extreme amount can mean,” Kasich told the crowd of Republican foreign policy experts without mentioning the Trump slogan of “Make America Great Again” or the string of speakers at Monday night’s Republican National Convention who argued Muslims, immigrants and civil rights advocates were destroying the country.
“We think NATO doesn’t matter? Are we kidding?” Kasich said at another point, without mentioning that Trump has argued the treaty organization is obsolete.
Rather than shutting down and shutting out the world, Kasich repeatedly argued for embracing it.
“When I look at immigration, I look at a new level of energy. I look at immigration as an opportunity,” Kasich said, without mentioning Trump’s pledge to build a wall. “We want people to come to Ohio. We want to integrate these folks. We want them to become part of our economic dynamo.”
When the host Governor of your own convention and of your same political party is both absent and ready to take you down, well it speaks volumes……