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Armed Trump supporters ignored police pleas to leave their weapons at home and turned up outside the convention heavily armed
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Jessey Rodriguez stands with his AK-101- rifle on his back outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Monday as open carry activists make their stand
That should keep the scoundrels and troublemakers away.
'I blame Hillary': Mother of Benghazi victim calls for Clinton to be JAILED after the former Secretary of State 'called her a liar' in aftermath of attack.
'She lied to me and then called me a liar'
'I blame Hillary Clinton'
Seen through a Liberal lens.
During MSNBC’s coverage of the Republican National Convention, host Chris Matthews reacted to a speech given by Susan Smith, who’s son Sean was killed in the Benghazi terror attacks, “I don’t care what that woman up there, the mother has felt, her emotions are her own, but for the country, in choosing a leader, it’s wrong to have someone get up there and tell a lie about Hillary Clinton.”
'She lied to me and then called me a liar'
'I blame Hillary Clinton'
Seen through a Liberal lens.
During MSNBC’s coverage of the Republican National Convention, host Chris Matthews reacted to a speech given by Susan Smith, who’s son Sean was killed in the Benghazi terror attacks, “I don’t care what that woman up there, the mother has felt, her emotions are her own, but for the country, in choosing a leader, it’s wrong to have someone get up there and tell a lie about Hillary Clinton.”
[h=1]'I love him with all my heart': Tiffany Trump pays tribute to her doting dad in heartfelt speech to The Republican National Convention about The Donald's softer side[/h]
PUBLISHED: 03:26, 20 July 2016 | UPDATED: 04:31, 20 July 2016
Tiffany Trump portrayed her father, the official Republican nominee Donald Trump, as a doting dad who scribbled notes on her report card and called her when a close friend died.
The 22-year-old recent graduate from the University of Pennsylvania spoke for about five minutes on the Republican National Convention stage, prefacing her remarks with the fact that she was nervous.
'When I graduated college a couple of weeks ago, I never expected to be here,' said Tiffany Trump, the daughter of Marla Maples, Trump's second wife.
She noted how she had given a couple of speeches in class before. 'But never in an arena with more than 10 million people watching,' she added.
'Like my father I never back down to challenges,' she said.
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Tiffany Trump, the youngest Trump daughter, shared memories of her father on tonight's Republican National Convention debate stage, saying he would leave notes on all her report cards
The younger Trump talked mostly about how her dad played a motivating role in her life.
'His desire for excellence is contagious,' she said at one point.
'He's always helped me be the best version of myself,' at another.
Tiffany Trump told the crowd that, to this day, she keeps her report cards going back to kindergarten, not just to keep a record of her grades but the notes her father had scribbled on each one.
Nerves: Tiffany admitted to being apprehensive before giving her speech to millions of people nationwide
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She also recalled how her father would always check in on her family in Georgia, noting how several members were veterans.
She also recalled how her father would always check in on her family in Georgia, noting how several members were veterans.
Tiffany Trump also touted her father's behavior when he found out that she had lost someone 'very dear' to her.
Calling her first and making sure she was OK.
'I never pictured myself saying all of this to a packed arena,' she repeated, saying she admired her father all of her life.
- 22-year-old Tiffany Trump took to the Republican National Convention stage tonight
- Compared to her half-sis Ivanka the younger Trump hasn't spoken publicly about her father before
- 'I never expected to be here,' the youngest Trump daughter said, noting how the only public speaking she had done before was in class
PUBLISHED: 03:26, 20 July 2016 | UPDATED: 04:31, 20 July 2016
Tiffany Trump portrayed her father, the official Republican nominee Donald Trump, as a doting dad who scribbled notes on her report card and called her when a close friend died.
The 22-year-old recent graduate from the University of Pennsylvania spoke for about five minutes on the Republican National Convention stage, prefacing her remarks with the fact that she was nervous.
'When I graduated college a couple of weeks ago, I never expected to be here,' said Tiffany Trump, the daughter of Marla Maples, Trump's second wife.
She noted how she had given a couple of speeches in class before. 'But never in an arena with more than 10 million people watching,' she added.
'Like my father I never back down to challenges,' she said.
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Tiffany Trump, the youngest Trump daughter, shared memories of her father on tonight's Republican National Convention debate stage, saying he would leave notes on all her report cards
The younger Trump talked mostly about how her dad played a motivating role in her life.
'His desire for excellence is contagious,' she said at one point.
'He's always helped me be the best version of myself,' at another.
Tiffany Trump told the crowd that, to this day, she keeps her report cards going back to kindergarten, not just to keep a record of her grades but the notes her father had scribbled on each one.
Nerves: Tiffany admitted to being apprehensive before giving her speech to millions of people nationwide
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She also recalled how her father would always check in on her family in Georgia, noting how several members were veterans.
She also recalled how her father would always check in on her family in Georgia, noting how several members were veterans.
Tiffany Trump also touted her father's behavior when he found out that she had lost someone 'very dear' to her.
Calling her first and making sure she was OK.
'I never pictured myself saying all of this to a packed arena,' she repeated, saying she admired her father all of her life.
[h=1]'Lets have some fun tonight': Former prosecutor and Trump pal Chris Christie eviscerates Hillary Clinton in 'trial' before GOP convention – as the crowd screams 'GUILTY!' and 'LOCK HER UP!'[/h]
PUBLISHED: 03:11, 20 July 2016 | UPDATED: 04:30, 20 July 2016
The Justice Department may have taken a pass on charging Hillary Clinton, but that didn't keep Republican New Jersey governor Chris Christie from putting the Democratic nominee 'on trial' before a whipped-up crowd at the Republican convention.
Christie, a former prosecutor who destroyed Republican Marco Rubio during a New Hampshire debate, this time turned his full force of argument to Clinton, and the crowd lapped it up - and added its own chants of 'Lock her up.'
'Tonight, as a former federal prosecutor, I welcome the opportunity to hold her accountable for her performance and her character,' Christie said.
'We must present those facts to you, a jury of her peers, both in this hall and in living rooms around our nation,' Christie said.
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Chris Christie delivered a searing 'indictment' of Hillary Clinton in his convention speech – and the whipped-up GOP crowd acting as a jury found her 'guilty' on every charge
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Christie, a former prosecutor, turned his full force of argument to Clinton, and the crowd lapped it up
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Delegates shout in agreement during a speech by New Jersey governor Chris Christie at the Republican National Convention
Then, he proceeded to read through a blistering 'indictment,' where he catalogued all of Clinton's misjudgments and misdeeds.
'Hillary Clinton cared more about protecting her own secrets than she did about protecting America's secrets,' he said.
His main convention was to read out his charges, then ask the crowd: 'Guilty or not guilty?'
'Guilty!' the crowd screamed out in unison each time.
When Christie laid out the case against Clinton for her emails, it brought yet another round of 'lock her up' cheers.
'As to Hillary Clinton, putting herself ahead of America, guilty or not guilty?'
'Guilty!' yelled out the crowd.
'Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment, guilty or not guilty?'
'Guilty,' yelled back the crowd.
Christie saddled Clinton with the chaos in Libya, diplomatic pushback by China, challenges by, and a rapprochement with Cuba.
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Christie, a former prosecutor, laid out a case against Clinton that ranged from emails to Libya to China
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Delegates shout 'guilty' as New Jersey governor Chris Christie speaks on the second day of the Republican National Convention
'Hillary Clinton, as a failure for ruining Libya and creating a nest for terrorist activity by ISIS, guilty or not guilty?' he asked.
Another 'Guilty!' from the crowd.
'In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list,' Christie said.
'She doesn't fight for us. She doesn't get the real threats America faces,' he said.
'In Syria, she called President Assad a 'reformer' and a 'different kind of leader.'
'With 400,000 now dead…think about that?' Christie said.
Then he hit hard on Clinton's controversial email server, which was at the heart of an FBI investigation, saying Clinton 'lied about it over and over again'.
'She said there was no marked classified information on her server. The FBI Director said that was untrue. She said that she did not email any classified information. The FBI Director said that was untrue. She said all work related emails were sent back to the State Department. The FBI Director said that was untrue.'
'We know exactly what four years of Hillary Clinton will bring: all the failures of the Obama years, but with less charm and more lies,' Christie concluded. 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her within 10 miles of the White House again.'
Then he once again mentioned Trump, who considered him for vice president but settled on Indiana governor Mike Pence.
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Clinton's team hit back with snark, saying that if people believed Christie's routine, they had a 'bridge to sell' them – referencing Christie's bridgegate scandal
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Montana alternative delegate Susan Reneau shouts 'guilty' as New Jersey governor Chris Christie speaks on the second day of the convention. He put Hillary 'on trial' before a whipped-up crowd
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie waves as he leaves the stage after speaking on the second day of the 2016 Republican National Convention
Clinton's team hit back with snark, saying that if people believed Christie's routine, they had a 'bridge to sell' them – referencing Christie's bridgegate scandal.
'It is time to come together and make sure that Donald Trump is our next President. I am proud to be part of this team. Now let's go win this thing,' he said, to a big round of applause.
The speech featured Christie's most glowing comments about a presidential candidate since he talked up his own achievements in his 2012 convention speech, where he also said a few good words about GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
Team Romney was not pleased that Christie failed to mention the actual nominee until 16 minutes into his speech.
But Christie did hail his own New Jersey record, saying 'When I came into office, I could continue on the same path that led to wealth, jobs and people leaving the state, or I could do the job the people elected me to do — to do the big things,' he said.
'There were those who said it couldn't be done. The problems were too big – too politically charged – too broken to fix. But we were on a path we could no longer afford to follow.'
Even when he was through, Christie sounded like he was ready for more battle. He told CBS' Major Garrett, 'If Hillary Clinton wants to take me on, I'm happy to take her on every day between now and the end of the campaign, and there won't be much of her left.'
- Christie, considered a candidate to be Trump's attorney general, laid out a series of 'charges' against Clinton in a fired up convention speech
- Brings up email scandal, Libya, Boko Haram, Iran, Cuba and more
- Promises never to let her get within 10 miles of the White House again
- Christie got passed over for VP, but his performance may help his case to continue to serve Trump in other ways
PUBLISHED: 03:11, 20 July 2016 | UPDATED: 04:30, 20 July 2016
The Justice Department may have taken a pass on charging Hillary Clinton, but that didn't keep Republican New Jersey governor Chris Christie from putting the Democratic nominee 'on trial' before a whipped-up crowd at the Republican convention.
Christie, a former prosecutor who destroyed Republican Marco Rubio during a New Hampshire debate, this time turned his full force of argument to Clinton, and the crowd lapped it up - and added its own chants of 'Lock her up.'
'Tonight, as a former federal prosecutor, I welcome the opportunity to hold her accountable for her performance and her character,' Christie said.
'We must present those facts to you, a jury of her peers, both in this hall and in living rooms around our nation,' Christie said.
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Chris Christie delivered a searing 'indictment' of Hillary Clinton in his convention speech – and the whipped-up GOP crowd acting as a jury found her 'guilty' on every charge
+8
Christie, a former prosecutor, turned his full force of argument to Clinton, and the crowd lapped it up
- SHARE PICTURE
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Delegates shout in agreement during a speech by New Jersey governor Chris Christie at the Republican National Convention
Then, he proceeded to read through a blistering 'indictment,' where he catalogued all of Clinton's misjudgments and misdeeds.
'Hillary Clinton cared more about protecting her own secrets than she did about protecting America's secrets,' he said.
His main convention was to read out his charges, then ask the crowd: 'Guilty or not guilty?'
'Guilty!' the crowd screamed out in unison each time.
When Christie laid out the case against Clinton for her emails, it brought yet another round of 'lock her up' cheers.
'As to Hillary Clinton, putting herself ahead of America, guilty or not guilty?'
'Guilty!' yelled out the crowd.
'Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment, guilty or not guilty?'
'Guilty,' yelled back the crowd.
Christie saddled Clinton with the chaos in Libya, diplomatic pushback by China, challenges by, and a rapprochement with Cuba.
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Christie, a former prosecutor, laid out a case against Clinton that ranged from emails to Libya to China
+8
Delegates shout 'guilty' as New Jersey governor Chris Christie speaks on the second day of the Republican National Convention
'Hillary Clinton, as a failure for ruining Libya and creating a nest for terrorist activity by ISIS, guilty or not guilty?' he asked.
Another 'Guilty!' from the crowd.
'In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list,' Christie said.
'She doesn't fight for us. She doesn't get the real threats America faces,' he said.
'In Syria, she called President Assad a 'reformer' and a 'different kind of leader.'
'With 400,000 now dead…think about that?' Christie said.
Then he hit hard on Clinton's controversial email server, which was at the heart of an FBI investigation, saying Clinton 'lied about it over and over again'.
'She said there was no marked classified information on her server. The FBI Director said that was untrue. She said that she did not email any classified information. The FBI Director said that was untrue. She said all work related emails were sent back to the State Department. The FBI Director said that was untrue.'
'We know exactly what four years of Hillary Clinton will bring: all the failures of the Obama years, but with less charm and more lies,' Christie concluded. 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her within 10 miles of the White House again.'
Then he once again mentioned Trump, who considered him for vice president but settled on Indiana governor Mike Pence.
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Clinton's team hit back with snark, saying that if people believed Christie's routine, they had a 'bridge to sell' them – referencing Christie's bridgegate scandal
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Montana alternative delegate Susan Reneau shouts 'guilty' as New Jersey governor Chris Christie speaks on the second day of the convention. He put Hillary 'on trial' before a whipped-up crowd
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie waves as he leaves the stage after speaking on the second day of the 2016 Republican National Convention
Clinton's team hit back with snark, saying that if people believed Christie's routine, they had a 'bridge to sell' them – referencing Christie's bridgegate scandal.
'It is time to come together and make sure that Donald Trump is our next President. I am proud to be part of this team. Now let's go win this thing,' he said, to a big round of applause.
The speech featured Christie's most glowing comments about a presidential candidate since he talked up his own achievements in his 2012 convention speech, where he also said a few good words about GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
Team Romney was not pleased that Christie failed to mention the actual nominee until 16 minutes into his speech.
But Christie did hail his own New Jersey record, saying 'When I came into office, I could continue on the same path that led to wealth, jobs and people leaving the state, or I could do the job the people elected me to do — to do the big things,' he said.
'There were those who said it couldn't be done. The problems were too big – too politically charged – too broken to fix. But we were on a path we could no longer afford to follow.'
Even when he was through, Christie sounded like he was ready for more battle. He told CBS' Major Garrett, 'If Hillary Clinton wants to take me on, I'm happy to take her on every day between now and the end of the campaign, and there won't be much of her left.'
[h=1]'The Obama years are almost over. The Clinton years are way over. Two-thousand sixteen is the year America moves on,' says House Speaker Paul Ryan in convention speech[/h]
By FRANCESCA CHAMBERS, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 03:12, 20 July 2016 | UPDATED: 04:18, 20 July 2016
House Speaker Paul Ryan told Republican delegates tonight that the party didn't always agree that Donald Trump should be the nominee but it is time for party unity and a 'clean break from a failed system.'
Democrats are just going through the motions, he said, by nominating Hillary Clinton.
'The Obama years are almost over. The Clinton years are way over. Two-thousand sixteen is the year America moves on,' he said,
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House Speaker Paul Ryan told Republican delegates tonight that the party didn't always agree that Donald Trump should be the nominee but it is time for party unity and a 'clean break from a failed system'
Ryan addressed delegates during primetime in a formal speech after overseeing the roll call vote earlier in the day that delivered the GOP nomination for president and vice president to Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.
'Next time there’s a State of the Union address, I don’t know where Joe Biden and Barack Obama will be,' the GOP leader said tonight. 'But you’ll find me right there on the rostrum with Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump.'
Ryan initially withheld his endorsement of Trump even as he became the presumptive GOP over their competing visions for the Republican Party.
He eventually gave Trump his support as the party's rank and file signaled that they were coming around, as well.
Tonight he told delegates, 'Democracy is a series of choices. We Republicans have made ours.
'Have we had our arguments this year? Sure we have – and you know what I call those? Signs of life. Signs of a party that’s not just going through the motions. Not just mouthing new words for the same old stuff.'
Americans have shown in 2016 that they 'undeniably, want a big change in direction for America, a clean break from a failed system.'
'And what does the Democratic Party establishment offer? What is their idea of a clean break? They are offering a third Obama term, brought to you by another Clinton, he told them to boos.
Ryan compared the country to an airplane that's been clear for takeoff then is directed to back to the gate.
'It’s like we’ve been on hold forever, waiting and waiting to finally talk to a real person, and somehow we’ve been sent back to the main menu,' he said, switching metaphors.
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Ryan initially withheld his endorsement of Trump even as he became the presumptive GOP over their competing visions for the Republican Party. He eventually gave Trump his support after RNC chair Reince Priebus, a fellow Wisconsite brokered peace talks
Democrats will meet next week in Philadelphia to confirm Clinton as their nominee.
'You can get through four days of it, with a little help from the mute button,' he said, mocking the other party's convention. 'But four more years of it? Not a chance.'
Progressives will try to 'talk down to the rest of America,' he predicted and 'tell the voters that the Obama years have been good for you … that you should be grateful, and well, now it’s Hillary’s turn.'
'We offer a better way for America, with ideas that actually work,' he said in the speech, watched by an estimated 10 million Americans.
A conservative who cut his teeth in politics as a Capitol Hill staffer before returning home to Janesville, Wisconsin, to run for Congress the 46-year-old quickly rose through the ranks in the House, earning his stripes as a policy wonk along the way.
He took over the speakership late last year as party leader John Boehner made a dramatic exit from Congress amid discord in the party and has made a conservative agenda that focuses on a 'better way.'
Ryan used his speech to carry the ball forward, mentioning Trump a mere two times at the beginning of his speech, as he talked about the next State of the Union and toward the end when he said Clinton would never embrace his small government vision.
'None of this will happen under Hillary Clinton. Only with Donald Trump and Mike Pence do we have a chance at a better way,' he said after making the case for tax reform and other changes to the government traditionally supported by Republicans.
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SPEAKER: Ryan addressed delegates during primetime in a formal speech after overseeing the roll call vote earlier in the day that delivered the GOP nomination for president and vice president to Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence
Americans 'are disappointed and restless,' he said, because they feel 'opportunity seems like it’s been slipping away.'
'That’s because it has. And liberal progressive ideas have done exactly nothing to help,' he declared.
Obama is the 'most liberal president we have had so far,' the conservative leaders said.
'The result is a record of discarded promises … empty gestures … phony strawman arguments … reforms put off forever … shady power plays, like the one that gave us Obamacare … constitutional limits brushed off as nothing … and, all the while, dangers in the world downplayed, even as the threats grow bolder and come closer.'
Ryan told them, 'It’s the latest chapter of an old story: progressives deliver everything except progress.'
By FRANCESCA CHAMBERS, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 03:12, 20 July 2016 | UPDATED: 04:18, 20 July 2016
House Speaker Paul Ryan told Republican delegates tonight that the party didn't always agree that Donald Trump should be the nominee but it is time for party unity and a 'clean break from a failed system.'
Democrats are just going through the motions, he said, by nominating Hillary Clinton.
'The Obama years are almost over. The Clinton years are way over. Two-thousand sixteen is the year America moves on,' he said,
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House Speaker Paul Ryan told Republican delegates tonight that the party didn't always agree that Donald Trump should be the nominee but it is time for party unity and a 'clean break from a failed system'
Ryan addressed delegates during primetime in a formal speech after overseeing the roll call vote earlier in the day that delivered the GOP nomination for president and vice president to Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.
'Next time there’s a State of the Union address, I don’t know where Joe Biden and Barack Obama will be,' the GOP leader said tonight. 'But you’ll find me right there on the rostrum with Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump.'
Ryan initially withheld his endorsement of Trump even as he became the presumptive GOP over their competing visions for the Republican Party.
He eventually gave Trump his support as the party's rank and file signaled that they were coming around, as well.
Tonight he told delegates, 'Democracy is a series of choices. We Republicans have made ours.
'Have we had our arguments this year? Sure we have – and you know what I call those? Signs of life. Signs of a party that’s not just going through the motions. Not just mouthing new words for the same old stuff.'
Americans have shown in 2016 that they 'undeniably, want a big change in direction for America, a clean break from a failed system.'
'And what does the Democratic Party establishment offer? What is their idea of a clean break? They are offering a third Obama term, brought to you by another Clinton, he told them to boos.
Ryan compared the country to an airplane that's been clear for takeoff then is directed to back to the gate.
'It’s like we’ve been on hold forever, waiting and waiting to finally talk to a real person, and somehow we’ve been sent back to the main menu,' he said, switching metaphors.
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Ryan initially withheld his endorsement of Trump even as he became the presumptive GOP over their competing visions for the Republican Party. He eventually gave Trump his support after RNC chair Reince Priebus, a fellow Wisconsite brokered peace talks
Democrats will meet next week in Philadelphia to confirm Clinton as their nominee.
'You can get through four days of it, with a little help from the mute button,' he said, mocking the other party's convention. 'But four more years of it? Not a chance.'
Progressives will try to 'talk down to the rest of America,' he predicted and 'tell the voters that the Obama years have been good for you … that you should be grateful, and well, now it’s Hillary’s turn.'
'We offer a better way for America, with ideas that actually work,' he said in the speech, watched by an estimated 10 million Americans.
A conservative who cut his teeth in politics as a Capitol Hill staffer before returning home to Janesville, Wisconsin, to run for Congress the 46-year-old quickly rose through the ranks in the House, earning his stripes as a policy wonk along the way.
He took over the speakership late last year as party leader John Boehner made a dramatic exit from Congress amid discord in the party and has made a conservative agenda that focuses on a 'better way.'
Ryan used his speech to carry the ball forward, mentioning Trump a mere two times at the beginning of his speech, as he talked about the next State of the Union and toward the end when he said Clinton would never embrace his small government vision.
'None of this will happen under Hillary Clinton. Only with Donald Trump and Mike Pence do we have a chance at a better way,' he said after making the case for tax reform and other changes to the government traditionally supported by Republicans.
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SPEAKER: Ryan addressed delegates during primetime in a formal speech after overseeing the roll call vote earlier in the day that delivered the GOP nomination for president and vice president to Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence
Americans 'are disappointed and restless,' he said, because they feel 'opportunity seems like it’s been slipping away.'
'That’s because it has. And liberal progressive ideas have done exactly nothing to help,' he declared.
Obama is the 'most liberal president we have had so far,' the conservative leaders said.
'The result is a record of discarded promises … empty gestures … phony strawman arguments … reforms put off forever … shady power plays, like the one that gave us Obamacare … constitutional limits brushed off as nothing … and, all the while, dangers in the world downplayed, even as the threats grow bolder and come closer.'
Ryan told them, 'It’s the latest chapter of an old story: progressives deliver everything except progress.'
[h=1]She's one-degree of separation from a devil-lover! Ben Carson warns voters against Hillary because her 'hero' Saul Alinsky 'acknowledges Lucifer'[/h]
PUBLISHED: 04:48, 20 July 2016 | UPDATED: 06:27, 20 July 2016
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson veered off his prepared remarks on tonight's Republican National Convention stage to link Democrat Hillary Clinton to liberal radical Saul Alinsky and link Alinsky to the devil.
First, Carson noted that Alinsky was one of Clinton's heroes. 'This is someone that she greatly admired,' he said.
Carson then pointed out that in Alinsky's 1971 book 'Rules for Radicals,' the writer acknowledged Lucifer on the tome's dedication page, calling the devil the original radical.
Clinton, Carson reckoned, was guilty by association.
'So are we willing to elect somebody for president who has, as their role model, somebody who acknowledges Lucifer?' Carson asked the crowd.
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Dr. Ben Carson went offscript at tonight's Republican National Convention linking Hillary Clinton to liberal Saul Alinsky and Alinsky to the devil
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While Dr. Ben Carson touted Donald Trump too - he spoke of his concerns about draining God out of political life, suggesting the almighty would stop blessing the country
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Dr. Ben Carson left the presidential race in March at the Conservative Political Action Conference and endorsed Donald Trump a week later
'Think about that,' the retired brain surgeon scoffed.
Carson suggested that this kind of thinking was counter to the founders' thoughts.
'This is a nation where our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, talks about certain inalienable rights that come from our creator,' Carson said.
'This is a nation where our Pledge of Allegiance says, "we are one nation under God,"' he continued.
'This is a nation, this is a nation where every coin in our pocket and every bill in our wallet says, "In God We Trust,"' Carson noted.
The former presidential candidate than hammered the 'secular progressive agenda,' to which he believed Clinton was a part.
'If we continue to allow them to take God out of our lives, God will remove himself from us, we will not be blessed and our nation will go down the tubes,' Carson warned.
''We do not want that,' he added.
Enter Republican nominee Donald Trump,
'Now Donald Trump understands this very well,' Carson said.
He applauded The Donald for having a 'passion for the American worker' and being the 'right leader for a time such as this.'
'But, you know what, this is not about Donald Trump, it is not about me, it is about "We, the people,"' Carson said.
Like Trump, Carson had waged an outsider battle for the White House having spent the entirety of his career as a brain surgeon, known best for an operation that successfully separated conjoined twins.
Conservative Republicans took notice of him, however, in 2013 when he slammed some of President Obama's policies at the National Prayer Breakfast, which the president always attends.
Two years later Carson entered the presidential race being pressed by grassroots supporters to jump in.
Around Halloween Carson climbed ahead of Trump in the polls, but a series of missteps plagued the campaign. There were staff departures and gaffes. And by the time the Conservative Political Action Conference rolled around in early March, Carson officially confirmed that he was out.
A week later Carson surprised the political world by jumping behind Trump and has played an adviser role to the billionaire since.
- Ben Carson railed against the 'secular progressive agenda' in his speech at the Republican National Convention
- Carson reminded the audience that Hillary Clinton has said that she's a Saul Alinsky fan who penned the book 'Rules for Radicals'
- In the acknowledgements Alinsky called Lucifer the original radial, something that Carson pointed out onstage
- He then connected this thinking to Clinton suggesting that Alinsky was a dangerous role model for a future president of the United States
PUBLISHED: 04:48, 20 July 2016 | UPDATED: 06:27, 20 July 2016
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson veered off his prepared remarks on tonight's Republican National Convention stage to link Democrat Hillary Clinton to liberal radical Saul Alinsky and link Alinsky to the devil.
First, Carson noted that Alinsky was one of Clinton's heroes. 'This is someone that she greatly admired,' he said.
Carson then pointed out that in Alinsky's 1971 book 'Rules for Radicals,' the writer acknowledged Lucifer on the tome's dedication page, calling the devil the original radical.
Clinton, Carson reckoned, was guilty by association.
'So are we willing to elect somebody for president who has, as their role model, somebody who acknowledges Lucifer?' Carson asked the crowd.
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Dr. Ben Carson went offscript at tonight's Republican National Convention linking Hillary Clinton to liberal Saul Alinsky and Alinsky to the devil
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While Dr. Ben Carson touted Donald Trump too - he spoke of his concerns about draining God out of political life, suggesting the almighty would stop blessing the country
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Dr. Ben Carson left the presidential race in March at the Conservative Political Action Conference and endorsed Donald Trump a week later
'Think about that,' the retired brain surgeon scoffed.
Carson suggested that this kind of thinking was counter to the founders' thoughts.
'This is a nation where our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, talks about certain inalienable rights that come from our creator,' Carson said.
'This is a nation where our Pledge of Allegiance says, "we are one nation under God,"' he continued.
'This is a nation, this is a nation where every coin in our pocket and every bill in our wallet says, "In God We Trust,"' Carson noted.
The former presidential candidate than hammered the 'secular progressive agenda,' to which he believed Clinton was a part.
'If we continue to allow them to take God out of our lives, God will remove himself from us, we will not be blessed and our nation will go down the tubes,' Carson warned.
''We do not want that,' he added.
Enter Republican nominee Donald Trump,
'Now Donald Trump understands this very well,' Carson said.
He applauded The Donald for having a 'passion for the American worker' and being the 'right leader for a time such as this.'
'But, you know what, this is not about Donald Trump, it is not about me, it is about "We, the people,"' Carson said.
Like Trump, Carson had waged an outsider battle for the White House having spent the entirety of his career as a brain surgeon, known best for an operation that successfully separated conjoined twins.
Conservative Republicans took notice of him, however, in 2013 when he slammed some of President Obama's policies at the National Prayer Breakfast, which the president always attends.
Two years later Carson entered the presidential race being pressed by grassroots supporters to jump in.
Around Halloween Carson climbed ahead of Trump in the polls, but a series of missteps plagued the campaign. There were staff departures and gaffes. And by the time the Conservative Political Action Conference rolled around in early March, Carson officially confirmed that he was out.
A week later Carson surprised the political world by jumping behind Trump and has played an adviser role to the billionaire since.
[h=1]Like father, like son: Donald Trump Junior wows GOP convention as he says his dad specializes in 'accomplishing the impossible' and won't 'delete our problems'[/h]
PUBLISHED: 04:30, 20 July 2016 | UPDATED: 05:48, 20 July 2016
Donald Trump Jr. delivered a blistering indictment of Hillary Clinton and emerged as a high-profile supporter of school choice and gun rights on Tuesday night as he praised his father just hours after the elder Trump claimed the Republican presidential nomination.
'If Hillary Clinton were elected, she would be the first president who couldn't pass a basic background check. It's incredible!' he told a packed convention floor in Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena.
'Hillary Clinton is a risk Americans can't afford to take.'
Trump, 38, soaked up applause from thousands – and then tweeted: 'Now that was intense. What a rush.'
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'Hillary Clinton is a risk Americans can't afford to take,' Donald Trump Jr. told the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night
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Trump, 38, soaked up applause from thousands – and then tweeted: 'Now that was intense. What a rush'
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The younger Don and his sister Ivanka watched hours earlier as the New York delegation's votes put their father over the top and made him the official GOP nominee
He framed the Democratic Party as obstructionist and government-obsessed – and did it without naming them.
'The other party gave us a regulatory state on steroids,' he boomed. 'The other party is the party of risk.'
'The other party gave us public schools that all too often fail our students, especially those who have no options.'.
'Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class,' Trump said. 'Now they're stalled on the ground floor. They're like Soviet-era department stores that are run for the benefit of the clerks and not the customers, for the teachers and the administrators and not the students.'
'You know why other countries do better in K through 12? They let parents choose where to send their own children to school!' he exclaimed. 'That's called competition. It's called the free market. And it's what the other party fears.'
'They fear it because they're more concerned about protecting the jobs of tenured teachers than serving the students in desperate need of a good education.'
School choice advocates push for voucher programs that permit parents to send their children to private schools for which they qualify, and to do it with taxpayer dollars.
They see such programs as a path toward shuttering failing schools as families flee, and a leveling influence that allows poor parents to give their children opportunities usually reserved for the wealthy.
'We're going to make our schools the best in the world for every single American of every single ethnicity and background,' he pledged.
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The Republican nominee's oldest son soaked up applause from thousands on the convention floor and then tweeted: 'What a rush'
Trump cast Clinton, as his father has, as an anti-Second Amendment activist who would upend gun rights and erect roadblocks in front of the law-abiding who want firearms for self-defense.
'She says she'll issue executive orders to take away Americans' guns,' he claimed. 'She wants to appoint judges who will abolish the Second Amendment.'
'Just look at how effective those laws have been in inner-city Chicago, a city with the toughest gun laws in our nation, where 70 people were murdered last month alone.'
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'When people tell him it can't be done, that guarantees it gets done,' Trump Jr said of his father
Trump also made a pitch for fossil fuels, blasting Clinton for her vow to put coal mines out of business.
If she were elected president, he predicted, 'she'll throw every possible obstacle in the path of safe, reliable, affordable energy produced in America, by Americans, for American businesses and families.'
'Rather than being energy independent, our country will be forced to be beholden to her buddies in the Middle East.'
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He described his father as a tough-but-fair businessman 'who has a track record of accomplishing the impossible'
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Trump cast Clinton, as his father has, as an anti-Second Amendment activist who would upend gun rights and erect roadblocks in front of the law-abiding who want firearms for self-defense
And he declared the terror attacks that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya four years ago 'would be repeated, were she to win the election.'
'Those are risks we can't afford to take,' he added. 'And when we win, we're not gonna have to.'
Trump described his father as a tough-but-fair businessman 'who has a track record of accomplishing the impossible.'
'When people tell him it can't be done, that guarantees it gets done.'
The newly minted GOP nominee, he said, would be 'a president who knows we can't simply delete our problems, but that we have to tackle them head-on.'
'We've lost confidence in our leaders and faith in our institutions,' he said, in a dig at the Obama administration and its first secretary of state.
'But remember: We're still Americans, we're still one country, and we're gonna get it back.'
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The Republican National Convention drew delegates from every state and US territory
- The Republican nominee's eldest son delivered a high-energy speech at the Cleveland convention
- 'If Hillary Clinton were elected, she would be the first president who couldn't pass a basic background check. It's incredible!' he said
- He declared the terror attacks that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya four years ago 'would be repeated, were she to win the election'
- 'Those are risks we can't afford to take, and when we win, we're not gonna have to'
- Trump Jr. emerged as an advocate for gun rights and school choice
PUBLISHED: 04:30, 20 July 2016 | UPDATED: 05:48, 20 July 2016
Donald Trump Jr. delivered a blistering indictment of Hillary Clinton and emerged as a high-profile supporter of school choice and gun rights on Tuesday night as he praised his father just hours after the elder Trump claimed the Republican presidential nomination.
'If Hillary Clinton were elected, she would be the first president who couldn't pass a basic background check. It's incredible!' he told a packed convention floor in Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena.
'Hillary Clinton is a risk Americans can't afford to take.'
Trump, 38, soaked up applause from thousands – and then tweeted: 'Now that was intense. What a rush.'
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'Hillary Clinton is a risk Americans can't afford to take,' Donald Trump Jr. told the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night
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Trump, 38, soaked up applause from thousands – and then tweeted: 'Now that was intense. What a rush'
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The younger Don and his sister Ivanka watched hours earlier as the New York delegation's votes put their father over the top and made him the official GOP nominee
He framed the Democratic Party as obstructionist and government-obsessed – and did it without naming them.
'The other party gave us a regulatory state on steroids,' he boomed. 'The other party is the party of risk.'
'The other party gave us public schools that all too often fail our students, especially those who have no options.'.
'Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class,' Trump said. 'Now they're stalled on the ground floor. They're like Soviet-era department stores that are run for the benefit of the clerks and not the customers, for the teachers and the administrators and not the students.'
'You know why other countries do better in K through 12? They let parents choose where to send their own children to school!' he exclaimed. 'That's called competition. It's called the free market. And it's what the other party fears.'
'They fear it because they're more concerned about protecting the jobs of tenured teachers than serving the students in desperate need of a good education.'
School choice advocates push for voucher programs that permit parents to send their children to private schools for which they qualify, and to do it with taxpayer dollars.
They see such programs as a path toward shuttering failing schools as families flee, and a leveling influence that allows poor parents to give their children opportunities usually reserved for the wealthy.
'We're going to make our schools the best in the world for every single American of every single ethnicity and background,' he pledged.
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The Republican nominee's oldest son soaked up applause from thousands on the convention floor and then tweeted: 'What a rush'
Trump cast Clinton, as his father has, as an anti-Second Amendment activist who would upend gun rights and erect roadblocks in front of the law-abiding who want firearms for self-defense.
'She says she'll issue executive orders to take away Americans' guns,' he claimed. 'She wants to appoint judges who will abolish the Second Amendment.'
'Just look at how effective those laws have been in inner-city Chicago, a city with the toughest gun laws in our nation, where 70 people were murdered last month alone.'
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'When people tell him it can't be done, that guarantees it gets done,' Trump Jr said of his father
Trump also made a pitch for fossil fuels, blasting Clinton for her vow to put coal mines out of business.
If she were elected president, he predicted, 'she'll throw every possible obstacle in the path of safe, reliable, affordable energy produced in America, by Americans, for American businesses and families.'
'Rather than being energy independent, our country will be forced to be beholden to her buddies in the Middle East.'
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He described his father as a tough-but-fair businessman 'who has a track record of accomplishing the impossible'
+8
Trump cast Clinton, as his father has, as an anti-Second Amendment activist who would upend gun rights and erect roadblocks in front of the law-abiding who want firearms for self-defense
And he declared the terror attacks that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya four years ago 'would be repeated, were she to win the election.'
'Those are risks we can't afford to take,' he added. 'And when we win, we're not gonna have to.'
Trump described his father as a tough-but-fair businessman 'who has a track record of accomplishing the impossible.'
'When people tell him it can't be done, that guarantees it gets done.'
The newly minted GOP nominee, he said, would be 'a president who knows we can't simply delete our problems, but that we have to tackle them head-on.'
'We've lost confidence in our leaders and faith in our institutions,' he said, in a dig at the Obama administration and its first secretary of state.
'But remember: We're still Americans, we're still one country, and we're gonna get it back.'
- SHARE PICTURE
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The Republican National Convention drew delegates from every state and US territory
I read an interesting piece that Cruz will likely try to make the case that he should've been the nominee (obviously wording will be pretty selective here, not outright saying it) and set himself up for 2020.
Similar to Reagan at the '76 convention.
Already some rules being put into motion to make the early states closed primary going forward.
Here is what makes Trump different and better:
“A Beacon of Progressive Hope”
Here’s another whopper from Hillary Clinton – well, from one of her campaign’s recent flyers in Iowa: “Over the last eight years, this house has been a beacon of hope where progressive values have been protected [and] struggles for equality have been championed.” The flyer’s claim is Orwellian nonsense. The Obama White House has been anything but a progressive beacon. In reality, Obama’s presidency, like Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s before it, it has functioned precisely as predicted by the left historian Laurence Shop in Z Magazine in February of 2008:
“A Beacon of Progressive Hope”
Here’s another whopper from Hillary Clinton – well, from one of her campaign’s recent flyers in Iowa: “Over the last eight years, this house has been a beacon of hope where progressive values have been protected [and] struggles for equality have been championed.” The flyer’s claim is Orwellian nonsense. The Obama White House has been anything but a progressive beacon. In reality, Obama’s presidency, like Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s before it, it has functioned precisely as predicted by the left historian Laurence Shop in Z Magazine in February of 2008:
“Every four years many Americans put their hopes in an electoral process, hopes that a savior can be elected – someone who will make their daily lives more livable, someone who will raise wages, create well-paying jobs, enforce union rights, provide adequate health care, rebuild our nation’s infrastructure, and end war and militarism. In actuality, the leading ‘electable’ presidential candidates have all been well vetted by the hidden primary of the ruling class and are tied to corporate power in multiple ways. They will stay safely within the bounds set by those who rule America behind the scenes, making sure that members of the plutocracy continue to be the main beneficiaries of the system…It is clear that, at best, U.S. ‘democracy’ is a guided one; at its worst it is a corrupt farce, amounting to manipulation, with the larger population objects of propaganda in a controlled and trivialized electoral process” (L. Shoup, “Election 2008,” Z Magazine, February 2008).
"They will stay safely within the bounds set by those who rule America behind the scenes"
Shoup was OK until he arrived at that point. I've read this bunk since the first net forum opened, from dozens of posters. It's a few degress short of 9/11 conspiracy BS. There is no secret cabal. It's bunk.
Shoup was OK until he arrived at that point. I've read this bunk since the first net forum opened, from dozens of posters. It's a few degress short of 9/11 conspiracy BS. There is no secret cabal. It's bunk.
Cruz's only constituency if he has any at all are the litmus-test conservatives. Those who were campaigning
for Sharon Engle in Nevada rather than Suie Loudon ( who was way ahead of Reed in the polls for the senate seat),
and those who championed the disastrous Christine O'Donnell over Castle in the Delaware Primary. Polls showed
Castle leading Democrat Chris Coons by 10 pts., the New Castle County executive, and many Democrats
considered the seat virtually gone. They LITMUS TEST Republicans lost 2 sure senate seats offering up
candidates unhinged from reality.
Cruz would do much better in a parliamentary goverment rather than our 2 party system maybe garnering
10-15% support with some influence as kingmaker in multi-party systems. The idea that Cruz is the
favorite of most real conservatives is nonsense. In one of the most conservative states in the union
Alabama Republican 2016 exit polls reveal that his assumed constituency was never there.
http://www.cbsnews.com/elections/2016/primaries/republican/alabama/exit/
[h=3]White evangelical or white born-again Christians[/h]
Trump 43%
Cruz 23%
Those consider themselves conservatives
Trump 43%
Cruz 23%
Now he's starting to campaign already for 2020. He's an extremely unappealing figure.
If Trump doesn't win this year I predict there will be 2 or 3 ahead of Cruz come 2020
by New Hampshire he'll bow out. His VP pick this year before he got sent packing
was the funniiest event of the primary season. maybe in 2020 he'll ditch her
and go with Glenn Beck, or Mark Levin what a group!
Here are McIver’s remarks in full:
My name is Meredith McIver and I’m an in-house staff writer at the Trump Organization. I am also a longtime friend and admirer of the Trump family.
In working with Melania Trump on her recent First Lady speech, we discussed many people who inspired her and messages she wanted to share with the American people.
A person she has always liked is Michelle Obama. Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama’s speech as examples. I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech. I did not check Mrs. Obama’s speeches. This was my mistake, and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama. No harm was meant.
Yesterday, I offered my resignation to Mr. Trump and the Trump family, but they rejected it. Mr. Trump told me that people make innocent mistakes and that we learn and grow from these experiences.
I asked to put out this statement because I did not like seeing the way this was distracting from Mr. Trump’s historic campaign for president and Melania’s beautiful message and presentation.
I apologize for the confusion and hysteria my mistake has caused. Today, more than ever, I am honored to work for such a great family. I personally admire the way Mr. Trump has handled the situation and I am grateful for his understanding.
Updated at 5.41pm BST
My name is Meredith McIver and I’m an in-house staff writer at the Trump Organization. I am also a longtime friend and admirer of the Trump family.
In working with Melania Trump on her recent First Lady speech, we discussed many people who inspired her and messages she wanted to share with the American people.
A person she has always liked is Michelle Obama. Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama’s speech as examples. I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech. I did not check Mrs. Obama’s speeches. This was my mistake, and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama. No harm was meant.
Yesterday, I offered my resignation to Mr. Trump and the Trump family, but they rejected it. Mr. Trump told me that people make innocent mistakes and that we learn and grow from these experiences.
I asked to put out this statement because I did not like seeing the way this was distracting from Mr. Trump’s historic campaign for president and Melania’s beautiful message and presentation.
I apologize for the confusion and hysteria my mistake has caused. Today, more than ever, I am honored to work for such a great family. I personally admire the way Mr. Trump has handled the situation and I am grateful for his understanding.
Updated at 5.41pm BST
