Hello Everyone:
Yours truly is sitting down to watch the final night of the RNC Convention. Tonight we have live blogging from Blogger. Right now I am watching Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter of Republican nominee Donald Trump. So far, it is your typical fawning daughter speech. She seems like the true First Lady, instead of Melania Trump. At least her speech seems original, not cribbed from previous First Ladies. The delivery is more animated than Ms. Trump.
The candidate has stepped on to the convention stage to great fanfare. Mr. Trump. promises that the United States will be a country a warmth and welcome; law and order. Promise to end crime and violence. Cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore. Blames the current administration for upswing in homicides. Blames illegal immigrant with criminal records, roaming the streets. Citing the example of a young girl in Nebraska, who was killed by an illegal immigrant. Moves on to the economy. Citing the high unemployment statistics of African Americans and Latinos. Promises to fix the trade deficits. Infrastructure decay and international humiliation: Iran and Benghazi. Takes a swipe a Secretary Hillary Clinton. Calls for her defeat. Blames Madame Secretary for ISIS, Syria, chaos in Iraq, and the overthrow of the Hosni Mubarak regime. Calls for a change in leadership for a change in leadership.
Has "America First" plan. Americanism over globalism. Safety at home: security at home, safe streets, law and order. Will outline reforms to add jobs. Believes the system is rigged. Things have to change right now. Claims to be the voice of the forgotten people. Has no patience for injustice. Mr. Trump loves Cleveland. Person being escorted of the floor. Bringing up those emails. Calls it corruption at all an all time high. Calls them terrible crimes. Egregious crimes. Says Madame Secretary traded access for millions. Says he alone can fix the system because he knows it best. Seen it first hand. Calls on Bernie Sanders supporters to join him. Predicts that millions of Democrats will join his movement because he will fix it.
Acknowledged Governor Mike Pence, his running mate. Cited his accomplishments.
Cites recent shootings of police officers. Dallas and Baton Rogue. "Attack on law enforcement is an attack on all Americans." Promises to restore law and order to the country. Will appoint best prosecutors and law enforcement officials. Calls himself the law and order candidate. Calls President Barack Obama a divisive president. Failed inner cities on all levels. Promises to stand up for minority communities
Declares that we will defeat ISIS and do it fast. Cites past terrorist acts. Refers to Orlando. Promises to protect LBGTQ citizens from hateful foreign ideology. Focus on three thing: best intelligence gathering, abandon regime change and nation building, work with allies to stamp out ISIS fast. Wants to work with Israel to stamp out terrorists. Recently said NATO was obsolete and not paying their fair share. Announces NATO plan to combat terrorists.
Calls for suspension of immigration from nations with terrorist activities. Cites Madame Secretay's call for massive increase of refugee. Wants to admit people who support America and its values. Wants immigration system that works for the Americans. Refers to meeting parents of children killed by immigrants. Promises to quickly remedy the problem. Wants to build border wall. Wants to end illegal border crossings and "catch-and-release" program.
Wants to be compassionate towards American citizens. Promises relief from uncontrolled immigration.
Wants new fair trade policy that would lift up American workers. Signature feature of Trump campaign. Wants to make American rich again. Wants to bring back jobs to America. Will not let companies outsource jobs without consequence. Says Madame Secretsry supported husband's bad trade. Supported Trans Pacific Trade. America will never sign bad trade deals. Will make individual deals with individual countries. Will enforce trade violations of any country that cheats. Calls out China. Renogiate trade, including NAFTA. Calls for tax overhaul. Proposes to simplify codes. Says it will bring back jobs. Says new wealth will improve the lives of Americans.
Pro-school choice. Wants to repeal and replace Affordable Healthcare Act. Will fix Transportation Security Administration. Wants to allievate student debt. Rebuild military. Want allies to pay their fair share. Released 10-point Veteran Adminsitratio. Plan. Wants to audit every cabinet department.
Wants to appoint judges that uphold the Constitution. Will not nominate Judge Merrick. Endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
Acknowledges the evangelical and religious communities. Wants to uphold religious freedom-would protect religious institutions from losing funding if they advocate political views.
Time to show America is back. Acknowledges family. Fondly remembers parents. Wants to break free of the petty politics of the past. America will start winning again. Choose to believe in America. Asks for support to be champion in the White House. "I'm with you." We will we make America great again.
High energy on the arena. Speech ran a little long and high on bluster. Pointed what's wrong with everything but said little on how he was going to fix it.
On to Philadelphia and the Democratoc National Committee Convention.
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