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Republican Convention: Here’s What You’ve Missed So Far Republican Convention: Here’s What You’ve Missed So Far
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Donald J. Trump is officially the Republican presidential nominee — put over the top in a roll-call vote by his home state of New York — and we are off to a second night of speechifying at the Republican National Convention. Last night was all about the theme of Making America Safe Again (with a few borrowed phrases...) and tonight is about Making America Work Again. CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump is officially the Republican presidential nominee and tonight’s focus is supposed to be on jobs and the economy. Stay with us for the highlights (or watch live with our real-time analysis).
There will be Capitol Hill luminaries, the guy who runs Donald Trump’s Virginia winery, and, of course, a soap-opera-star-turned-avocado-farmer — how many of those can there be? Stay with us for the highlights (or watch live with our real-time analysis). • Mr. Trump showed up — virtually, from New York, on a Jumbotron to unofficially accept the nomination at little after 9 p.m. But for him, it was both a bit of a wooden and constrained appearance.
• Mr. Trump showed up — virtually, from New York, on a Jumbotron to accept the nomination at little after 9 p.m. But for him, it was both a bit of a wooden and constrained appearance. He watched on TV as his children helped put him over the top, he said, but gave little of substance without mentioning Hillary Clinton apart from his list of goals: “strong borders, get rid of ISIS, and we are going to restore law and order.” He watched on TV as his children helped put him over the top, he said, but gave little of substance, without mentioning Hillary Clinton apart from his list of goals: “strong borders, get rid of ISIS, and we are going to restore law and order.”
Mr. Trump will be back in Cleveland, live and in the flesh, with his running mate Mike Pence on Wednesday, and again to give his acceptance speech, on Thursday night. _____
• For several painful minutes, Paul Ryan, the House speaker, name-checked Mr. Trump, always linking him to Mr. Pence, the Republican vice presidential nominee, and he acknowledged, with some understatement, that “we Republicans have had our differences this year.” He focused on skewering Mrs. Clinton, saying that “they are offering you athird Obama term brought to you by another Clinton. And you are supposed to be excited about that.” • For a guy who was passed over for the vice-presidential nomination, and seemed to be kicked around by the Trump campaign at every turn, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey was the star of the second night.
Fact Check: He said poverty has gotten worse during the almost eight years of the Obama administration. In fact, the poverty rate did increase in 2009, after he took office, largely as a result of the economic collapse of the previous year. It increased in 2009 from 13.2 percent to 14.3 percent — largely during George W. Bush’s presidency. It peaked at about 15 percent, but has fallen back to about 14.5 last year, according to the Census Bureau. For about 15 minutes, he laid out one short indictment of Mrs. Clinton after another, asking after each, “Guilty or not guilty?” It was part red meat, part courtroom procedural, and with each query, “GUILTY!” resonated through the hall, interrupted only by an occasional “Lock her up!”
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• For several painful minutes, Paul Ryan, the House speaker, name-checked Mr. Trump, always linking him to Mike Pence, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, and he acknowledged, with some understatement, that “we Republicans have had our differences this year.” He focused on skewering Mrs. Clinton, saying the Democrats “are offering you a third Obama term brought to you by another Clinton. And you are supposed to be excited about that.”
Fact Check: He said poverty has gotten worse during the almost eight years of the Obama administration. In fact, the poverty rate did increase in 2009, after he took office, largely as a result of the economic collapse of the previous year. It increased in 2009 to 14.3 percent from 13.2 percent — largely during George W. Bush’s presidency. It peaked under Obama at about 15 percent, but fell to about 14.5 percent last year, according to the Census Bureau.
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• Tiffany Trump, Mr. Trump’s youngest daughter, was the first of his children to take the stage. She talked about the “sweet notes” he wrote on her childhood report cards; the looks of surprise on her friends’ faces when they would meet the real, “considerate” Mr. Trump; and a call she once received from him after the loss of someone close to her.
“I believe the measure of a person is revealed in their darkest times,” Ms. Trump said. “For me, the measure of a parent is based on how they support and bolster you when you’re down.”
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• Who is Andy Wist? He was the first to admit that no one should know, but he appears to have been selected to represent small business. (Turns out, he’s the founder of a company in the Bronx that waterproofs the exteriors of buildings, and employs 140 workers.) “Not as big as Mr. Trump’s company, but still pretty good, right?” he asked.• Who is Andy Wist? He was the first to admit that no one should know, but he appears to have been selected to represent small business. (Turns out, he’s the founder of a company in the Bronx that waterproofs the exteriors of buildings, and employs 140 workers.) “Not as big as Mr. Trump’s company, but still pretty good, right?” he asked.
“After eight years of President Obama, I don’t see the American dream like I did when I started out,” he said, blaming Mrs. Clinton. “Her only accomplishment is beating the rap every time she breaks the law.”“After eight years of President Obama, I don’t see the American dream like I did when I started out,” he said, blaming Mrs. Clinton. “Her only accomplishment is beating the rap every time she breaks the law.”
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• Michael Mukasey, a former attorney general who served under President George W. Bush, is one of the very few Bush alums to show up. He focused on Mrs. Clinton’s email use while she was secretary of state, noting that no one is sure whether she got hacked. But, he added, “We do know that the email of people she communicated with” was hacked.• Michael Mukasey, a former attorney general who served under President George W. Bush, is one of the very few Bush alums to show up. He focused on Mrs. Clinton’s email use while she was secretary of state, noting that no one is sure whether she got hacked. But, he added, “We do know that the email of people she communicated with” was hacked.
FACT CHECK: The former attorney general stayed pretty well inside the limits of what is known, or reasonably suspected. But he forgot that the Russians were inside the State Department’s unclassified email servers for years. So if Mrs. Clinton had played by the book — which she now says she should have — she would have been hacked for sure. Fact Check: He stayed pretty well inside the limits of what is known, or reasonably suspected. But he forgot that the Russians were inside the State Department’s unclassified email servers for years. So if Mrs. Clinton had played by the book — which she now says she should have — she would have been hacked for sure.
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• Maybe it was the multiple shootings over the last several weeks. But there seemed to be a muted reception for Chris Cox, the executive director of the National Rifle Association, who warned that the right to own a gun will be threatened if Mrs. Clinton was elected.• Maybe it was the multiple shootings over the last several weeks. But there seemed to be a muted reception for Chris Cox, the executive director of the National Rifle Association, who warned that the right to own a gun will be threatened if Mrs. Clinton was elected.
This earned him at least a modest response: “A Hillary Clinton Supreme Court means your right to own a firearm is gone,” Mr. Cox said. “Make no mistake, this election is not about the next four years. It’s about the next 40 years.”This earned him at least a modest response: “A Hillary Clinton Supreme Court means your right to own a firearm is gone,” Mr. Cox said. “Make no mistake, this election is not about the next four years. It’s about the next 40 years.”