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Republican convention live: Trump rejects speech writer's resignation Republican convention live: night three to feature Cruz, Rubio and VP pick Pence
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“I wrote this song for some friends of mine, it was a great big number one this year,” Janson says. If you like America, he advises, “make some noise in this house.”
He sings the song I Love This Life which as nobody needs to be told was a huge huge hit for Locash.
I love my boots broke in, I love my Camo hatDon’t mind a little paint on my jeans, yeah I roll like thatI love driving my truck across the railroad tracksIf you hit it too quick, it’ll hit ya right back
I love a fresh cut field with a first frost onHow it shines like gold when the sun turned onI love the sound of them wheels with my baby singing alongWhen “The Boys Of Summer” comes on
I love my small town world,I love a country girlI love a Friday nightMan I love this lifeThe sound of an ol’ dirt roadRollin’ through mindMan I love, man I love,Man, I Love This Life
I Love that county line bar where they all know my drinkThe way she throws her hands up when that cover band playsI love that taste of her lips when she’s been sipping that wineI still get drunk on her every time
I love my small town world,I love a country girlI love a Friday nightMan I love this lifeThe sound of an ol’ dirt roadRolling through mindMan, I love, man I love,Man, I Love This Life
Oh-o-o-o-ohMan I love this lifeOh-o-o-o-ohMan, I love this life(I love this life, I love this life, I love this life)
I love that ragged old barn that my grandpa madeIt was my whole world back in my innocent daysI love that little white church, out on 109It’s where I hit my knees and thank the Lord for this life of mine
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Now country music star Chris Janson is singing an up-tempo, dare we say country-punk cover of Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire.
“Make some noise, RNC!” Janson calls out.
Most excited delegation: California, home to Folsom and San Quentin. Least excited: saying Arizona, who are texting. Texas is waving their hats.
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Here’s country music star Chris Janson, singing his smash hit “Buy me a boat”.
Last night was disco and funk night. Tonight’s it’s country.
“Hey RNC how you doin’ tonight baby?!?” Chris Janson says. They cheer, and he goes into a harmonica solo that would give John Popper’s tongue career-ending cramps if he tried it.
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Here’s Sweet Caroline. And yes that’s Florida:
This room is full of awkward uncles at a wedding #RNCinCLE https://t.co/gLnTevJ0qE
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There’s the pledge of allegiance. Now Abby Paskvan sings the national anthem. She killed it, in a performance anticipated by her mic check earlier:
Not sure who that is warming up but she is gonna kill it pic.twitter.com/KGjkWQ0A8p
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The announcer has just interrupted the band’s cover of “Sweet Caroline” to ask people to take their seats and she basically ends up on the receiving end of a basketball-arena-sized Go to Hail. These people aren’t going to sit down in the middle of “Sweet Caroline.”
OK it’s over and here’s Reince Priebus again. He introduces a boy scout troop who are bringing in the flags.
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Introducing tonight's speakers
The first speaker tonight, according to the program, is Florida governor Rick Scott. Maybe he can get those wild partiers in his delegation to calm down a bit.
We’re also scheduled to hear from Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, senator Marco Rubio (by video), senator Ted Cruz, former House speaker Newt Gingrich plus Callista Gingrich, Eric Trump, vice presidential nominee Mike Pence and fake employer Michelle van Etten. The speakers’ list is as follows:
Florida Governor Rick Scott
Laura Ingraham, Radio Host
Phil Ruffin, Businessman
Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida
Eileen Collins, Astronaut (retired)
Michelle Van Etten, Small Business Owner
State Senator Ralph Alvarado, Jr. (Kentucky)
Dr. Darrell C. Scott, Senior Pastor and Co-Founder of New Spirit Revival Center Ministries
Harold Hamm, Continental Resources
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
Lynne Patton, The Eric Trump Foundation
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Video
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization
Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Callista Gingrich, President of Gingrich Productions
Indiana Governor Mike Pence, Candidate for Vice President
12.28am BST
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Trump on 'speechwriter': 'we all make mistakes'
Donald Trump has told ABC News that the Trump organization staffer who took the blame for allowing Melania Trump’s speech to proceed with borrowed lines in it had been with him a long time, is a “very good person” and he forgives her because “we all make mistakes.”
Transcript via Sopan Deb of CBS News:
In interview with ABC, Trump weighs in on Melania's speechwriter: "You’ve made mistakes. We all make mistakes..." pic.twitter.com/v7RCV8PlMX
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The delegates are all in the hall, and the band has once again begun. My Sharona is the hit cover tune of the moment. There’s some dancing. Especially among the representatives of a certain popular holiday state.
Florida have been drinking again
12.20am BST
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If you haven’t been watching the Infowars livestream, with conspirator-in-chief Alex Jones, you may have missed comedian Tim Heidecker crashing it and doing a pretty good Alex Jones impression (this is via Dave Weigel of the Washington Post):
There's now quality video of @timheidecker crashing the @RealAlexJones livestream https://t.co/jHCBwQQ7vn
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Mini-wall materializes around Trump starMini-wall materializes around Trump star
A border wall has appeared around the Trump star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.A border wall has appeared around the Trump star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The work is credited to the artist Plastic Jesus. Who paid for it? Your guess is as good as ours.The work is credited to the artist Plastic Jesus. Who paid for it? Your guess is as good as ours.
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Convention night 3 live streamConvention night 3 live stream
We’re pleased tonight to be able to serve up a live video stream of tonight’s proceedings. Here it is, courtesy of Reuters:We’re pleased tonight to be able to serve up a live video stream of tonight’s proceedings. Here it is, courtesy of Reuters:
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Trump plane trolls CruzTrump plane trolls Cruz
Cruz cut off by Trump plane: ‘That was pretty well orchestrated’ – videoCruz cut off by Trump plane: ‘That was pretty well orchestrated’ – video
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Trump at record-low with Latino voters
Sabrina Siddiqui
In the aftermath of defeat in the 2012 presidential race, the Republican party’s mandate was clear: make inroads with Latino voters, the fastest-growing bloc of the American electorate, or face the consequences at the ballot box, writes Guardian politics reporter Sabrina Siddiqui:
On Thursday, Donald Trump will instead formally accept the Republican nomination for president at the party’s convention in Cleveland with record-low approval ratings from Latino voters.
And even as Republican officials speak of ramping up outreach to the must-win demographic, the atmosphere is clearly affected by the real estate mogul’s unwavering line on immigration – from the unveiling of a Republican election platform, which emphasized the building of a border wall, to a speaking lineup that has included the parents of children killed by immigrants who entered the US illegally.
Many prominent Republicans fear Trump’s name at the top of the ticket in November poses a threat not simply for their prospects of winning the White House but also for holding on to majorities in Congress.
“I think we’re likely to have the largest turnout ever of Latino voters to stop Donald Trump,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who has argued that the party’s 2016 nominee would need at least 40% of the Latino vote to secure victory.
“He’s going to have to do dramatically better than Mitt Romney did among white voters to counter the antagonism he’s created among Hispanics.” [...]
In a poll released just ahead of the Republican convention, Hillary Clinton held a 62-point advantage over Trump among Latino voters, leading 76% to 14%. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo survey also found that 82% of Latino voters viewed Trump unfavorably, compared with just 11% who viewed him positively.
Read further:
Related: Republicans fear Trump effect on Latino voters: 'We'll need another autopsy'
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Farage: Obama 'helpful' in Brexit vote
David Smith
Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence party, has claimed that Barack Obama was unwittingly responsible for pushing Britain out of the European Union, reports Guardian Washington correspondent David Smith:
“I’m a huge fan of Barack Obama,” Farage said on Wednesday during a visit to the Republican national convention in Cleveland. “Without him we wouldn’t have won the referendum. He was very helpful.”
The US president visited London in April and made an impassioned plea to Britons to remain in the EU. The UK would be at the “back of the queue” in any trade deal with the US, he warned, speaking alongside David Cameron. The leave victory in last month’s Brexit referendum caught the White House by surprise.
Farage, speaking at a fringe event after meeting Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, suggested that Obama’s intervention had backfired and that politicians should not meddle in another country’s affairs.
“I shall always be grateful, eternally grateful to Obama because he came to our country, he was rude to us, he told us what we should do and he led to a big Brexit bounce of several points,” the leading Brexit advocate said. “So thank you, Obama, for helping us to win this referendum.
“The moral of the story is I shan’t say at the end of this week who I think you should vote for, although I have to say, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary if you paid me. Her sense of entitlement kind of puts me off.”
Related: Thanks, Obama: Nigel Farage says US president helped make Brexit a reality
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Laura Benanti nails impression of Melania Trump speech – video
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Triptych terror.
morning everyone how was the convention last night pic.twitter.com/eamawfACVb
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Is audience appetite for Trump waning? Has the nation hit saturation? Trump surrogates had said that 35 million people were watching primetime television coverage of the convention.
In fact, audience for night two of the convention was about 5/6 the size of the audience that watched the Fox debate at the start of the spectacle, the NY Times’ Mike Grynbaum reports:
19.8 million people watched last night’s RNC — less than the 24 million who watched Fox’s GOP primary debate back in August.
11.10pm BST
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Secret Service investigating Trump aide who said Clinton should be shot
The Secret Service is investigating a prominent Donald Trump supporter who said Hillary Clinton should be “shot for treason,” the AP reports:
Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback says the agency is aware of comments made by New Hampshire state Rep. Al Baldasaro. Hoback says the Secret Service “will conduct the appropriate investigation.”
Baldasaro said Clinton — a former secretary of state who’s the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee — should be “put in the firing line and shot for treason” over the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks tells NH1 News that Baldasaro doesn’t speak for the campaign.
(h/t @maraithe)
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Politicians: Janus-faced or what. Last night here in Cleveland, New Jersey governor Chris Christie had America’s most fervent Republicans on their feet yelling “Guilty!” and chanting “Lock her up!” as he “prosecuted” Hillary Clinton for “crimes” and misdeeds from Little Rock to Libya.
But it emerges that Christie missed his chance to make a citizen’s arrest in February, when he ran into Clinton on a CNN set in New Hampshire. Instead of arresting her, he gave her one of his trademark hugs, and asked her to “say hi to the president.” Here’s video of a snapchat video circulated today by the Clinton campaign:
Clinton campaign trolls Christie after anti-HRC speech last night, Snapchats video of very warm February encounter. pic.twitter.com/Y22PRXCWo7
as someone in the room when this occurred, i can tell you at least 1 Christie aide was v concerned this would happen https://t.co/HtO6yDVoui
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Meanwhile in Possum Trot
I stopped by Possum Trot, Kentucky today on our Town Hall tour. Great name. Last stop: Princeton, Kentucky! pic.twitter.com/a0vSSAU3pR
(h/t @timothymurphy)
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Trump disagrees with aide who wants Clinton executed
Donald Trump’s chief adviser on veteran’s issues on Wednesday declared that Hillary Clinton “should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.” (Earlier post here.)
But that’s not how the candidate feels, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks has reassured the Washington Post:
Trump spox Hope Hicks: "Mr. Trump and the campaign do not agree," that Clinton should be executed by firing squad. https://t.co/IWprpg2X1c
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Gingrich: Melania Trump 'stunningly attractive'
Former house speaker Newt Gingrich, who’s scheduled to speak tonight, has told CNN that Melania Trump’s plagiarism dabbling is not really a problem because, in part, “she is stunningly attractive.”
As Newt well knows, beauty gets you everywhere.
The Cut blog at New York Magazine captures the Gingrich statement:
“Who cares? The fact is Melania gave a good speech, she is stunningly attractive, she’s stunningly articulate, [and] most of the people who are criticizing her can’t speak five languages. She’s a bright person, she introduced herself in a way that’s attractive, [and] she’s obviously very passionate about America.”
This is going well. https://t.co/GCosI4WF2t