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| Republican Convention Night 3: What You’ve Missed So Far | Republican Convention Night 3: What You’ve Missed So Far |
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| All eyes will be on Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana as he is expected to accept the vice presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, its third night, and make the case for Donald J. Trump as a Christian and a conservative. | |
| Keeping in the line of “Making America” something, tonight’s theme is “Making America First Again,” and will feature speeches by Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker; Eric Trump, one of his sons; and Senator Ted Cruz, one of his former rivals. | |
| Here are the highlights (or watch live video and check out our real-time analysis): | Here are the highlights (or watch live video and check out our real-time analysis): |
| • Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a one-time Trump rival, declared that Americans should choose Mr. Trump over Mrs. Clinton, repeating that “America deserves better!” He said he had always been clear that he would support any Republican against her in the general election. | |
| Fact Check: He was never an enthusiastic Trump fan. Mr. Walker endorsed Senator Ted Cruz of Texas ahead of the Wisconsin primary, and later, expressed disappointment that Mr. Trump would be the party’s standard-bearer. “It’s just sad in America that we have such poor choices right now,” Mr. Walker said. | |
| • Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, another former Trump rival, once called Mr. Trump a “con man,” and worse, as he fought a bitter campaign. But on Wednesday, Mr. Rubio appeared in a brief video to concede that “the time for fighting each other is over.” The video was hardly full of enthusiasm, but he did urge voters to choose Mr. Trump over Mrs. Clinton. | |
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| • Laura Ingraham, the conservative radio talk-show host, energized the crowd with verbal attacks on two targets: Mrs. Clinton and the media. Ms. Ingraham called her the “woman who helped orchestrate America’s decline,” and she drew chants of “Lock her up!” when she said that “many in public office don’t enforce or respect the rule of law — isn’t that right, Mrs. Clinton?” She called the media her “friends,” but she accused journalists of not reporting on “the phonies, the frauds and the corruption that has gone unexposed and uncovered for too long.” | • Laura Ingraham, the conservative radio talk-show host, energized the crowd with verbal attacks on two targets: Mrs. Clinton and the media. Ms. Ingraham called her the “woman who helped orchestrate America’s decline,” and she drew chants of “Lock her up!” when she said that “many in public office don’t enforce or respect the rule of law — isn’t that right, Mrs. Clinton?” She called the media her “friends,” but she accused journalists of not reporting on “the phonies, the frauds and the corruption that has gone unexposed and uncovered for too long.” |
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| • Pam Bondi, the attorney general of Florida, emphasized “laws” in her remarks, using that theme to call attention to the fatal shooting of three police officers in Baton Rouge, La., on Sunday. She drove home her riff by saying, “now more than ever, laws that back our law enforcement. They have our backs, and Donald Trump will have your backs.” | • Pam Bondi, the attorney general of Florida, emphasized “laws” in her remarks, using that theme to call attention to the fatal shooting of three police officers in Baton Rouge, La., on Sunday. She drove home her riff by saying, “now more than ever, laws that back our law enforcement. They have our backs, and Donald Trump will have your backs.” |
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| • Gov. Rick Scott of Florida quickly moved to an indictment of President Obama’s foreign policy, questioning the United States’s response to various attacks. His speech drove the crowd into varied cheers and chants, including the “Lock her up!” crowd favorite in reference to Hillary Clinton. Mr. Trump, he said, was perfectly fit for the election year: “Who better to tell politicians you’re fired than Donald Trump.” | |
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| • Eileen Collins, the first woman to lead a space shuttle mission, may be the only speaker at the convention to appear onstage without once mentioning the Republican Party, Mr. Trump, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama or any other politicians. Instead, on the 47th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon, Ms. Collins offered a gauzy appeal for America to be a “nation of explorers.” One thing she never said: Support Mr. Trump for president. | • Eileen Collins, the first woman to lead a space shuttle mission, may be the only speaker at the convention to appear onstage without once mentioning the Republican Party, Mr. Trump, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama or any other politicians. Instead, on the 47th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon, Ms. Collins offered a gauzy appeal for America to be a “nation of explorers.” One thing she never said: Support Mr. Trump for president. |
| • Mr. Trump is extremely unpopular with the Hispanic population, as numerous polls have shown, but he is not without support in the community. Ralph Alvarado, a state senator from Arkansas, took the stage to proclaim, in English and in Spanish, why Hispanics should back Mr. Trump against Mrs. Clinton. | |
| “Hispanics believe what Republicans believe,” he declared, listing off “religious liberty,” support of the Second Amendment and free speech as key examples. In Spanish, he addressed his “hermanos Hispanos,” or Hispanic brothers, saying that their families had fled countries that were plagued by corruption, and urging them to not let that corruption plague the United States. |