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CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump’s eldest son on Tuesday electrified the Republican National Convention with a passionate speech painting his “best friend” and father as the candidate most qualified to lead America. It was a sweeping speech peppered with personal anecdotes seeking to humanize his father and which sought to expand Trump’s paltry appeal among minorities, presenting him as a man who can do the impossible. Donald Trump Jr, a married father of […]
CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — The Republican Party formally nominated Donald Trump for president of the United States Tuesday, capping a roller-coaster campaign that saw the billionaire tycoon defeat 16 White House rivals. “It’s my honor to be able to throw Donald Trump over the top in the delegation count tonight,” his son Donald Trump Jr told delegates at the Republican National Convention which erupted in cheers and applause. Trump is expected to formally accept […]
CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — The Republican National Convention began the formal roll call vote Tuesday that will culminate in delegates nominating billionaire Donald Trump for president. “The great state of Alabama… is proud to cast its votes: 1 vote for Marco Rubio, 13 for Ted Cruz, and 36 votes for the next president of the United States, Donald J. Trump!” US Senator Jeff Sessions said as he launched the process. The real estate magnate […]
by Michael Mathes Andrew BEATTY CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump looked to his wife Melania to put the Republican convention back on track Monday, after a chaotic first day dominated by a stunning open revolt against his White House bid. Jeers and yells filled the convention floor in Cleveland, Ohio and echoed across the political landscape, as simmering divisions among thousands of Republican delegates spilled out into the open. Anti-Trump Republicans — outraged […]
by Andrew BEATTY CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — The Republican convention kicks off Monday with a one-two punch of law-and-order tough-talk, and Donald Trump’s wife playing character witness as the bombastic mogul seeks to lock up his presidential nomination. Melania Trump, a Slovenian-born former model, will headline the opening night of the 2016 convention in Cleveland, Ohio, which takes place against a backdrop of fear over racial violence and unrest abroad. A spate of race-tinged […]
by Jennie MATTHEW CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Cleveland deployed overwhelming security Sunday, bracing for possible unrest as delegates poured into town for the Republican National Convention that will anoint Donald Trump as the party’s US presidential nominee. The killing of three police officers Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana only added to the tensions in Cleveland, where law enforcement agencies have thrown a ring of steel around downtown and anti-Trump demonstrators began marching toward the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump postponed announcing his pick for running mate, which had been scheduled for Friday, following a Nice attack that has left some 70 people dead. “In light of the horrible attack in Nice, France, I have postponed tomorrow’s news conference concerning my Vice Presidential announcement” Trump posted on Twitter Thursday. The deaths occurred when a truck ploughed into a crowd watching a Bastille Day fireworks display […]
INDIANA, United States (Reuters) — Presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Tuesday (July 12) the five police officers who were killed in the Dallas sniper attack were “great, great people.” “We pray for our country,” Trump said at a rally in Westfield, Indiana. “The police are just not part of our society, our police are the best of our society.” Trump, a wealthy real estate developer, has been presenting himself as “the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Conservative billionaire power broker Charles Koch said Monday he is not backing Donald Trump, claiming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s principles are “antithetical” to his. In an interview at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado, Koch spoke about Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, saying: “I see two people that as of this point we’re not supporting.” “If I had to vote for cancer or a heart […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico’s president hit back Sunday at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s claim that if elected, he would make Mexico build a wall along its US border. The bombastic billionaire has promised to crack down on illegal immigration and insulted Mexican immigrants by calling them rapists, criminals and drug dealers. As his party’s presumptive presidential candidate, Trump is now eyeing a clash in the November election with his Democratic rival Hillary […]
by Daniel WOOLLS WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Like a victorious general, Donald Trump visited Capitol Hill Thursday to meet with Republican lawmakers scrambling to put up a united front behind him as the party convention nears. But in a sign of the bad blood, if not outright disgust, that Trump still stirs as the presumptive presidential nominee, some key lawmakers found reasons to skip the meetings, one with House members and another with senators. […]
by Jennie MATTHEW NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump’s pick for vice president could make or break his hopes of defeating Hillary Clinton in the US election. But who’s being vetted and who actually wants the job is another question. The New York businessman has spoken of his desire to find a seasoned politician who can help force legislation through Congress and offset his lack of political experience. A sensible choice might help […]
