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REUTERS — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reacted on Wednesday (July 20) after U.S. Senator Ted Cruz cold reception at the Republican National Convention. “Wow, Ted Cruz got booed off the stage, didn’t honor the pledge! I saw his speech two hours early but let him speak anyway. No big deal,” Trump Tweeted after Cruz got jeered during his speech at the convention as it became clear he would not endorse his former rival. Cruz […]
by Michael Mathes Jennie Matthew CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Vanquished presidential challenger Ted Cruz stunned the Republican National Convention Wednesday by thumbing his nose at Donald Trump, refusing to endorse the party’s 2016 nominee and urging Americans to “vote their conscience.” Cruz received a standing ovation as he took the stage, but cheers turned to boos when it became clear the US senator from Texas did not come to Cleveland to back his former […]
by Brigitte DUSSEAU CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — They demand her imprisonment, paint her as above the law, and warn her election would trigger the Apocalypse — the Republican National Convention’s collective hatred of Hillary Clinton has proven an intoxicating unifier. Republicans may be split over whether to support Donald Trump, the brash billionaire whom the Republican Party elevated to its presidential nominee on Tuesday, and who has consistently blasted Clinton as “Crooked Hillary.” But […]
by Ivan Couronne CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Ted Cruz was addressing a crowd on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Wednesday when he was upstaged by Donald Trump yet again. Thanking his supporters more than two months after he withdrew from the primaries — his White House bid felled by Trump — the Texas senator was speaking in an open-air restaurant on Lake Erie a few miles (kilometers) from the […]
CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Police arrested 17 people Wednesday outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland after protesters tried to burn American flags. Two officers were assaulted and suffered “minor bumps and bruises,” Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said. Two people were arrested on felony counts and 15 others on misdemeanor charges. “There are people that don’t want to just protest,” Williams said. “Their only reason for being here is disruption, disorder and chaos.” […]
CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — A Trump staffer apologized Wednesday for using remarks by Michelle Obama in a speech delivered by Melania Trump at the Republican National Convention that ignited a deeply embarrassing plagiarism row. The speech from the ex-model, watched by millions on television on Monday night, amounted to a nightmarish start for the convention and subjected her husband’s presidential campaign to withering scrutiny. Melania Trump had “always liked” the Democratic first lady and […]
CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — Republican delegates savaged Hillary Clinton Tuesday by breaking into angry chants of “lock her up” and “guilty” as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie laid out a criminal-style case against her. While the FBI stopped short of recommending charges against the presumptive Democratic nominee over her email scandal, Christie, himself a former federal prosecutor went into attack-dog mode on the second day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. “Let’s do […]
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 CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — As an American city, Cleveland has suffered its share of distressing jokes — the river famously caught fire, after all. But the urban center is undergoing unprecedented revival that is transforming downtown, and this week’s Republican National Convention is the feather in this Ohio city’s cap. The community of nearly 400,000 was known for its steady population decline, as manufacturing jobs fled in the 1980s and 1990s […]
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 […]
(Reuters) WASHINGTON Republican White House rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich announced a deal on Sunday to stay out of each other’s way in some upcoming state primaries in hopes of blocking front-runner Donald Trump from winning the party’s presidential nomination. Cruz’s campaign said in a statement he would focus on the Indiana and give Kasich a clearer shot in Oregon and New Mexico, states where the Ohio governor expects to do well. Kasich, […]
