What
we learned from day three of the Republican convention
The third day of the
Republican national convention is over and done. Here’s a summary
of what happened:
Ted Cruz did not
endorse Donald Trump in a speech to the convention, and he was
lustily booed by a crowd that had cheered much of his speech to that
point.
“Please, don’t
stay home in November,” Cruz said. “Stand, and speak, and vote
your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you
trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.”
Then he stood and waved to thousands booing.
Newt Gingrich
came out after Cruz and said the crowd has misunderstood, that what
Cruz said was in effect an endorsement of Trump because Trump was the
only candidate faithful to the Constitution, see?
A sense of
deteriorating order in the arena was expanded by the flickering
malfunctions of the jumbotrons as Eric Trump attempted to follow
Cruz.
Vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence won an enthusiastic, if not
quite rapturous, reception for a smooth speech that framed the
election efficiently thus: “It’s change versus status quo.”
After Pence’s
speech, the last of the evening and on the late side of things,
Donald Trump came onstage to very strong cheering. And mis-kissed his
running mate:
The big finale
begins tomorrow just after 7pm ET, with Donald Trump, preceded by
daughter Ivanka.
Early in the
night, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham threatened to steal the
show with attacks on Hillary Clinton and the media and a call on Cruz
(not by name) to endorse Trump.
Marco Rubio
addressed the crowd by video before the Jumbotrons went out and said
it was time to unify the party and get behind the nominee. His pixels
were cheered.
A Trump staffer
released a statement inviting blame for the inclusion in Melania
Trump’s speech Monday of Michelle Obama’s words. Trump said “we
all make mistakes” and declined to accept her resignation.
The secret
service was investigating a Trump aide who said Hillary Clinton
should be shot for treason. The Trump campaign said the aide did not
speak for Trump.
Cleveland
officials said a flag burning that turned into a melee resulted in
the arrest of 18 people, bringing total RNC-related arrests to 23.
A woman at the
centre of sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump has spoken
for the first time in detail about her personal experience with the
billionaire tycoon who this week became the Republican nominee for
president.
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