Friday 22 July 2016

Why Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, was the unifying figure at the RNC

For an event dedicated to the naming of Donald Trump as presidential nominee, theRepublican National Convention‘s big name wasn’t always Trump — it was his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

The speakers and delegates fixated on disparaging Clinton at the convention, at times more so than praising Trump, drowning the stadium in boos and “lock her up” chants at the sound of her name.

Speaker after speaker called out Clinton for everything from the email scandals to jeopardizing national security to being the direct cause of ISIS’s growth in the Middle East.

On the second night of the convention, the few Republican Party speakers who dared to show, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, mentioned Clinton almost four times more than they mentioned Trump in their speeches. For the full article click here 



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