In one of the most dramatic, polarizing, not to mention longest ever (at 75 minutes, it was the longest since 1972), convention speeches, Donald Trump claimed the Republican presidential nomination with a highly charged text in which he promised to be “the voice” of disenfranchised Americans and the guardian of “law and order” as president.
“Friends, delegates and fellow Americans, I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States,” Trump said to raucous chants of “USA, USA, USA” from the delegates in the Quicken Loans arena in Cleveland.
“Our plan will put America First. Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo,” Trump repeated on Thursday. “The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home, which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders and protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order.”
“Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned,” Trump said in a prime-time speech that lasted for more than an hour. “These are the forgotten men and women of our country. People who work hard but no longer have a voice. I am your voice.”
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