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Trump ready to complete improbable rise at GOP convention
STEVE PEOPLES will face the nation as the chief, Calvin Williams, said
Republican Party standard- Sunday that it seems every-
Associated Press bearer, delivering what one is coming to town to
could be the most watched “exercise their First Amend-
CLEVELAND (AP) — A year convention speech of all ment rights.â€
time. The circumstances only
ago, few imagined Don- Trump will do so in a time add to the attention
of tumult at home and placed on Trump and his
ald Trump as a headline abroad, punctuated Sun- politically incorrect and un-
day by the fatal shooting of scripted campaign, which
speaker at the Republican three police officers in Ba- has successfully tapped
ton Rouge, Louisiana. into a wave of populist an-
National Convention — let Earlier this month the slay- ger that few others saw as
ing of a black man in Ba- the race for president be-
alone as its star. ton Rouge by white officers gan more than a year ago.
led to protests nationwide Trump has thrilled support-
Back then, maybe the bil- and heightened concerns ers with a willingness to hurl
about the state of race insults at Democrats and
lionaire New Yorker was relations in America. Presi- Republican alike, tearing
dent Barack Obama, re- them down them with pet
alone in thinking he would sponding to the shooting nicknames: “Little Marcoâ€
Sunday, noted that the in- and “Crooked Hillaryâ€
arrive in Cleveland this cidents had come just be- among them. Yet his lack of
fore political conventions discipline and disorganized
week as the GOP’s pre- that tend to involve “over- campaign has turned off
heated†rhetoric, and he many Republican leaders.
sumptive nominee for presi- urged both parties to avoid His blunt tone and aggres-
“careless accusations†in- sive approach to immigra-
dent. There are still some tended to score political tion and terrorism has done
points. the same with key seg-
Republicans trying to stop Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks dur- “Everyone right now, focus ments of general election
ing a campaign event to announce Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind., as on words and actions that voters: women, blacks and
him, but the party’s four- the vice presidential running mate on, Saturday, July 16, 2016, can unite this country, rath- Hispanics, especially.
in New York. er than divide us further,†According to any number
day coronation of its unlike- (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Obama said. of preference polls, Trump
But Trump, insinuating that heads into the convention
ly White House hopeful will Obama held some re- as one of the most unpop-
sponsibility, earlier blamed ular major party nominees
complete his rise from real a “lack of leadership†for ever.
that shooting and added All of it makes the conven-
estate mogul to potential Priebus said. “Not just what people running. It is a re- on Twitter, “We demand tion starting Monday must-
he was able to do in get- markable thing.†law and order.†Democrat see TV.
leader of the free world. ting more votes than any Indeed, the man who Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, “He doesn’t have natu-
Republican in the history of opened his campaign as echoed Obama’s words in ral filters,†New York GOP
“It was quite a journey,†our party, but do it with 16 a late night TV punchline a statement urging Ameri- Chairman Ed Cox said.
cans not to “turn our backs “Let’s see about the ac-
Republican National Com- on each other.†ceptance speech. That’s
In the days before the con- probably going to be the
mittee Chairman Reince vention was set to open, most watched accep-
Trump’s choice of Indiana tance speech ever, be-
Gov. Mike Pence as his run- cause it’s going to be dra-
ning mate was overshad- matic. People don’t know
owed by a terror attack exactly what it’s going to
in France and attempted be.â€
coup in Turkey. An estimated 30 million
Protests are widely expect- people watched 2012
ed outside the Quicken nominee Mitt Romney ad-
Loans Arena in Cleveland, dress the convention four
where the city’s police years ago.q
