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| Republican convention live: Trump speech excerpts released | Republican convention live: Trump speech excerpts released |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| 1.30am BST | |
| 01:30 | |
| The band played. Now here’s Representative Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee. She gives a special shout out to people watching the convention on Twitter. | |
| Here’s an excerpt of Blackburn’s speech released by the Trump campaign: | |
| We are in desperate need of true leadership and unity. The last eight years have been a challenge, to our national and household budgets, our Constitution, to the men and women who give their lives and sacred honor to protect both. Donald Trump is a leader who has seen challenges, learned lessons, solved problems, delivered results. Some of our greatest leaders have been people who worked in the real world, know firsthand how cumbersome rules and unnecessary regulations get in the way of greatness. I want a president who knows leadership is not as it appears, but as it performs. | |
| 1.23am BST | |
| 01:23 | |
| Here now is a video presentation by Bobby Knight, the former Indiana basketball coach. | |
| “As a coach my primary objective is to win and I know Donald Trump will always have winning on his mind,” Knight says. It’s a really short video and a pretty... lame? endorsement, for one of Trump’s favorite surrogates. | |
| 1.21am BST | |
| 01:21 | |
| Next up is Brock Mealer, a motivational speaker who suffered a spinal injury in a car wreck in 2007 and was told he could not walk again. | |
| Mealer walks to the lectern, using two canes. He says doctors gave him less than a 1% chance of ever walking again. “Truthfully, god made that 1% a reality – his will, not mine,” he says. The crowd applauds warmly. | |
| “And guess who else was told he only had a 1% chance?” is Mealer’s transition. “Mr Trump, welcome to the club. I defied the odds but I couldn’t do it on my own. Donald Trump can’t do it alone either. He needs our help and support.” | |
| Updated | |
| at 1.33am BST | |
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| 01:18 | |
| “A leader gets stuff done,” Tarkenton says. I’ve known Donald Trump for 48 years, and like those other leaders, I know for sure he gets stuff done... Donald Trump is a proven leader, a teambuilder... I’ve watched him.. succeed wildly. I’ve watched him fail because all of us fail. I’ve watched him get back up because he never quits.” | |
| This is a positive talk from Tarkenton. He asks the crowd to “go and win this game together.” Nary a discouraging word. | |
| 1.16am BST | |
| 01:16 | |
| Here’s a Fran Tarkenton highlight reel: | |
| 1.15am BST | |
| 01:15 | |
| Next up is Fran Tarkenton, the former Minnesota Vikings quarterback. “Right now I look at America, and I need to ask, what the hell’s goin on here?” | |
| He says Washington is “broken for everybody who doesn’t make their living inside the Beltway.” | |
| 1.13am BST | |
| 01:13 | |
| “Here in America the only colors that matter are red white and blue,” Burns says. Related: | |
| Related: Florida police shoot black man lying down with arms in air | |
| 1.10am BST | |
| 01:10 | |
| Here’s a charge of energy, suddenly: Pastor Mark Burns, the adamantly outspoken Trump-supporting South Carolinian. At the bottom of this post you can read the controversial invocation Burns delivered on Monday night. | |
| Burns practically screams that under a Donald Trump administration, All! Lives! Matter! – a popular viewpoint in this arena. | |
| He gets the crowd to chant All Lives Matter. | |
| They take up the chant: All Lives Matter! All Lives Matter! | |
| Burns realizes, or maybe seems to realize, that this is a potentially bad look for this room, in terms of projecting welcome to voters who may not be white. He ditches the teleprompter and says he disagrees with the tactics of Black Lives Matter, but “I understand that hopelessness and lack of opportunity breeds this type of desperation. This is true in many of our nation’s ghettoes.” | |
| Then he gets them to shout Together! Together! | |
| Then he promises that under a Trump administration, “all Americans will have jobs.” | |
| 1/ I've heard a lot of prayers by religious leaders of different faiths at RNCs & DNCs. But nothing like this. pic.twitter.com/RYfpn58TNi | |
| Updated | |
| at 1.20am BST | |
| 1.04am BST | |
| 01:04 | |
| Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona is at the lectern. Arpaio was subject for a time to an independent monitor after a judge found that his department engaged in racial profiling. | |
| “My most important mission has just begun,” he says. “To help elect Donald Trump president of the United States.” | |
| “As someone who for 35 years has been a top law enforcement official.. I can tell you firsthand about the dangers of illegal immigration and drugs.” | |
| He says “we have terrorists coming over our borders” and committing “massive destruction and mayhem.” | |
| He closes with calls to support law enforcement and the military. “Let’s elect Donald Trump,” he says. | |
| He seemed a bit subdued, actually, as did Falwell. | |
| 12.57am BST | 12.57am BST |
| 00:57 | 00:57 |
| Falwell: | Falwell: |
| “If you are a conservative, a decision not to vote, or to vote for a third-party candidate, is a de facto vote for Hillary Clinton... | “If you are a conservative, a decision not to vote, or to vote for a third-party candidate, is a de facto vote for Hillary Clinton... |
| “On the other end, a vote for Donald Trump is a vote to uphold the second-amendment right to bear arms.” Also to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons and appoint anti-abortion justices to the supreme court. | “On the other end, a vote for Donald Trump is a vote to uphold the second-amendment right to bear arms.” Also to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons and appoint anti-abortion justices to the supreme court. |
| Falwell quotes his late father telling Chelsea Clinton that the three greatest threats facing the nation were “Osama, Obama and Yo Mama.” Charming. | Falwell quotes his late father telling Chelsea Clinton that the three greatest threats facing the nation were “Osama, Obama and Yo Mama.” Charming. |
| 12.54am BST | 12.54am BST |
| 00:54 | 00:54 |
| Falwell: Trump is 'America's blue-collar billionaire' | Falwell: Trump is 'America's blue-collar billionaire' |
| Jerry Falwell Jr, the Liberty University president, is speaking now. “Most of our nation’s leaders have a strong faith as I do in our lord and savior, Jesus Christ,” Falwell says. | Jerry Falwell Jr, the Liberty University president, is speaking now. “Most of our nation’s leaders have a strong faith as I do in our lord and savior, Jesus Christ,” Falwell says. |
| Speaking to his students last year about the San Bernardino, California, terror attack, Falwell called for more guns: “I’ve always thought if more good people had concealed carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in,” Falwell said. | Speaking to his students last year about the San Bernardino, California, terror attack, Falwell called for more guns: “I’ve always thought if more good people had concealed carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in,” Falwell said. |
| “We have never met such a tender and loving family. I truly believe Mr Trump is America’s blue collar billionaire,” Falwell says. | “We have never met such a tender and loving family. I truly believe Mr Trump is America’s blue collar billionaire,” Falwell says. |
| 12.50am BST | 12.50am BST |
| 00:50 | 00:50 |
| In most polls Trump trails Clinton among women voters by 20-30 points. Campaign chairman Paul Manafort has just laid out how that could all change: | In most polls Trump trails Clinton among women voters by 20-30 points. Campaign chairman Paul Manafort has just laid out how that could all change: |
| On MSNBC Manafort says Trump can appeal to women bc: "They can't afford their lives. Their husbands can't afford paying the family bills." | On MSNBC Manafort says Trump can appeal to women bc: "They can't afford their lives. Their husbands can't afford paying the family bills." |
| That'll get 'em! https://t.co/Xj7da0f4Ij | That'll get 'em! https://t.co/Xj7da0f4Ij |
| Turned on MSNBC right as Manafort said women will vote Trump bc they're worried about their husbands/"can't afford their lives anymore" 🙃🙃🙃🙃 | Turned on MSNBC right as Manafort said women will vote Trump bc they're worried about their husbands/"can't afford their lives anymore" 🙃🙃🙃🙃 |
| 12.43am BST | 12.43am BST |
| 00:43 | 00:43 |
| There’s the band. First AC/DC cover of the convention. You Shook Me. The Florida delegation is up to its usual (drunken?) hijinks. Nebraska looks bored in their matching red shirts, with one delegate definitely sleeping (and it’s loud). Who else do we see. Texas is doing the swaying cowboy hats thing. GE Smith also looks bored playing the repetitive, simple yet impossibly catchy You Shook Me riff. Here’s the solo though. Take that thing for a walk GE. | There’s the band. First AC/DC cover of the convention. You Shook Me. The Florida delegation is up to its usual (drunken?) hijinks. Nebraska looks bored in their matching red shirts, with one delegate definitely sleeping (and it’s loud). Who else do we see. Texas is doing the swaying cowboy hats thing. GE Smith also looks bored playing the repetitive, simple yet impossibly catchy You Shook Me riff. Here’s the solo though. Take that thing for a walk GE. |
| Dancing and singing at a convention does not guarantee victory in November. | Dancing and singing at a convention does not guarantee victory in November. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 12.45am BST | at 12.45am BST |
| 12.40am BST | 12.40am BST |
| 00:40 | 00:40 |
| Perkins is done. Now there’s a video of Trump employees talking about how great he is to work for. The video features women executives. They say that the Trump organization is a great place for “women and minorities.” | Perkins is done. Now there’s a video of Trump employees talking about how great he is to work for. The video features women executives. They say that the Trump organization is a great place for “women and minorities.” |
| Last night we watched one video of a Trump organization executive paying tribute to the Trump family and one video of the Trump children paying tribute to their father. Tonight’s video is another edition in the series. | Last night we watched one video of a Trump organization executive paying tribute to the Trump family and one video of the Trump children paying tribute to their father. Tonight’s video is another edition in the series. |
| “He’s tough, he’s someone who gets thing done and attacks a challenge,” says one executive. | “He’s tough, he’s someone who gets thing done and attacks a challenge,” says one executive. |
| “The man is a machine... he works harder than anyone I know,” says another. | “The man is a machine... he works harder than anyone I know,” says another. |
| 12.35am BST | 12.35am BST |
| 00:35 | 00:35 |
| Tony Perkins, the family research council president, returns to the stage to speak. He’s not on the scheduled speakers list. | Tony Perkins, the family research council president, returns to the stage to speak. He’s not on the scheduled speakers list. |
| He says he’ll be voting for Donald Trump and wants to explain why. Great for Trump’s campaign for evangelical voters to have him here. | He says he’ll be voting for Donald Trump and wants to explain why. Great for Trump’s campaign for evangelical voters to have him here. |
| 12.33am BST | 12.33am BST |
| 00:33 | 00:33 |
| We’ve heard the national anthem and a prayer delivered in front of a projected purple sunset. (Just the prayer had the sunset.) | We’ve heard the national anthem and a prayer delivered in front of a projected purple sunset. (Just the prayer had the sunset.) |
| Updated | |
| at 1.01am BST | |
| 12.28am BST | 12.28am BST |
| 00:28 | 00:28 |
| Family Research Council president and evangelical Christian leader Tony Perkins leads the pledge of allegiance. | Family Research Council president and evangelical Christian leader Tony Perkins leads the pledge of allegiance. |
| Here’s what Perkins thought of Trump in March, according to a Washington Examiner report: | Here’s what Perkins thought of Trump in March, according to a Washington Examiner report: |
| “I am very concerned about what may happen in a general election, especially once a lot of focus is placed on Donald Trump, his past positions, his personal affairs, conduct, various things — I think that’s going to have an impact on the way evangelicals respond in the general election,” Mr. Perkins said on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers,” which aired Sunday. | “I am very concerned about what may happen in a general election, especially once a lot of focus is placed on Donald Trump, his past positions, his personal affairs, conduct, various things — I think that’s going to have an impact on the way evangelicals respond in the general election,” Mr. Perkins said on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers,” which aired Sunday. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 12.30am BST | at 12.30am BST |
| 12.25am BST | 12.25am BST |
| 00:25 | 00:25 |
| Heavenly Joy, her name is. Five years old, Priebus returns to the lectern to announce. | Heavenly Joy, her name is. Five years old, Priebus returns to the lectern to announce. |
| 12.22am BST | 12.22am BST |
| 00:22 | 00:22 |
| Priebus gavels final night to order | Priebus gavels final night to order |
| RNC chairman has gaveled the final night to a start. A super cute little girl with two gigantic white bows in her hair is singing Let There Be Peace on Earth. | RNC chairman has gaveled the final night to a start. A super cute little girl with two gigantic white bows in her hair is singing Let There Be Peace on Earth. |