*“Nobody knows the system better than me — which is why I alone can fix it,” Donald Trump said in his acceptance speech.
Think about that for a moment. In his GOP nomination acceptance speech Thursday night, fearless leader Donald Trump says he’s the chosen one. He’s the “law and order” candidate.
No matter how you look at it as ABC News reminds, Trump, with the help of his daughter on Thursday, may or may not have saved his own convention, after the campaign’s self-imposed distractions and a hostile takeover attempt by a scorned rival. That media-ready candy replaced the meager policy vegetables offered up by speakers earlier in the week -– sideshows that were novel yet somehow predictable at Trump convention.
But whether Trump succeeds more broadly in the election will depend on grim calculations: that voters see the country as broken and beaten, and that they will reject Trump’s rival as corrupt, criminal, or worse.
Those twin themes are apparent in the way Trump has rewritten a Hillary Clinton campaign slogan -– “I’m with her” -– for his own purposes.
“My pledge reads: ‘I’m with you – the American people,’” Trump said.
Trump’s speech was a gloomy exclamation point on a run-on sentence of a convention. After the first three days meandered through major themes, Trump on Thursday marched through a parade of horribles: poverty, crime, terrorism, illegal immigration, trade, unemployment, war and Hillary Clinton.
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