“My pledge reads, ‘I’m with you, the American people,’” Trump said on the final night of the Republican National Convention. Trump did so by going after two of the GOP’s ripest targets: Clinton and President Obama. Trump vowed instead to protect gays and lesbians from Islamic terrorism, then ad-libbed when he heard the crowd react enthusiastically. But the portrait of unity and good cheer could not paper over the difficulties Trump faces. The foreign policy portions of his speech amounted to an assertion that, inexperience notwithstanding, he would still do a better job than Clinton keeping the country safe.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 21, 2016 22:07 UTC