The Republican Convention Featured Speeches From Trumps Presidential Rivals

7/17/2024 2:19:01 PM

(MENAFN- Newsroom Panama) One by one, Donald Trump's defeated rivals for the 2024 Republican nomination took the stage to sing his praises at the party's convention on Tuesday night.
From his box just above the convention floor, trump smiled at times as he watched his former opponents Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy voice their full support for his candidacy.
If there were any doubts that this was Trump's party, Tuesday's programming put them to rest.
“I'll start by making one thing perfectly clear: Donald Trump has my strong endorsement, period,” said Ms Haley, the former UN Ambassador who posed the strongest challenge to Trump earlier this year.
Haley, who served as the governor of South Carolina and Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, rattled off what she saw as Trump's foreign policy accomplishments.
“When Donald Trump was president, Putin did nothing. No invasions. No wars. That was no accident. Putin didn't attack Ukraine because he knew Donald Trump was tough. A strong president doesn't start wars. A strong president prevents wars,” she said, receiving loud applause.
She said Trump had asked her to speak at the event in Milwaukee in the name of“unity".
“For the sake of our nation we have to go with Donald Trump,” she told the crowd.
Ms Haley said in May that she would vote for the former president, but her headline speech on Tuesday was her most direct endorsement of the Republican nominee yet.
And when she declared her endorsement, Trump stood and clapped.
DeSantis also immediately made it clear that he was backing Trump.
“Let's send Joe Biden back to his basement and let's send Donald Trump back to the White House,” he said.
Neither Haley nor DeSantis initially had speaking slots at the convention, but they were added after the attempt on Trump's life on Saturday as Republicans
sought to project unity.

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