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Comment: Republican national Convention: Only in enemy unites
It would have been able to run for Donald Trump. The breakdown at the party drew from the content empty, and with Ted Cruz, there is now a valve for all the Frustrated, analyzed, Ines Pohl in Cleveland.
The process in which the two major parties in the United States select their presidential candidates, is brutal. For months, the intra-party pull of competitors through the big country and fight in the strongest possible terms. These clashes are always hard. And this year, without a doubt, a new low point was reached. Even the size of the gender has been negotiated in front of the cameras.
Feast of reconciliation
Because each of the candidates, including the winner, wounded in the end and is damaged, have the party days in the first line of the function, the party again. The extreme positions, with which they tried to distinguish themselves in the primaries, softer tones, soft rot, behind which the majority can gather. In a more or less honest celebration of reconciliation, the former competitor to rally behind the chosen candidate ask.
Ines Pohl, the US correspondent of the DW
This Congress in Cleveland, however, is different. From day one Donald Trump is degraded, the 2500 delegates, under the eyes of the 15,000 media representatives from around the world to viewers bombastic staged Trump festival. The house Lord is omnipresent. With helicopter fly-in, sends by the Golden video wall with messages from the Trump Tower down in the hall, sends wife and children to the stage, to ensure that no unit goes by without a member of the Trump family dominated the stage and the world is explained, what a wonderful, successful, strong, and great man, father and husband.
Entertainment content
Discussions about the party program for the presidential candidate of the Republicans in this soap Opera is no place. Why content, if it is entertainment?
Not all of the Republicans to this new reality. Many have come to this self-congratulatory spectacle of a man who has no intentions of, the practices of the party. Was hijacked, on the contrary, the party already, as the Republicans thought, still, is the nightmare to be over soon.
The Bush family, for example, is completely missing. Other Party leaders like John McCain have not forgave him for his derogatory remarks.
Ted Cruz refuses
A comes and fights. Ted Cruz, the Senator from Texas, accepts the invitation, and speaks. Twice as long as intended. The one sentence but, on the matters he brings over his lips. “I don’t hear support for Donald Trump”. Later, after he was Boo of the stage, he will declare that he will forgive Trump that this has offended wife and father.
For Trump, this attack comes as called. Because on day three of this Trump are boring games slowly very beautiful. The excitement of the speech of his wife, who had diligently copied from Michelle Obama, from the sounds slowly. The journalists start to do their job and to ask if there are plans for a wall on the Texas border on other topics.
Also, the delegates are getting restless. You feel that there are in addition a self-circular narcissists little, with Donald Trump for the party to return to the White house want to fight.
The ranks close
It does one good, to focus on the fourth and last day, all the frustration and all the anger at the traitor Ted Cruz. A few of them have understanding for the proud Texan. Most of the project but your concerned about the break-up of the party to him. In the end, it is exactly his Affront, the close ranks behind Trump. Maybe because it fits so well in the by-the-numbers structure, which had been against Hillary Clinton and their effect. So little Many can start with Trumps Person in politics and rhetoric, they are United in hatred of the candidate of the Democrats. One other common base does not seem to be for the Republicans at the Moment. It is a party that is United in the enemy.