Trump preaches unity as he accepts GOP presidential nomination days after surviving assassination attempt

Five days after surviving an assassination attempt, former President Trump pleaded for national unity as he formally accepted the GOP presidential nomination during the culminating moment of the 2024 Republican National Convention.

“I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America,” Trump emphasized as he addressed the thousands of delegates, party officials and activists packed into Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum and to the national audience of Americans watching the convention from home.

“The discord and division in our society must be healed. As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together. Or we fall apart,” the former president noted.

This movement has never been about me, it has always been about you,’ Trump said. ‘It has always been about the hardworking, patriotic citizens of America’.

Major Policy Points:

• the former president called for a lowering of the temperature in a political climate seared with heated rhetoric from both the right and the left.
• “In an age when our politics too often divide us, now is the time to remember that we are all fellow citizens – we are one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,” Trump stressed.
• “We must not criminalize dissent or demonize political disagreement. In that spirit, the Democrat Party should immediately stop weaponizing the Justice System and labeling their political opponent as an enemy of democracy, especially since that is not true,” Trump claimed.
• Making a pitch “to every citizen, whether you are young or old, man or woman, Democrat, Republican, or Independent, black or white, Asian or Hispanic,” Trump repeatedly criticized the administration of the Democratic incumbent in the White House, but only mentioned President Biden’s name once.
• “They will not have done the damage that Biden has done.
• He called the streets of the nation’s capital a “killing field”.
• Pointing to inflation, the crisis at the nation’s southern border with Mexico, and the ongoing wars in Ukraine and in Gaza, Trump argued that “it is time for a change. We simply cannot sustain four more years of this administration.”
• Trump reminded his supporters that the MAGA movement “has never been about me, it has always been about you.”
• “It has always been about the hardworking, patriotic citizens of America,” he said.

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