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Donald Trump released a portion of the speech he will give Thursday during the final night of the Republican National Convention. Trump is expected to accept the Republican Nomination for President. Below is an excerpt of the speech. Friends, delegates and fellow Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. … Americans watching this address tonight have seen the recent images of violence in our streets and the chaos in our communities. Many have witnessed this violence personally, some have even been its victims. I have a message for all of you: the...

Below are Donald Trump's remarks accepting the Republican nomination as delivered. Where text is in bolded, it denotes a place where Trump's comment deviated from the original draft that leaked to the press. Friends, delegates and fellow Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. USA! USA! Who would have believed that when we started this journey on June 16th of last year we – and I say “we” because we are a team – would have received almost 14 million votes, the most in the history of the Republican Party, and that...

This speech has been completely memorized--no teleprompters--and it is powerful.This is Presidential. This is a deal closer.This speech is Churchillian.

Mark my words: This speech will put Trump even or ahead of Hillary in polls by Monday, when the Democratic convention begins.

Anyone else getting strange search results for the Trump speech on YouTube? Having to dig just to find it - under Cruz speech (?!), under Ivanka, that Late Show comedian rendition, and other miscellaneous stuff and older speeches. Are they trying to bury it? https://www.youtube.com/results?q=trump+rnc https://www.youtube.com/results?q=trump+speech

Donald Trump needed to give the speech of his life–he did that, and much more. He laid out an inspiring American Manifesto for our troubled times. And he did it his way. Not surprisingly, from start to finish, it is muscular and bold, leavened only by appeals to racial harmony and pledges of compassion for all. It offers a prominent nod to Bernie Sanders’ supporters in a bid to get some to jump the Democratic ship.

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The Republican National Convention clearly reached its crescendo on Thursday night. The four-day run-up until Donald Trump's accepting of the nomination, while giving a strong ratings performance, did not bring any atypical highs for the political meetup. Trump's speech didn't change that narrative by much. With all three broadcast networks and cable news networks now tallied for the 10 p.m. hour, it appears just over 32 million viewers tuned into Trump's extended time on stage. On the broadcast networks alone Thursday night, Trump's time on the stage brought in 12.3 million viewers to the 10 o'clock hour on through the...

Friends, delegates and fellow Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. Together, we will lead our party back to the White House, and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity, and peace. We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order. Our Convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation. The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life. Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not...