▲ Donald Trump Jr. escorts his daughter, Kai Madison Trump, who presented an idyllic vision of her grandfather.Afp Photo

Jim Cason and David Brooks

Correspondents.

The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, July 18, 2024, p. 21

Milwaukee. For the third night, the message is that America can only regain its destiny as the world’s supreme nation if Donald Trump returns to the White House.

The theme of this third day was “Doing (a) America strong again” and the night began with the daughter of a Mexican immigrant followed by a Texan rancher, who accused the immigrants illegal They threaten the United States and transport illicit drugs. The primary global threat tonight and indeed all this week has been migrants and the open border.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott stated that Texas is the largest border state and therefore The United States needs a president who will secure the border.

He condemned that when Joe Biden came to the presidency he dismantled the measures that Trump promoted to control the border, “the result has been catastrophic… more than 11 million illegal have crossed the border.” Abbott said that will strengthen immigration laws, combat Mexican drug cartels and arrest illegal immigrants and return them. Send them back, send them back (bring them back), the thousands of delegates and guests chanted in response.

Other speakers included a former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the former head of national intelligence, a former House speaker and a businessman with businesses on the border, as well as a couple who focused on the energy sovereignty oil company.

Trump’s hybrid nationalist vision was emphasized, that everything revolves around what they call America First.

Again and again, speakers and videos offered claims that the United States is less secure and weaker under Biden, from the border to every front around the world to claims that several current conflicts would never have happened. There were no new wars, no invasion of Ukraine and no attacks on Israel under President Trump.declared a marine in a video message to the convention.

There was a parade of speakers who highlighted all of Biden’s failures and tragedies as commander in chief, from widows of soldiers who perished during the withdrawal from Afghanistan, to families who lost sons in wars over the past four years and were comforted by Trump. President Biden refused to acknowledge our loss. Donald Trump spent hours with uscommented a military widow. Joe has to go chanted in the arena as they listened to families who lost children in the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, followed by USA, USA.

Then there was a video denouncing the protests in solidarity with Gaza and the defense of the American flag in the face of alleged attacks by protesters – including the presence of students. patriotic who protected the flag, accompanied by a singer country intoning American Spirit.

Complaints were immediately made about the antisemitism The convention sparked by the Gaza conflict at universities in support of Trump’s promise to deport foreign protesters. Parents of an American Hamas hostage also showed up (obviously, there were no families of Palestinian children at the convention, nor were they mentioned).

The family

Last night ended with part of the candidate’s family. The surprise was the first speech by one of Trump’s granddaughters, who fulfilled her role of offering an idyllic vision of her grandfather.

The girl’s father, Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s eldest son, was in charge of introducing the new vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, and recalling that his father, when he was almost assassinated, showed the heart of a lionand that at that moment, he represented not only himself, but to the character of the country standing with his fist raised, and the flag behind him. He accused the left and its means of lie about his father. The faithful chanted again and again: Trump, Trump.

He’s not doing it for himself, he’s doing it for everyone here and everyone watching.he said, all for save the country we love. This November it’s a choice between America at the bottom or America first.and concluded by stating that his father will make his country great again.