CLEVELAND, United States (AFP) — The following is a selection of reaction on Twitter to New York billionaire Donald Trump’s speech on Thursday accepting the Republican Party nomination for president:
Bernie Sanders, former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination
@BernieSanders
Trump: “I alone can fix this.” Is this guy running for president or dictator?
Laura Ingraham, conservative host of the Laura Ingraham Show
@IngrahamAngle
This is @realDonaldTrump broadening the base of the GOP. The inner city will no longer be neglected. They have suffered under Obama.
Stephen King, author
@StephenKing
That wasn’t a convention. It was something closer to a lynch mob. Republicans, you should hang your heads in shame.
Ari Fleischer, former White House spokesman for President George W. Bush
@AriFleischer
For everyone saying this speech is “too dark”, remember – 69pc of the nation thinks the USA is on the wrong track. Many will agree w Trump.
Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential nominee
@HillaryClinton
We are better than this.
David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
@DrDavidDuke
Great Trump Speech, America First! Stop Wars! Defeat the Corrupt elites! Protect our Borders! Fair Trade! Couldn’t have said it better!
Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion
@Kasparov63
I’ve heard this sort of speech a lot in the last 15 years and trust me, it doesn’t sound any better in Russian.
Michelle Malkin, conservative blogger
@michellemalkin
Trump is addressing the real concerns of people ignored outside the Beltway by both parties. Elites find this “depressing,” apparently.
Meghan McCain, daughter of Republican Senator John McCain
@MeghanMcCain
The party I was part of is dead.
Michael Cohen, Boston Globe columnist
@speechboy71
This is the bleakest, darkest, most fascistic speech I’ve ever heard delivered by an American politician
Bill Kristol, founder of the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard
@BillKristol
Trump’s speech wasn’t a speech in the normal sense, with pace & rhythm & argument. It was a shouted series of assertions. Which might work.
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