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ericson00

(2,707 posts)
Mon Jul 25, 2016, 06:06 PM Jul 2016

Sacramento Republican will rip Trump in Democratic convention speech

Source: The Sacramento Bee

On the night that Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, Sacramento Republican Doug Elmets, who worked in the Reagan White House and spearheaded construction of a statue of the late president at the California Capitol, will deliver a blistering critique of Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention.

In his Thursday night address, the Sacramento public affairs consultant will call Trump a “petulant, dangerously unbalanced TV star” and contrast him with Ronald Reagan, he said Monday.

Elmets previously said publicly that he planned to vote for Clinton. Still, he said people will be “a little bit shocked” by what he called a “pretty provocative” speech. In his remarks, he will seek to persuade Republicans and independent voters to shift their support to Clinton

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article91740782.html#storylink=cpy

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article91740782.html



keep 'em coming! Zell Miller was pretty effective for the GOP 12 years ago; we need our own version(s).
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Sacramento Republican will rip Trump in Democratic convention speech (Original Post) ericson00 Jul 2016 OP
Happy I'm the first to post about such a positive message ffr Jul 2016 #1
"Tear Down This Myth". Reagan was the worst president ever. His Reaganomics destroyed the middle cla bjobotts Jul 2016 #2

ffr

(22,671 posts)
1. Happy I'm the first to post about such a positive message
Mon Jul 25, 2016, 06:54 PM
Jul 2016

We need to welcome Republicans and Independents. That's a Big Tent message that we should all be proud to embrace.

Trump is the alternative. And a dangerous one at that!

 

bjobotts

(9,141 posts)
2. "Tear Down This Myth". Reagan was the worst president ever. His Reaganomics destroyed the middle cla
Mon Jul 25, 2016, 09:12 PM
Jul 2016

class and does so today. But Trump is so detrimental even Reagan would vote against him

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