2016

2016

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Trump's Gettysburg address

  • 'First 100 days' agenda speech formalized his mainstay political pledges with promises of legislation and executive orders
  • Called it a 'Contract with the American Voter,' modeling it after
    the 1994 Republican 'Contract with America'
  • Trump touted 'the kind of change that only arrives once in a lifetime' and made his final substantive pitch to frame the campaign's last two weeks
  • Told an audience of about 300 invited guests that he will 'drain the swamp' in Washington
  • Borrowed a line from Abraham Lincoln's 1863 speech, saying he would replace D.C. elites 'with a new government of, by and for the people.' 
  • A Trump aide said the Civil War battlefield site is appropriate because 'Gettysburg was the moment when the war turned'
  • The candidate briefly visited the site of the famed Civil War battle after his speech 

  • TheTelegraph.UK

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