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Trump Uses Teleprompter To Reassure Republicans He Will Be Presidential
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Donald Trump used a teleprompter to deliver his speech promoting unity and his vision for the presidency Tuesday.
Donald Trump spoke Tuesday in an effort to reassure Republicans who are uncomfortable about the front-runner’s recent comments. Trump has referenced party unity before, but the main difference in this speech was Trump’s use of a teleprompter. In the speech, Trump responded to Republican concerns, saying, “I understand the responsibility of carrying the mantle of the Republican Party. I will never, ever let you down.”
Going further, Trump said that he aimed to “make you proud of our party and our movement.” Trump was clearly trying to style himself as the party-unifier. Fundraising efforts have met with pushback after the comments that Trump made about the judge overseeing the Trump University case. Top fundraiser Ron Weiser said that the statements “obviously made it more difficult” to raise money this week.
Shortly after the speech, Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus tweeted that Trump had used “exactly the right approach” in attempting to unite the party behind his movement.
As he rarely uses them himself, in the past, Trump used his opponents’ use of a teleprompter to his advantage, repeating in his stump speech that he “doesn’t use teleprompters.”
During the early days of the Republican primary in October, Trump criticized his opponents: “I’ve always said, if you run for president, you shouldn’t be allowed to use teleprompters, because then you don’t know if a guy is honest.”
In another speech that month, Trump added, “We should have non-teleprompter speeches… you find out about people, the other way you don’t find out about anybody.”
In an interview that Sen. Mitch McConnell gave Tuesday, he described a time that he was backstage with Trump. The senator asked Trump if he had his speech, and Trump responded by pulling a piece of paper out of his jacket, but said that he didn’t want to use the notes, because that made speaking boring and structured. Judging by the speech Tuesday evening, boring and structured just might be what the establishment want out of their candidate.
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