Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, told reporters after his own speech on Friday that a 15-week ban was a “consensus position.”“The deal oug
Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, told reporters after his own speech on Friday that a 15-week ban was a “consensus position.”
“The deal ought to be 15 weeks,” Mr. Hawley said. “There, made it easy.”
Mr. Pence received a polite reception in the familiar crowd, but there was notably louder applause for his statement that Mr. Biden must never been re-elected than his own declaration that he was running for president. And the applause was even louder when he vowed, “We will end the gender ideology that is running rampant in our schools,” as transgender politics have emerged as a leading motivator on the right.
“God is real, unborn life is life, there are two genders,” Vivek Ramaswamy, another Republican candidate for president, said in his speech on Friday.
The uphill battle for Mr. Trump’s rivals, however, was apparent throughout.
Chris Christie, the former governor New Jersey, was booed by the crowd as he criticized Mr. Trump and the former president’s penchant for blaming aides for his own shortcomings. “That is not leadership, everybody,” he said, “That is s a failure of leadership.”
The crowd hissed, with some shouting “We love Trump!”
“You can love him all you want, but I can tell you, doing that kind of thing makes our country smaller,” Mr. Christie retorted.
Earlier, when Mark Robinson, the lieutenant governor of North Carolina who is running for governor, made a surprise endorsement onstage of Mr. Trump, he was greeted by a deafening ovation as loud or louder than any that Mr. Trump’s rivals had received.
“This nation is at war,” Mr. Robinson said. “We need a warrior.”
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