Trump tells Libertarians to nominate him, and mocks them when they boo - West Hawaii Today

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : Practically every time Trump was booed, his supporters responded by chanting, "We want Trump."
58% : On Saturday, hours before his speech, a number of Libertarian delegates -- who had paid to attend the convention -- arrived in the ballroom to find that Trump supporters had taken reserved seats in the front of the room.
56% : Throughout his remarks, the room's warring factions tried to drown each other out, a dynamic that immediately emerged when Trump was called to the stage.
53% : After speaking for 35 minutes, Trump offered a closing note: "You can either nominate us and put us in the position, or give us your votes."
47% : D'Anne Welch, a delegate from Texas, said she was stunned that Trump, a Republican, was given time to speak that effectively delayed the party's decision on its nominee, adding that she opposed his efforts to secure the party's support.
46% : Central to the Libertarian Party platform is a belief in limited government and unfettered individual liberties.
45% : He promised that, if elected, he would put Libertarians in his Cabinet and in senior positions, a vow that elicited some of the night's loudest cheers.Trump also promised to commute the life sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the black-market website Silk Road, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015.
44% : Libertarians tend to lean to the right on fiscal issues, opposing taxes, far-reaching regulatory agencies and government spending on defense.
42% : "Donald Trump doesn't fear dissenting views," he wrote.
40% : Well before his speech, the Libertarian Party's decision to invite Trump to its convention prompted acute outrage among some members, who said it undermined the party's integrity and gave a platform to a candidate who is, in many ways, utterly at odds with their beliefs.
39% : As he often does, Trump railed against government bureaucracy and regulation, remarks that were largely well-received.
37% : Early in his speech at the Libertarian Party's national convention on Saturday, Donald Trump told the party's delegates bluntly that they should nominate him as its candidate for president.
36% : When the jeers died down, Trump, visibly frustrated with the rowdy reception he had received ever since taking the stage, dug in and went a step further, seeming to insult the very group that had invited him.
35% : Some Libertarian leaders and delegates resented the notion that Trump or Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate who spoke to the convention Friday, might court their vote, calling those invitations a play for news media attention.
28% : Still, the reception was not entirely negative, with Trump able to find shared ground with the Libertarian Party on a number of issues.
23% : But as Trump tried to urge Libertarians to unite behind him in a shared effort to defeat President Joe Biden, he was greeted with a hostility absent from the friendly crowds at his rallies, which overshadowed his appeals to their common cause.
20% : Trump appeared irked by the chaotic atmosphere.
20% : During votes on official party proceedings Friday, one attendee shouted, "I would like to propose that we go tell Donald Trump" to get lost, using an expletive.
18% : "Mapstead has been a vocal critic of Trump, particularly his role in increasing the national debt.
13% : Trump lost that state to Biden by just over 10,000 votes.

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