The most popular tweet during Trump's speech came from Bernie Sanders
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Donald Trump's lengthy nomination acceptance speech was the talk of Twitter on Thursday evening, and it was Democrat Bernie Sanders who scored the most popular tweeted response. "Trump: 'I alone can fix this,'" he wrote, adding, "Is this guy running for president or dictator?"
Sanders tweeted throughout Trump's remarks, criticizing the GOP nominee on climate change, taxes, the Constitution, trade policy, and more.
Trump, however, made a small attempt at wooing Sanders supporters in his remarks. "I have seen first-hand how the system is rigged against our citizens, just like it was rigged against Bernie Sanders — he never had a chance," he said. "But his supporters will join our movement, because we will fix his biggest issue: trade deals that strip our country of its jobs and strip the wealth of country."
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
