CORRECTED - Trump will use speech to pledge law and order if elected | Reuters

CLEVELAND Donald Trump on Thursday will vow to restore law and order to the United States and create new jobs if elected president, making a case for why Americans should choose him over Democrat Hillary Clinton in a speech accepting the Republican Party’s nomination.

“I’m with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you,” Trump will say, according to speech excerpts released by his campaign.

Trump, in a speech at the Republican National Convention scheduled for 10:15 p.m. EDT (0215 GMT on Friday), will tell Americans that he will speedily address the violence that has dominated headlines, such as the shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers earlier this month.

Due to speak at the end of a four-day-old convention notable for a lack of policy details, Trump will offer a sampling of the policies he has said he will pursue if elected. Trump will speak in broad, thematic strokes without much detail, sticking closely to positions he has outlined over 13 months of campaigning.

“I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on Jan. 20, 2017, safety will be restored,” Trump will say. The winner of the Nov. 8 election takes office on Jan. 20.

Trump will also offer a searing indictment of Clinton, who was President Barack Obama’s first-term secretary of state, saying the United States is less safe and the world less stable since her time in that office.

“Hillary Clinton’s legacy does not have to be America’s legacy,” Trump will say. “The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them.”

He will say middle-income Americans and businesses will enjoy tax cuts and taxes will be simplified for everyone.

He would roll back federal regulations that he said cost the country $2 trillion a year, providing new wealth that will allow an upsurge in spending to repair roads, bridges, airports and tunnels.

“This, in turn, will create millions of jobs,” Trump said.

Trump, a New York businessman who has never held elective office, needs a strong performance to improve his chances of getting a boost in opinion polls as Democrats prepare for their own, more scripted convention next week in Philadelphia.

Trump and his aides have been unable to put to rest questions about whether they can mount a sophisticated campaign to take on Clinton’s well-oiled operation. He currently trails Clinton, who is seeking to become the first woman elected U.S. president, in most opinion polls.

The speech will set the tone for Trump’s next three months of campaigning, explaining why he feels Clinton is unfit to lead and why he would be better at improving the U.S. economy and handling the threat of Islamic State militants.

(Corrects number of officers killed to five from six, paragraph 3)

(Additional reporting by Emily Stephenson, Angela Moon, Michelle Conlin and David Alexander; Writing by Steve Holland; Editing by Peter Cooney and Howard Goller)

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