REACTION TO DONALD TRUMP'S SPEECH:
* CNN snap poll of viewers of the speech
- 57 per cent had a "very positive reaction" to the address
- 18 per cent a somewhat positive reaction
- 24 per cent said it had a negative effect
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* Social media
- based on tweets that mentioned Trump's name was slightly more negative than positive shortly after his speech
* Hillary Clinton
- Clinton senior adviser John Podesta dismissed the speech as painting "a dark picture of an America in decline"
- called it a reminder Trump "is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the United States"
* Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich
- Kasich senior adviser John Weaver said in a tweet Trump had delivered the "saddest, darkest, most depressing acceptance speech in modern history".
