He is due to make a speech to accept the nomination on Thursday night at the climax of the convention.
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The roll call will proceed alphabetically, with states announcing their votes for Trump, Cruz and the other candidates along the way.
“We have gotten off course and the American people know it”, he said. Tonight, at Quicken Loans Arena, the prize is his. It will have happened.
Republicans also placed IN governor Mike Pence’s name on the nomination for vice president. “And better yet, in the President of the United States”. The truth of the matter is, the agenda of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has weakened America’s place in world and stifled our nation’s economy. “They’re not even sentences”. The situation created a major distraction for the Trump campaign and the Republican convention machine that Priebus oversees. It turned out, though, that the primary rules for those two declared that if there were only one candidate for president in play at the convention, all those votes would go to that candidate rather than whomever they were originally bound to. “Donald Trump is a movement”. But it’s mostly been peaceful.
Security forces were on high alert in Cleveland.
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As for the institution where Dole spent four decades (from 1961 to 1996), Dole said he thinks Trump can work with Congress.
“The message for me was never about rhetoric”, Kasich told a crowd of about 2,000.
Paul Manafort, Trump campaign chair, to CNN:”There’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech”. That the “team of writers” who worked on her speech “included fragments that reflected her own thinking”.
“I mean, this is, once again, an example of when a woman threatens Hillary Clinton, how she seeks out to demean her and take her down”. I kept thinking, what’s this like?
The hotelier’s son, Donald Trump Jr, revealed NY delegates had given their support to his father, saying: “It is my honour to throw Donald Trump over the top with 89 delegates, congratulations Dad, we love you”.
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Should there be any disruption, it would be the second day of floor protests at the convention.
She tweeted: “Donald Trump just became the Republican nominee”.
Typically in both parties, the roll call is heavy with ceremonial flourishes, good cheer and puffery about the virtues of each state. “We will win in November”.
And of course there’s family: Donald Trump Jr. We have been hearing about that number, of course, for months.
With that, a huge screen flashed the words “Over The Top” in big bold letters as the song “New York, New York” boomed over the loudspeakers. This time, it’s also another opportunity for discord to be heard.
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His nomination came after a somewhat tumultuous first day at the Republican National Convention. That’s what coming up. “They’ve got injuries.They sent in the riot squad”.
