United for a night, Republicans nominated Donald Trump Tuesday as their presidential standard-bearer, capping the billionaire businessman’s stunning takeover of the GOP and propelling him into a November faceoff with Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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Behind the scenes, party leaders had to snuff out one final effort to force a divisive fight on the floor over nominating Mr. Trump.
Donald Trump garnered enough delegates to officially be named the GOP presidential nominee.
After 24 hours of confusion and the campaign’s resistance to admit to plagiarism, it seems America finally has an answer from the Trump campaign confirming it was plagiarism and that a close friend might be responsible.
Saying “we’re going to have strong borders, we’re going to get rid of ISIS and we’re going to restore a law and order we hae to restore”, he then told the crowd, “I look forward to sharing my thoughts with you on Thursday night to show we build a brighter and more hopeful future”.
ABC News coverage of the Republican National ConventionCalifornia was front and center and led the way with all 172 delegate votes going to Trump.
“It’s unbelievable. It’s surreal”. At the arena, a new array of speakers on tap, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie and two of Trump’s children, including Donald Jr., who spoke with ABC7 News Tuesday morning. “And we can not allow it”.
Trump’s name was put into the nomination by Alabama Sen.
The centerpiece of Tuesday’s evening convention program will be the roll call vote making Trump’s nomination official – a once-unthinkable scenario for Republicans who spent months dismissing the real estate mogul as a mere sideshow.
Many Americans will get their first introduction to Pence when he delivers his headline speech.
The Slovenian-born former model, 24 years her husband’s junior, also reintroduced herself, showing poise as well as devotion to her adopted country and to her husband’s cause. He said his dad approaches business projects the same way he has approached his campaign and life in general, and that’s why his father was able to defeat 16 other Republicans in the primary campaign, despite never having run for office.
While the controversy burned and social media erupted with mocking commentary, the Trump team appeared in chaos – with denials of wrongdoing, followed by tacit admissions, followed by attempts to insulate Melania.
Trump’s campaign offered no apologies, with top adviser Paul Manafort telling The Associated Press the matter had been “totally blown out of proportion”.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has been lukewarm in his support of Trump and criticized his comments about a Hispanic federal judge.
“The chair in a power play just deemed that all 19 would go to Trump”, said Chip Nottingham, a delegate from the District.
Interestingly, it was Donald Trump Jr. who blamed speech writers for Melania Trump’s plagiarism, “I imagine there’s people who shouldn’t have done that or who should have cleaned it up better”.
Some Republican establishment figures – whose party was once respected for its discipline and public unity – suggested Melania’s speechwriter be fired and defended Trump as a candidate. “I think after tonight we won’t be talking about this, we’ll move on to whatever … comes up tonight”, he said.
The untidy 10-minute impasse on national prime-time television robbed Mr Trump’s campaign of valuable publicity as party leaders on the main stage thrashed out what do to.
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“Donald Trump just became the Republican nominee”.
