In fact, a surprising percentage of respondents – 23 percent – said they meant to vote for a third-party candidate.
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“Let’s compete in every part of America, and turn out at the polls like every last vote matters, because it will”, Ryan said. There was little opposition on the floor as delegates cast votes for Trump state by state. Still, Trump far outdistanced his primary rivals, and his vice-presidential pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was also formally nominated.
In a speech in which he showed himself to be sometimes more fluent in the language of conservatism than his father, he vowed that Trump would unleash the “greatness” of hardworking American people and wouldn’t use “the highest office in the land as a path to personal enrichment”.
“Congratulations, Dad. We love you”, he said.
The Senate majority leader didn’t exactly heap praise on Trump either though, and didn’t mention him at all until several minutes into his speech.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, who had previously offered a lukewarm endorsement of Trump, said he looked forward to sitting behind him in the House chamber when the GOP nominee delivers the State of the Union address.
Tiffany Trump, the candidate’s 22-year-old daughter from his marriage to Marla Maples, and Donald Trump Jr., his eldest son and an executive vice president at The Trump Organization, were scheduled to speak.
Donald Trump, who briefly introduced Melania on Monday after emerging onto the stage through a cloud of smoke and blue light, was furious about the embarrassment, two sources told CNN.
But her speech was quickly overtaken by charges that it included two passages- each 30 words or longer – that matched a 2008 Democratic convention address by Michelle Obama almost word-for-word.
Top Trump adviser Paul Manafort said the matter had been “totally blown out of proportion”.
After vanquishing 16 party rivals, warring with much of the Republican establishment and sparking controversy at the party convention, Donald Trump on Tuesday secured the party’s 2016 nomination for the White House.
To have a chance to win in November, Donald Trump has to depart the convention with a GOP that is substantially more united than the party he first encountered here Monday. Campaign officials invested significant time arguing to delegates about the importance of presenting a unite front during the televised convention. The governor, who started to talk up his law enforcement background more as his campaign failed to gain traction, endorsed Trump after dropping out of the race in February and has become one of his most ardent advocates.
Underscoring the problems Trump has faced with US allies overseas, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Trump threatened USA and world security with his “politics of fear and isolation”.
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Pew found that Trump’s Twitter posts were retweeted an average of around 6,000 times, compared to 2,500 for Sanders and just 1,500 for Clinton.
