Newsman: The former President Donald Trump officially becomes the GOP nominee for president at the Republican National Convention, days after surviving an assassination attempt. The four-day event started on Monday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the Fiserv Forum arena.
Former President Donald Trump was nominated officially during a roll call vote Monday at the Republican National Congress. About 2,400 delegates from around the country joined together at the Republican National Congress.
Donald Trump made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee having a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet.
The crowd chanted “fight” — the word a bloody-faced Trump had shouted several times, while pumping his fist in the air, as the Secret Service rushed him off the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
It was a memorable moment on a day that Republican delegates officially nominated Trump for the third consecutive presidential election and confirmed Vance as his running mate and opened a four-day convention aimed at making the case for another Trump term
Trump stole the show when he joined the man he’d chosen hours earlier as his vice presidential running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, in a box in the 10 p.m. Eastern Time for Monday night’s final speeches.
Besides the pageantry, the Republican Party will adopt a new platform that softens its language on abortion and says the issue should be determined by individual states. The platform also proposes building a missile defense shield over the U.S. and promises tax cuts and mass deportations of people who are in the U.S. illegally.
The RNC and the Trump campaign released a list of speakers for this week’s convention on Saturday, which is made up of lawmakers, television personalities and members of the former president’s family, among others.
Journalist and Television anchor Tucker Carlson, trumps ally Vivek Ramaswamy and House Speaker Mike Johnson and a number of Republican senators, Senate candidates and representatives are on the speakers list.
Donald Trump’s two older sons are slated to speak, along with his son Donald Jr.’s fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Lara Trump who is also co-chair of the Republican National Committee, married to Eric Trump. Trump’s wife. Melania Trump, is not among the speakers, nor is his daughter Ivanka Trump.
