CLEVELAND (AP) — The Latest on the Republican National Convention (all times EDT):
10:15 p.m.
Donald Trump’s son Donald Jr. is citing his father’s business acumen and says that for his father, “impossible is just the starting point.”
The younger Trump tells the delegates at the Republican National Convention that his father approaches business projects the same way he has approached his campaign and life in general.
Donald Jr. says that’s why his father was able to defeat 16 other Republicans in the primary campaign, despite never having run for office.
He says the question in this election is who has the judgment to lead. He says Democrat Hilary Clinton is a risk the country can’t afford to take.
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10 p.m.
Tiffany Trump says her father, Donald Trump, is a “natural-born encourager” who’s motivated her to work her hardest.
The 22-year-old is telling the Republican National Convention about her father’s character, and recalling how he’d notes on her report cards. She says she still has them.
Tiffany Trump says the Trump way is to hold nothing back and never let fear get in the way. She says he’s the last person who’d ever tell someone to lower their sights or give up on their dream.
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9:50 p.m.
Republicans are breaking out into chants of “lock her up” as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tries to impugn Hillary Clinton’s character in his speech to the Republican National Convention.
Christie says as a former federal prosecutor, he wants to hold Clinton accountable for her actions. He says he’s laying out what he says are facts about her to “a jury of her peers.”
Guilty or not guilty — that’s what Christie is asking his audience for a verdict about Clinton on her leadership on the Islamic State group, China, and an al-Qaida-linked group in Nigeria.
Each time, delegates are responding with boisterous chants of “guilty.”
Republican activists repeatedly interrupted Christie with shouts of — “Lock her up.”
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9:42 p.m.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says Hillary Clinton lied to the nation about “her selfish, awful judgment.” Christie — who fell short in his GOP presidential bid — says voters shouldn’t elect Clinton as president and reward what he calls her incompetence.
Christie is firmly behind Republican nominee Donald Trump — and says he’s been friends with Trump for 14 years.
Christie tells the Republican National Convention that Clinton’s performance as secretary of state was dismal. He says voters should hold her accountable for failures in Libya, Syria and elsewhere.
Christie says Clinton also is responsible for a bad nuclear deal with Iran.
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9:42 p.m.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says scandal follows Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton “like flies.”
McConnell is using his speech to the Republican National Convention to rip into the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
The Kentucky senator says he’s spent more time around the Clintons than anyone should ever have to spend.
McConnell says he’s disagreed with President Barack Obama, but that at least Obama was upfront about his intentions “to move America to the left.”
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9:40 p.m.
Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says Hillary Clinton is promoting a “new world order” that would allow the government in Washington to trample Americans’ freedoms.
The retired neurosurgeon is set to tell delegates at the Republican National Committee that Clinton will push what he’s calling “cancerous policies” that perpetuate poverty.
Carson says Clinton would appoint liberal Supreme Court justices who would cement those policies.
Carson — in excerpts of his prepared remarks — says Donald Trump would preserve the “ideals upon which this country was founded.”
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9:25 p.m.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says he’ll be sharing the rostrum with “President Donald Trump” the next time there’s a State of the Union address on Capitol Hill.
Ryan hesitated for a while before finally endorsing the businessman last month. The Wisconsin lawmaker tells the Republican National Convention that only by electing Trump and running mate Mike Pence does the country “have a chance at a better way.”
He says Hillary Clinton represents a third term of what he’s calling President Barack Obama’s failed presidency.
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9:20 p.m.
Republican congressional leaders are assuring party delegates that having Donald Trump in the White House will help achieve key GOP legislative objectives.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Trump will sign bills to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law, build the Keystone pipeline and deny Planned Parenthood any federal money.
McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan also are delivering broadsides against Hillary Clinton and her fellow Democrats.
McConnell says Clinton has “a tortured relationship to the truth.”
Ryan says Clinton represents a third term of Obama’s presidency instead of the “clean break from a failed system” that many Americans want.
The Wisconsin Republican says next week’s Democratic convention will be a “four-day infomercial of politically correct moralizing.”
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9:05 p.m.
Donald Trump says he’s proud to be the Republican presidential nominee.
Trump is offering his first words to the party convention after being declared the nominee. He says in a video played in the convention hall that he’s honored to have Mike Pence as his running mate and that the Indiana governor will make a “great, great vice president.”
Trump says he’ll appear with Pence in Cleveland on both Wednesday and Thursday. He says they’ll win Ohio and the presidency.
Trump is promising to bring “real change and leadership” to Washington.
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8:20 p.m.
Mystery solved at the GOP convention.
The question is why all 19 delegates from the District of Columbia were awarded to Donald Trump.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio won the district’s convention during the primary season and Ohio Gov. John Kasich came in second. Trump didn’t win any delegates back in March.
But party rules in the district say that if only one candidate’s name is placed into nomination at the national convention, then all 19 delegates go to that candidate.
Trump was the only candidate to be nominated at the convention.
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8:15 p.m.
Mike Pence has been nominated as the Republican vice presidential candidate — and Donald Trump’s running mate.
The Indiana governor was declared the nominee by acclimation — meaning no formal roll call vote is needed. That ruling came from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as he presided over the party’s convention.
McConnell says Pence has the “overwhelming support of this convention” to be the next vice president.
Indiana Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb — who put Pence’s name in nomination — says Pence has overseen record investments in education and eliminated red tape for businesses. He says under Pence’s leadership, more Indiana residents are working and the tech sector is experiencing “explosive” growth.
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8:10 p.m.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has formally declared Donald Trump the winner of the Republican presidential nomination.
Ryan says Trump received 1,725 delegates in the state-by-state roll call. Ryan says Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was the runner-up with 475 delegates. Ohio Gov. John Kasich came in third with 129 votes, followed by 113 for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
Fifth-place went to physician Ben Carson with seven delegates, followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with three delegates and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul with two delegates.
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8:05 p.m.
Donald Trump is celebrating his big achievement Tuesday night: officially becoming the Republican nominee for president.
Trump has posted a tweet that it was “such a great honor” after the roll call of the states at the Republican National Convention gave him the number of delegates needed to become the GOP’s nominee.
He added: “I will work hard and never let you down! AMERICA FIRST!”
Trump is set to formally accept the nomination during a Thursday night speech at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.
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8 p.m.
Donald Trump may officially be the Republican nominee, but that didn’t stop at least one state from taking exception to the way its votes were counted during Tuesday night’s presidential roll call at the GOP convention.
The Alaska delegation is disputing how its votes were recorded and requesting a formal poll of its delegates. But House Speaker Paul Ryan has declared that Alaska’s 28 votes are going to Trump — who already had more delegates than he needed to win.
The dispute appeared to be over Alaska state party rules that say a candidate loses his or her delegates if the candidate’s campaign is no longer active.
All of Trump’s challengers suspended their campaigns when it became clear the New Yorker would win the nomination.
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7:55 p.m.
Not every Republican activist is so excited now that Donald Trump has clinched the party’s presidential nomination.
Colorado delegate Kendal Unruh says it’s time to “cancel the convention, stop the sham.” She says Trump has worked to coronate himself king.
Unruh is warning there could be drama and a “show of displeasure” coming on Thursday when Trump is set to speak at the convention.
Colorado cast most of its votes for Cruz.
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7:45 p.m.
Even as they’re casting votes for John Kasich (KAY’-sihk) during the roll call of the states, numerous delegates are the Republican National Convention are still getting the Ohio governor’s last name wrong.
It rhymes with “basic.”
But at least three delegates announcing their state’s votes for the nomination pronounced the second syllable like the word “itch.”
The frequent stumbling over Kasich’s last name was something of a running joke while Kasich was competing for the Republican presidential nomination.
He dropped out in May, but still was awarded delegates at the convention because of votes he won in the primary contests.
Kasich wasn’t present for Tuesday night’s proceedings, despite the fact that the convention is taking place in his home state.
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7:35 p.m.
New Mexico’s governor refused to endorse Donald Trump after he chastised her for not doing her job when it comes to unemployment and other issues.
But there was Susana Martinez on the floor of the Republican National Convention and introducing the young delegate who announced New Mexico’s tally during the roll call of states.
Trump won the nomination Tuesday night, and New York put him over the top.
Some prominent Republicans have stayed away from the convention, but Martinez has been a visible presence in Cleveland.
Trump criticized Martinez in May at a campaign appearance in New Mexico, but later said he wanted her support. Martinez is the nation’s first female Hispanic governor.
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7:25 p.m.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is blaming what he calls are “Clinton Democrats” for a Senate standoff that’s blocked President Barack Obama’s request for money to fight the Zika virus.
Congress is now on a seven-week recess, and left Washington without acting on the Zika money. Democrats objected to a GOP proposal that would block Planned Parenthood clinics in Puerto Rico from getting money to fight the virus.
McConnell is blaming the impasses on Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
The Kentucky lawmaker is speaking later Tuesday night at the convention but some of his remarks are being released beforehand.
McConnell says he wonders what Democrats “think public service is about.” He says the presidential election will answer this basic question: “Who is looking out for us?”
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7:15 p.m.
Donald Trump’s son Donald Jr. cast the final votes his father needed to become the Republican presidential nominee.
The younger Trump was on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and told the excited activists in the auditorium that New York was casting 89 votes for Trump and six for Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
He then shouted out: “Congratulations, Dad, we love you.”
Donald Jr. says he’s watched as his father has built a movement and he says that movement has given Americans a voice again.
Also on the convention floor are some of Donald Trump’s other children, including Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump.
Delegates on the floor broke into cheers and waved signs as the song “New York, New York” played at the Quicken Loans Arena.
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7:10 p.m.
Make it official: The Republican Party has nominated Donald Trump for president.
And now the New York billionaire has completed a remarkable rise from political outsider to major party nominee for the White House.
New York put him over the top in the delegate count Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention.
There was a disruptive fight on Monday night over the party’s rules, but a day later that was history.
There was little drama as party delegates united behind the real estate mogul and reality TV star.
CLEVELAND — The Republican National Convention started off with a bang — or a debacle, according to your point of view. Donald Trump must hope that Day 2 hews a little closer to the script.
A day after an angry convention-floor eruption laid bare how many Republicans are still reluctant to nominate Trump, his team lined up a roster of supporters eager to showcase their belief that the flashy business mogul should be president. Among them: Trump’s son, Donald J. Trump Jr., and two fellow White House hopefuls he defeated in the primary.
That’s not to say there may not be some awkward moments, especially as Trump is feted by party luminaries who have walked a tightrope this year trying to show support for the presumptive nominee without embracing his more provocative positions.
What to watch for at the convention on Tuesday:
NEVER TRUMP, NEVERMORE?
On the opening day, GOP leaders approved rules for the convention over furious objections. Anti-Trump delegates had tried to force a state-by-state roll call vote on the rules, which to their dismay require delegates to vote for a nominee based on their state primaries and caucuses. Despite what initially appeared to be a successful attempt to force a full vote, Republican leaders proceeded with a quick voice vote and Trump’s team declared the “dump Trump” movement vanquished.
Indeed, with Trump laying claim to a solid majority of delegates, the anti-Trump movement appears all but defeated. But that doesn’t mean they’ll go quietly.
CALL THE ROLL
If there is a last-gasp flare-up, it’ll almost certainly come Tuesday when Republicans hold their formal roll call for the nomination, in which every state gets to say how its delegates are voting — and to throw in a few plugs for the state. Watch for the most die-hard anti-Trump delegates to cause a ruckus, and expect plenty of corny references to a state’s famous foods or prized natural wonders.
MELANIA VS MICHELLE
Delegates are sure to be asked about the speech Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, delivered Monday evening. Though well-received, the speech contained two passages that match nearly word-for-word the speech that first lady Michelle Obama delivered in 2008 at the Democratic National Convention.
The passages in question focus on lessons that Mrs. Trump said she learned from her parents and the relevance of their lessons in her experience as a mother. The similarities quickly started garnering attention on social media and on cable TV.
THE HOUSE SPEAKER SPEAKS
Though he’s the official chairman of the convention, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin didn’t appear publicly on Monday. But he’ll give a speech Tuesday that will be closely watched to see how he’ll handle his delicate relationship with Trump.
Reluctantly, and only after long deliberation, Ryan endorsed Trump, saying that he’d be better than Hillary Clinton and that it was important that the speaker back the party’s nominee. Yet Ryan has continued to criticize Trump for his positions on trade and Muslim immigration, even accusing Trump of using “textbook” racist language. In an appearance Monday with his home-state delegation, Ryan never mentioned Trump, but focused on poverty and economic issues — themes he plans to hit in his speech.
CHRISTIE’S FALL FROM GRACE
Four years ago, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was honored by being tapped to give the keynote speech at the GOP convention in Tampa, Florida, reflecting his up-and-comer status in the party at the time. Yet he was criticized for giving a lackluster speech that focused on himself and barely mentioned the nominee, Mitt Romney.
The past few months have been harsh on Christie, who ran against Trump in the primary, sharply criticized him, lost, endorsed him, then appeared diminished as he played Trump’s sidekick at campaign events. Christie lobbied hard to be Trump’s vice presidential pick but was passed over, just as his “Bridgegate” political retribution scandal continues to evolve.
JOBS, JOBS, JOBS
Tuesday’s stated theme is “Make America Work Again.” Trump hopes the day will cast him as the successful businessman who can create jobs for the whole country. It’s a theme that taps into the deep economic anxiety that many Americans are feeling — especially Trump’s supporters.
But the argument may be complicated by the fact that America is already going back to work — at least judging by unemployment. Under President Barack Obama, the jobless rate has fallen from close to 10 percent at the height of the recession to under 5 percent.
UNDER THE GUN
Chris Cox, the top lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, will take the stage at a time of deep unease about gun violence and shootings both by and against police. The day before the convention opened, three officers were killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where weeks earlier the fatal police shooting of a black man had sparked a national outcry.
Expect Trump’s supporters to voice overwhelming support for police officers and overwhelming opposition to stricter gun control measures, in line with the NRA. Yet that full-throated call will come just as Trump is working to expand his appeal to Democrats and Clinton supporters who by and large want to see new gun laws in the wake of mass shootings like the recent one in Orlando, Florida.
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