2024 RNC: Donald Trump named Republican nominee for president
Donald Trump was officially named the nominee for president at the 2024 Republican National Convention.
Day two of the Republican National Convention kicks off Tuesday, and Republicans will continue to lay out their pitch to voters after former President Donald Trump officially became the GOP nominee for the 2024 presidential election.
At Monday’s convention, which is being held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Trump also announced his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio. Vance was formally nominated as Trump’s VP pick.
The convention is underway in the shadows of an assassination attempt against Trump, at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, over the weekend. An attendee at the campaign stop was killed, and two others were seriously inured. Trump said Sunday the attack changed the focus of his convention speech, explaining in a Washington Examiner interview that he now sees it as “chance to bring the whole country, even the whole world, together.’
Keep up with the USA TODAY Network’s live coverage of the 2024 Republican convention.
The Donald Trump campaign has scheduled a rally for Saturday in Grand Rapid, Mich., one week after being wounded in an assassination attempt.
Trump and running mate JD Vance will appear in Van Andel Arena on late Saturday afternoon, the campaign announced.
The indoor rally comes a week after Trump was shot at an outdoor rally in Butler, Pa.
Trump, who was nicked in the ear by a bullet, will give his nomination acceptance speech Thursday night in Milwaukee.
-David Jackson
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−Ben Adler
The former South Carolina governor’s speech is among the most anticipated on Tuesday. Haley was the last 2024 GOP presidential candidate to exit the race against Trump. She was originally not planning to speak to the convention, or attend it.
Haley, a former ambassador to the United Nations under Trump, criticized the former president frequently on the campaign trail. She said in May that she plans to vote for Trump this election.
– Karissa Waddick
Liz Cheney blasts Vance as an election denier
Former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., issued a warning on Tuesday in a post on X that GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance would “do what Mike Pence wouldn’t – overturn an election and illegally seize power.”
Cheney, an outspoken critic of Donald Trump who has raised similar concerns in the past, added that Vance “would capitulate to Russia and sacrifice the freedom of our allies in Ukraine,” and said “Trump GOP is no longer the party of Lincoln, Reagan or the Constitution.”
Vance, a senator from Ohio, supported Trump’s efforts to undermine the 2020 election and he hasn’t committed to accepting the results of the 2024 election.
-Karissa Waddick
Van Jones calls Amber Rose’s RNC speech “most dangerous” for Dems
Democratic political analyst Van Jones described influencer Amber Rose’s Monday night address at the RNC, in which she recounted her path from a Trump-critic to a supporter of the former president, as “the most dangerous speech for the Democratic coalition,” so far.
More: Watch Amber Rose’s speech at the Republican National Convention
“That is a young woman of color. She is describing the experience that a lot of people have — feeling that maybe, if you’re around too many liberals, you might get criticized too much or you might not be able to speak your mind, and she spoke to it really well,” Jones said of the former model and rapper’s speech.
“And she’s way more famous than any of us up here,” he added, calling Rose’s statements a “bunker buster,” for Democrats.
–Karissa Waddick
Tim Scott invokes faith in RNC speech: ‘Our God still saves’
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina told convention-goers Monday, “If you didn’t believe in miracles before Saturday, you better be believing right now,” in a speech heavy on references to the Republican’s Christian faith.
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“Our God still saves. He still delivers,” Scott said, referencing the devastating shooting at Donald Trump’s Saturday rally. The former president turned his head moments before a bullet grazed his ear, potentially saving his life. “Because on Saturday, the devil came to Pennsylvania holding a rifle. But an American lion got back up on his feet, and he roared.”
Scott, who had been rumored to be on Trump’s potential list of vice-presidential picks, also criticized Joe Biden for being “asleep at the wheel” during his address.
Scott ran his own campaign for president before dropping out in November and was then rumored to be on the list of Trump’s potential vice-presidential picks.
− Savannah Kuchar and Karissa Waddick
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed his meeting with Donald Trump, but rejected reports that he is considering endorsing the Republican nominee.
“No, I am not dropping out very of the race,” Kennedy said on the social media site X. Kennedy also said:
“Lots of rumors going around about my meeting this morning with President Trump. Our main topic was national unity, and I hope to meet with Democratic leaders about that as well.”-David Jackson
JD Vance explains why he once called Trump ‘America’s Hitler’
In his first interview after becoming Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance on Sunday night explained why he once called Trump “America’s Hitler.”
The Ohio senator wrote to a friend in 2016 that he wasn’t sure whether Trump was a “cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler.”
Vance cleared the air on Monday during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity
“I was certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016, but President Trump was a great president and he changed my mind,” Vance said. “I think he changed the minds of a lot of Americans.”
–Savannah Kuchar
Former President Donald Trump made his first public appearance since Saturday’s shooting − cameras in the convention hall filmed him walking down a hall toward a seating area to watch the proceedings. He had a large bandage on his ear after he was injured in the assassination attempt.
Trump waved as the crowd roared and the cover band played a version of “So Caught Up in You.”
− David Jackson
Who is Trump’s VP pick JD Vance?
JD Vance, 39, is a first-term senator from Ohio, who skyrocketed to fame after publishing his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Vance was first elected to the Senate in 2022 with no prior political experience, but he had widespread name recognition in light of his bestselling book. “Hillbilly Elegy,” later turned into a Netflix feature film, detailed Vance’s journey from a childhood riddled with abuse to a Yale Law School degree that opened doors for him in Silicon Valley.
While Vance was previously critical of Trump, at one point comparing him to an opioid and saying he could be “America’s Hitler,” he changed his tune ahead of his 2022 Senate race. Since then, Vance has become a loyal ally to Trump. He is also close with one of Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr.
– Haley BeMiller and Riley Beggin
Trump officially gets nomination
On Monday, Trump was able to drop the “presumptive” in front of “Republican presidential nominee” after formally locking down his nomination.
Eric Trump delivered the delegates that formally put Trump over the top.
“On behalf of our entire family and on behalf of the 125 delegates in the unbelievable state of Florida, we hereby nominate every single one of them for the greatest president that’s ever lived, and that’s Donald J. Trump, hereby declaring him the Republican nominee for president of the united states of America,” he said.
– Rebecca Morin, David Jackson and Brianne Pfannenstiel
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