Republican Convention: Anti-Donald Trump protestors throng Cleveland

Trump told CNN in a Town Hall event, “I stick up for people, and I don’t want to ruin somebody’s life”. “Chip in now to make sure he never steps foot in the Oval Office”. In the state of Alaska we had rules that were ambiguous and the Republican National Committee not the Trump campaign-they interpreted Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz had suspended their campaign, so they gave all the votes to Trump.

Before Trump emerged victorious, it had been a brutal week for the candidate. His vice presidential pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was also formally nominated.

Speaking from the Trump Tower in NY via video, Trump thanked delegates for their support as he pledged to bring “real change and leadership back to Washington”.

Mrs Clinton is due to be formally nominated at a Democratic convention next week in Philadelphia.

Delegates Unbound and other anti-Trump groups are made up of a roster of strategists, politicians and financiers who spent much of their careers at the beating heart of the Republican Party.

Giving the impression that thrice-married Mr Trump is a great family man, two of Mr Trump’s adult children, Donald Junior and Tiffany Trump, talked up their father’s love, business success and mentoring.

“It’s a good way to start a conversation because it’s all positive”, says Puzder, one of Trump’s California finance chairmen and the chief executive of several fast-food chains.

Part of the goal of the Republican convention is to portray Trump in the most favorable light possible, softening the image of a candidate whose anti-immigrant rhetoric has factored heavily in Americans’ views of him. Party officials are hoping to use the convention to smooth out some of his rough edges and present him as a job-creator and a strong hand to combat security threats at home and overseas.

Though the night’s theme was supposed to be “Make America Work Again”, speaker after speaker also hammered home criticism of Clinton instead of boasting about Trump’s economic plans and proposals.

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the first senator to endorse the billionaire real estate mogul’s bid, spoke first and put Trump’s name into nomination, boasting that he was unafraid to defy political correctness.

But speakers Tuesday night did their best to turn the attention back on Donald Trump’s November rival.

Trump trails Clinton in many opinion polls after a bruising Republican primary season.

Somewhat belatedly, many – but not all – mainstream Republicans have reluctantly rallied behind the former reality TV presenter, in the knowledge that the alternative is a Hillary Clinton presidency.

In Melania Trump’s roughly 15-minute address on Monday night, a small section closely resembled a part of Michelle Obama’s speech in 2008 in support of her husband, Barack Obama, who was then campaigning for his first term as president.

Tiffany said she kept many of her report cards with Trump’s writing. Clinton wrote her college thesis on the radical writer, and Carson argued he was someone who “acknowledges Lucifer” and seemed to insinuate Clinton did the same. Embracing his background as a prosecutor, the Trump ally outlined stories about Clinton’s record in national and foreign security and about her private email server by asking the audience for its verdict: “Is she guilty or not guilty?” Wright State University, a public university near Dayton, Ohio, said on Tuesday it had decided not to host the first US presidential debate scheduled for September 26, citing mounting costs and security concerns.