We were told it should never happen and would never happen. But the impossible has now happened: Donald Trump is officially the Republican candidate in this year’s presidential election. It’s been a near-certainty for some time, but there is no going back after Trump sealed the nomination at the Republican National Convention last night. Some of those at the RNC in Cleveland will have been praying for a miracle and hoping that unbound voters – who, they argued, did not technically have to side with Trump – could have unseated him at the last hurdle. In the end, last night’s nomination process was seamless and the outcome was clear: it’s Trump vs Hillary.
In a piece of convention theatre, it was Donald Trump Junior- a delegate from New York, who tipped his dad over the line. He said:
‘It is my honour to be able to throw Donald Trump over the top tonight in the delegate count. Congratulations, dad, we love you!’
Leaving aside the awkward image of Trump being chucked over the top, Trump Junior touched on an key factor of the Donald’s success in clinching the nomination, saying that ‘even in the places that aren’t so conservative we have had the most incredible support.’ Its’s certainly true that the Trump campaign has managed to secure a frankly unbelievable level of support. Trump won more than 13million votes during the primary campaign – more than any other Republican candidate in history; a fact made more impressive by how crowded the field was when the race kicked off. Now, there’s just one man standing: Donald Trump. And no one is laughing now.
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