DThe Republican Party has officially nominated Donald Trump as their presidential nominee. As expected, Trump won the necessary majority of delegate votes at the party convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As things stand, the former president will run against Democratic incumbent Joe Biden in November.
Trump’s nomination was a formality after his landslide victory in the party’s internal primaries. Trump’s speech at the party convention on Friday night (German time) is now eagerly awaited.
Earlier, Trump chose Senator James David Vance (known as JD) from Ohio in the upcoming US presidential election in November. Trump made the announcement on the sidelines of the party convention Via his online site Truth Social.
Trump, a former US president and current presidential candidate, wrote that Vance, 39, was a perfect fit. On the campaign trail, Vance will focus on workers and farmers in battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Minnesota.
Vance once celebrated success with his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” — a book that was also made into a movie by Netflix. The bestseller helped make Trump’s election victory possible in 2016 and provides insight into a layered Vance upbringing, including drug problems and family conflicts. Today the 39-year-old author sits in the Ohio state Senate and is considered a tough guy. After the assassination attempt on Trump, Vance personally blamed Biden for the attack. In the Senate in the spring he voted against billions in aid to Russia-hit Ukraine.
JD Vance
Source: AP/Jeff Dean
Biden’s campaign team lashed out at Vance on Monday, portraying him as a spineless aide — because Vance, a one-time critic of Trump, called him “the people’s opioid” in 2016 and did not consider him fit for the presidency.
Biden’s campaign said Vance would implement Trump’s “radical” political agenda “without harming the American people.” Vance is anti-abortion and wants to cut taxes for billionaires while raising prices for everyone else.
Announcement at Party Conference
Republicans and Democrats must officially confirm their overall results at the national level after party primaries in individual states. This will happen at the respective nominating party conferences. Delegates from all states bound by primary election results travel there and vote accordingly. That means the outcome of the votes there is clear in advance.
More than 2,400 delegates from various states gathered at the Republican Convention. To win the nomination, Trump needed to rally at least 1,215 delegates behind him. During the primaries, Trump already surpassed this mathematical barrier in March. In Milwaukee, delegate votes were now cast formally — at a dance ceremony. Nominating party conventions are key campaign events during an American election year.
The Republican convention in Milwaukee was overshadowed by an assassination attempt on Trump that left Republicans slightly wounded over the weekend. Despite the attack, the 78-year-old traveled to Milwaukee on Sunday to attend the rally.
Democrats won’t meet in Chicago until August. The 81-year-old Biden also won the delegate votes needed to run for office in his party’s primaries. A debate is currently raging in the Democratic Party about his candidacy due to his advanced age. Only Biden can decide whether to drop the presidential bid. So far he has been sticking to it.
For months I guess
Trump gave free reign to speculation over who he would bring as his running mate. In recent American history, the name was announced just before the nominating convention. Trump waited until the meeting had already taken place to announce his decision. This is unusual.
In the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump relied on Mike Pence, who was expected to score particularly well with religious voters. After Trump’s election victory, Pence stood loyally behind his boss for four years. The rift between the two came when Pence refused to formally certify the election results in Congress after Trump’s election loss against Biden in the 2020 election, thereby illegally helping his boss win. Pence tentatively ran for the Republican presidential nomination, but dropped out early in the race.
Trump doesn’t want to share the fame and attention
The vice presidency is usually not an easy one: the vice president’s job is to extol and represent the president’s policies, while at the same time setting his own accents without stealing the show from the boss and making no mistakes. Making oneself shine more. Trump doesn’t particularly like sharing the fame and attention with others.
In this election year, the focus is more than ever on the respective spouses. Trump and Biden, the two opponents for the presidency, are both very advanced in age. Trump is 78, Biden is 81, and according to the U.S. Constitution, if the president dies or fails, the vice president takes over as the state’s highest office.
New plan with weak position on abortion
Additionally, US Republican delegates at their convention adopted a plan to weaken the party’s stance on abortion and same-sex marriage. Titled “America First: A Return to Common Sense,” the program was released in Milwaukee.
Specifically, abortion opponents’ call for a national abortion ban is dismissed. Instead, Trump’s position of leaving the question to individual states is accepted. Additionally, there is no reference to a “traditional marriage” between a man and a woman.
The plan reflects Trump’s tough stance on immigration. It says the border must be closed and the “immigrant invasion” must stop. Additionally, the “largest deportation operation” in American history was about to take place.
In the economy, regulations must be removed, taxes must be reduced and inflation “ended”. In addition, the United States must become a dominant energy producer. In terms of foreign policy, it is said, among other things, to restore peace in Europe and the Middle East.
The plan says Republicans will ensure the U.S. military is the most modern and powerful in the world. “Republicans will strengthen alliances by ensuring our allies meet their commitments and invest in our common security,” it continued, apparently referring to NATO.
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