US President Donald Trump was officially invested on Monday by the Republican Party as a candidate for re-election in the November 3 presidential election. Unsurprisingly, the 330 or so Grand Old Party delegates gathered in Charlotte, North Carolina, nominated the president as their candidate on the first day of the Republican convention.
One by one, Republican representatives from each of the 50 US states, beginning in alphabetical order with Alabama, announced their support for the US president. The threshold of 1,276 votes necessary to win the nomination was crossed shortly after noon.
Mike Pence also re-appointed
The tenant of the White House was expected in Charlotte in the middle of the day. In a tweet sent from Air Force One, he was indignant that CNN and MSNBC did not broadcast this state-by-state vote live.
Earlier in the morning, Vice President Mike Pence was also re-nominated by his party as running mate. "America needs four more years from Donald Trump in the White House," he said in a brief speech.
"I heard last week that democracy was at stake," he said, referring to an expression used several times by Democrats at their convention. "But we all know the economy is at stake, law and order are at stake," he added.
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