During a roll call vote shortly after the convention started, about 2,500 Republican delegates formally nominated Donald Trump for president.
Breaking with recent precedent, Trump announced Mr. James David Vance as his candidate for vice president on Monday afternoon on his Truth Social network, delaying his announcement until the Republican National Convention.
Just minutes before the announcement, the senator from Ohio and bestselling memoirist Hillbilly Elegy is said to have learned he was chosen.
He smiled and looked slightly in awe as he walked into the crowd along with his wife, Usha, and chatted with the throngs of delegates who surrounded him.
“Of the three [contenders] on the shortlist, I don’t think you could have done better,” said Greg Simpson, a Republican delegate who lives not far from Vance’s childhood home in Middletown, Ohio.
But Democrats indicated they would make an issue of Mr. Vance’s anti-abortion views and connections to big tech during his career as a venture capitalist.
Democratic President Joe Biden said in a message posted on X that Mr Vance “talks a big game about working people” but would raise taxes on ordinary Americans while cutting taxes on the rich.
Speaking to reporters, he called Mr. Vance “a clone of Trump”.
The president also sat for an interview with NBC News, saying it was a mistake to have said it’s “time to put Trump in the bullseye” during a call with donors days before his political rival was nearly killed.
But he blamed his opponent for ratcheting up political rhetoric for his denials of the 2020 election result, promises to pardon the rioters who attacked the Capitol on 6 January 2021 and for joking about a serious assault on the husband of Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.
As Trump remains in Milwaukee and prepares to deliver his closing night convention speech on Thursday night, Mr Biden has resumed his election campaign, flying to Las Vegas for events after a brief pause in rallies following the attack.
Source: BBC
