Republicans formally name Trump their presidential nominee
Two days after an assassination attempt, Donald Trump was named the Republican candidate for the US presidency at the party's convention that began on Monday, July 15, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Trump will have to officially accept his nomination on July 18, DW notes.
On nomination day, Trump announced Ohio Republican Senator James David Vance as his running mate for US Vice President. "As Vice President, J.D. will continue to fight for our Constitution, stand by our troops and do everything he can to help me make America great," Trump wrote on his social media platform.
As CNN reports, 66 percent of registered voters have either heard nothing of Vance or heard too little to form an opinion of him as a politician. Vance has "a special knack for connecting with Midwestern voters and is a model for transforming the Republican Party into the populist powerhouse that turned his home state of Ohio into a solid Trump state," writes CNN.
Joe Biden called Vance "a Trump clone on every issue."
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania
On July 13, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot former US President Donald Trump while he was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The bullet hit the top of the politician's ear. A 50-year-old man was killed in the exchange of fire, and two other rally participants were injured. They are in stable condition, state police said. The attacker was fatally shot by special forces.
