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2016 US ELECTION

Republican Party nominates Donald Trump for US president

– The main enemy –

But as the last vestiges of Republican resistance were quashed, there fresh signs that the party establishment had thrown its lot in with Trump in a bid to beat Clinton.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie led delegates in declaring Clinton “guilty” and encouraged visceral chants of “lock her up.”

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan declared “the Obama years are almost over. The Clinton years are way over. Two-thousand sixteen is the year America moves on.”

The Trump campaign will hope that distain for Clinton will unite the party and make a series of missteps irrelevant.

“The party is unified, we’re all here, I will bet you, if you polled this place, there is not one vote for Hillary Clinton in this building,” key Trump lieutenant Corey Lewandowski told AFP.

“People are ready for a fundamental and unequivocal change in Washington and the person who is going to bring that is Donald Trump.”

Before Trump emerged victorious, it had been a brutal week for the candidate.

His glamorous wife Melania Trump brought some pizzazz to the proceedings on the opening night.

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But an embarrassing plagiarism scandal tarnished her prime-time speech — and brought her husband’s presidential campaign under withering scrutiny.

While the controversy burned and social media erupted with mocking commentary, the Trump team appeared in chaos – with denials of wrongdoing, followed by tacit admissions, followed by attempts to insulate Melania.

Earlier delegates exchanged jeers and heckles as anti-Trump forces tried in vain to thwart his nomination.

Clinton wasted no time seeking to capitalize on Trump’s party victory.

“Donald Trump just became the Republican nominee. Chip in now to make sure he never steps foot in the Oval Office,” she said in a fundraising tweet.

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