Former President Donald Trump won the formal nomination as the Republican presidential candidate for the US elections 2024 and picked a right-wing loyalist Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate.
Mr. Trump’s popularity increased after he survived an assassination attack on Saturday.
Once a harsh critic, Ohio Senator Vance, 39, became one of Trump’s most reliable and uncompromising supporters in Congress. The presidential race contender was given a hero’s welcome at the convention in Milwaukee, where delegates delivered their formal nomination. “As Vice President, J.D. will continue to fight for our Constitution, stand with our Troops, and do everything he can to help me MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” Trump posted on Truth Social. Trump is progressively confident that President Biden will be shocked in this race despite several legal problems.
In the delegates counts at Milwaukee, Eric Trump called his father “The greatest president that ever lived.” on behalf of the Florida delegation. Mr. Vance was widely expected as Trump’s pick, while he is one of the least experienced VPs in history. He holds the former president’s isolationist, anti-immigration America First movement. He is to fight for his new boss on issues including abortion. He initially made his name with the 2016 account “Hillbilly Elegy,” a best-selling account of his Appalachian family and modest Rust Belt upbringing, which gave a voice to rural, working-class bitterness in left-behind America.
Going back from his previous opposition to Trump Vance won the ex-president’s key endorsement in the 2022 Ohio Senate race. Despite being convicted in a hush-money criminal case in New York, Trump is displaying confidence, while his challenger – Biden – is facing calls from his side to quit the race over concerns around his age. His campaign released a statement, “Trump-Vance agenda would take away Americans’ rights, hurt the middle class, and make life more expensive.” Trump received another victory yesterday as a judge dismissed the criminal case against him over accusations, that he threatened national security. Another major victory for Trump in the legal battle was the top court’s decision on presidential immunity.
On this Trump took to Truth Social to call for the dismissal of all legal cases against him, insisting again that he was being politically victimized. He told the New York Post he had “prepared an extremely tough speech” about Biden’s “horrible administration” to deliver at the convention. The Milwaukee gathering was designed in Trump’s image, with digital banners beaming out a message in the cavernous convention arena: “Make America Great Once Again.”
(By Rana Kashif)
