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Republican convention live: Mike Pence accepts vice-presidential nomination Republican convention live: Mike Pence accepts vice-presidential nomination
(35 minutes later)
4.23am BST
04:23
The motion to adjourn is heard and is adopted. Meet back here at 7.10pm tomorrow.
I think we have our answer on the music. The band digs into its most ambitious cover yet. Like Rush-ambitious:
4.22am BST
04:22
Here’s that missed kiss, thanks to @imbeccable:
pic.twitter.com/1036cIcdXS
4.20am BST
04:20
The Teleprompter is running for the Greek priest but he prefers to look down at a printed text.
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04:18
So they’ve done funk and disco and country. They’ve done the nominations and the vice presidential candidate and Newt’s gone out there. What kind of music will they bring tomorrow?
GE Smith’s saxophonist blows the sax out of “How Sweet it is (to be loved by you).
Chairman Priebus is back. He introduces a Greek orthodox priest for the outro.
The delegates, an unusual number of whom are on the floor unusually late, stay there, for the most part, even as the upper stands empty.
4.15am BST
04:15
The two men kind of bask in each others’ presence for a few seconds, smiling and chilling.
Then Trump retreats and Pence’s family comes out. Mom Nancy, wife Karen and the three kids.
The soundtrack is Rodney Atkins, It’s America.
4.13am BST
04:13
Pence: “Together we will make America great again.” Big cheers.
Pence steps back. But he does not leave the stage. Yet.
He stands and waves to cheers.
And there’s Trump. Air kiss from Trump to Pence.
4.12am BST
04:12
Are we going to see Trump onstage? He’s left his seat.
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04:12
Pence sees 'rendezvous with destiny'
Pence is starting to wind up. He promises to pray daily if he becomes veep.
“I believe we have come to another rendezvous with destiny,” he says.
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4.10am BST
04:10
“We must ensure that the next president appointing justices to the supreme court is Donald Trump,” Pence says.
Then he mentions Benghazi, and the “lock her up” chant starts again. Pence waits it out with a stern look on his face.
He says that Clinton should be disqualified “from ever serving as commander in chief of the armed forces” because of Benghazi.
History teaches us that weakness arouses evil. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s foreign policy... are a testament to this truth of history. We cannot have four more years of apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends.
4.03am BST
04:03
Pence:
None of us should think for one second that this should be easy... you know this won’t be America’s first glimpse of the Clinton machine in action, as Bernie Sanders can tell you. And this time around, she’ll have the press doing half of her work for her.
On issue by issue, he and I will take our case to the voters... we will win the hearts and minds of the American people with an agenda for a stronger and more prosperous America.
The establishment... thinks it’s only a narrow range of voters who are giving Donald Trump a first look,” but that’s not true, Pence asserts.
Pence names groups who might give Trump a second look: Union members, coal miners. African Americans. Hispanic Americans.
3.59am BST
03:59
Pence: 'It’s change versus status quo'
Pence says Americans want change but “the other party has responded with a stale agenda and the most predictable of names.”
Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would too if I was already America’s secretary of the status quo.
You know the choice couldn’t be more clear. .. we could choose a leader who will fight every day to make America great again.
It’s change versus status quo.
And my fellow Americans, when Donald Trump is elected president of the United States of America, the change will be YUGE.
3.56am BST
03:56
Pence: 'you can’t fake good kids'
Pence says that as he got to know Trump, he realized good things about him.
“I’ll grant you that he can be a little rough with politicians on the stage - and I bet we see that again” but he has “respect for people that work for him” and “devotion to his family.”
“As we say back home, ‘you can’t fake good kids.’ How about his children? Aren’t they something. These are the true measures of our nominee.”
Applause.
3.54am BST
03:54
Pence gets a cheer for saying the other party doesn’t understand why Trump is winning just like the media doesn’t understand it:
They keep thinking they’ve done him in, only to wake up the next morning to find that Donald Trump is still standing and running stronger than ever before. The man does not quit.
Pence all but compares him to a villain in a horror movie.
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03:51
Pence continues, talking about his record of job creation in Indiana.
“We like Mike!” the crowd chants. “We like Mike! We like Mike!”
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03:51
As Pence continues to speak, the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland continues to interview delegates. He finds as much passion in the Cruz supporters as in his detractors:
Cruz delegate from WA, Selena Coppa, tells me "You can't vote your conscience and vote for a bigot and proto-fascist" like Trump.
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Here’s the moment Donald Trump enters the arena – just as Cruz gets his boo:Here’s the moment Donald Trump enters the arena – just as Cruz gets his boo:
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03:48
Pence says his dad would have loved to be here tonight. An “Would you join me in welcoming the light of my life, my mom, Nancy?”
Nancy stands in yonder stands.
Pence brings hand to lips, his eyes twinkle a bit and he throws her a kiss. That’s a sweet moment.
He introduces his wife Karen next, his wife of 31 years.
“The most important job I’ll ever have is spelled D-A-D,” he says. He says they have the three greatest kids in the world including a second lieutenant in the US marine corps, a writer and a college student. Applause.
“If you know anything about Hoosiers, you know we love to suit up and compete,” he says. That’s why he said yes in a heartbeat.
“On November 8th, I know we will elect Donald Trump to be the 45th president of the United States of AMerica.”
Lots of cheers at that line.
3.44am BST
03:44
Pence says “I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican in that order.”
He says he never thought he’d be standing there. “Yet there I was, a few days ago in New York City, with the man who won 37 states.”
Pence doesn’t mention how Trump flew him to New York then left him in limbo for a day while he decided whether to dump him.
Pence then scores two laughs in a row. He notes that Trump has style and charisma.
“So I guess he was just looking for some balance on the ticket.”
Ha!
Then this: “Well, for those who don’t know me, which is most of you...”
Another laugh.
3.42am BST
03:42
Ryan calls for the election of Donald Trump as president. He is behind the movement, aboard the train:
I have no doubt that he will bring real change to Washington. I have every confidence that he will do us all proud.
Then he introduces Pence and there’s a great deal of cheering.
Pence comes out and looks great with an electric blue tie against a background of the same color. And the white-shirt white-hair thing. Really works.
He says he accepts the nomination. The crowd cheers and cheers.
3.38am BST
03:38
House speaker Paul Ryan comes out to introduce Indiana governor Mike Pence, the vice presidential nominee.
“I could not be more proud of our vice presidential nominee,” Ryan says. “... This is a man of solid character... who sees public service as a calling not a career... the results are impressive.”
3.37am BST
03:37
The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland was with the delegates as they began to realize – and then grow angry at the fact – that Cruz was not going to endorse Donald Trump:
"Endorse Trump" and "Stand by your pledge" chant delegates near me
Chant of "Endorse Trump!" Anger at Cruz for not saying the words pic.twitter.com/tCyJOdslBE
One CT delegate tells me Cruz is "done". Furious at his failure to endorse. "Politically he's a has-been. Texas should be embarrassed"
Re PT. Those words from CT delegate Joe Santopietro. Described Cruz non-endorsement as "terrible, disappointing". CT delegation livid.
Eric Trump speech wholly overshadowed by what just happened here: a profound snub to the nominee from his closest rival #RNCinCLE
3.32am BST
03:32
Breaking:
Wow more plagiarism from Melania pic.twitter.com/oYee2VzYKt
3.29am BST
03:29
Gingrich flips over to national security.
“Donald Trump is right,” he says. “We are at war with radical Islamists, we are losing the war, and we must change course to win the war.”
Then Gingrich says the media will distort what he says next:
Let me be very clear, because I know the news media will do their best to distort this.
We have nothing to fear from the vast majority of Muslims in the United States, or around the world.
The vast majority are peaceful. They are often the victims of the violence themselves.
They are people we would be happy to have as our friends and neighbors.
That last line gets applause, to the crowd’s credit.
There’s a ‘but’:
The challenge is, when even a small percentage of a billion, six hundred million people support violence against those who disagree with them, that is still a giant recruiting base.
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03:26
But don’t let Newt Gingrich tell you what Ted Cruz said. Watch it again:
HEIDI CRUZ escorted out by security as crowd gets angry at Cruz for his speech. One Trump supporter shouting "Goldman Sachs!" at her
3.24am BST
03:24
Gingrich says Cruz non-endorsement was an endorsement
Next Callista Gingrich introduces Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich gets out there and tells the crowd,
“I think you misunderstood one paragraph that Ted Cruz,” a fantastic orator, said.
Gingrich says that Cruz said, “you can vote your conscience for anyone who will uphold the constitution.”
Which means, says Gingrich:
In this election, there is only one candidate who will uphold the constitution. So, to paraphrase Ted Cruz, if you want to uphold the constitution of the United States, the only candidate this fall is the Trump-Pence ticket.
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3.21am BST
03:21
Trump in the audience
Donald Trump had sat through Eric Trump’s speech but now he’s left the stands, perhaps to duck backstage.