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| Mitt Romney becomes Republican presidential nominee | Mitt Romney becomes Republican presidential nominee |
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| Mitt Romney has been officially selected as the Republican presidential nominee at the party's national convention in Tampa, Florida. | Mitt Romney has been officially selected as the Republican presidential nominee at the party's national convention in Tampa, Florida. |
| Delegates from all US states and territories convened to pledge their votes to the former governor of Massachusetts. | Delegates from all US states and territories convened to pledge their votes to the former governor of Massachusetts. |
| He will challenge Barack Obama in November's presidential election. | He will challenge Barack Obama in November's presidential election. |
| Recent opinion polls show Mr Romney and the Democratic president locked in a tight race. | |
| Mr Romney needed to attract at least 1,144 delegates' votes to secure his party's nomination, and the votes from the New Jersey delegation put him "over the top". | |
| 'Going to be fun' | |
| He was chosen in a lively voice vote during which state delegates called out their team's allocation of votes. | He was chosen in a lively voice vote during which state delegates called out their team's allocation of votes. |
| Altogether, Mr Romney secured 2,061 votes, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner announced to the floor of the convention. | |
| Mr Romney was not present at the convention, but reportedly watched the vote count with his wife from a nearby hotel. | |
| He had amassed enough delegates to secure the nomination in May, after a gruelling season of state-by-state primary elections. | |
| But his selection in Tampa put the party's formal stamp of approval on his campaign. | |
| On Tuesday evening, Mr Romney's wife, Ann, as well as South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie are due to deliver speeches. | |
| Mrs Romney's speech is expected to shed light on what her husband is like in private since Mr Romney, formerly a business star and governor of Massachusetts, is seen as something of an unknown quantity by many voters. | |
| She told reporters her husband would attend her speech, adding: "It's going to be fun for him to be there." | |
| Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan is also scheduled to speak on Wednesday evening, while Mr Romney's speech is due on Thursday. | |
| This year's convention got off to a late start when Monday's programme was postponed amid concerns that Hurricane Isaac might disrupt the proceedings in Tampa. | |
| The storm has strengthened into a category one hurricane, and appears set to affect a stretch of coast several hundred miles wide between Louisiana and Florida. | |
| It comes almost seven years to the day since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. |