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Ivanka to introduce Donald Trump at Republican convention – live Donald Trump accepts Republican nomination: watch speech live
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Barrack tells the crowd to make “once upon a time” “once upon this time.” Ivanka Trump is winding up to the end. This is going well.
The band’s back. I have loved and respected him my entire life, and I could not be more proud tonight to present to you and to all of America my father and our next president, Donald J Trump.
Ivanka Trump is next. There are horns. Lots of horns.
2.42am BST Donald Trump comes out and kisses Ivanka Trump. This time the kisses land. The crowd is on its feet, cheering, applauding.
02:42 There are also strings, lots of strings. IT sounds like he just won the crap out of a Grammy.
While Barrack speaks – he’s telling very nice personal stories about Trump – here’s the latest report from the city of Cleveland about the security situation: 3.17am BST
Two officers, one a Georgia State Trooper and one with the Cleveland Division of Police, were treated for minor skin irritation. They are doing well. The incident is still being investigated, but it is confirmed that no needles or syringes were used. It is possible that it was coming from irritant on a sticker. 03:17
As a precaution, police are advising that if you received a sticker from a person that you don’t know, wash the area with soap and water. Do not take any items from anyone you don’t know. Ivanka Trump:
Syringes have been banned as a precaution, illustrating that the City is monitoring and reacting to incidents. “He’s the single most qualified person to serve as chief executive of an $18tn economy,” she says. He’ll recruit “the best and brightest,” she says. “Come January 17, all things will become possible again. We can hope, dream and think big again... he will be your greatest, your truest and your most loyal champion.”
Barriers will be removed when deemed possible by the United States Secret Service. 3.15am BST
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02:39 Ivanka Trump: 'my father will fight for you'
Talk about a campaign about the future. The Trump camp has just sent, prematurely, an email in which Trump tells people that he just spoke at the RNC conventions. Ivanka Trump promises that “when my father says that he will MAGA, he will deliver.” She does not use the acronym but it’s faster to type.
We are here, and if we missed that speech, it was really nice working here. She gets a genuine laugh:
But we’re pretty certain that Trump has not yet spoken, despite what this fundraising email says: “When I was a child, my father told me, Ivanka, you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big...
Tonight was amazing. “To people all over America, I say, when you have my father in your corner, you will no longer have to worry about being let down. He will fight for you all the way, all the time, every time.”
I just delivered my speech at the Republican National Convention, where I officially accepted our Party’s nomination for President of the United States. Other politicians, she says, say “I’ll feel for you.” But “Only my father will say, ‘I’ll fight for you.’”
David, I am so honored and humbled. 3.13am BST
I can’t thank my wonderful supporters enough. 03:13
And I have such an incredible running mate in accomplished conservative warrior Mike Pence, Governor of the great state of Indiana. Ivanka Trump has positioned herself as a millennial with a focus on issues that consistently register as top concerns for women voters.
This is our time to Make America Great Again! 3.12am BST
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02:36 Ivanka Trump promises to fight for equal pay and family leave
Barrack says nice words about Melania Trump: Ivanka Trump says that Trump micro-manages his job sites, talking to everyone from the painter to the super.
Melania I want to tell you, on behalf of 10,000 people in this arena and 50 million people watching, you are a timeless tribute to beauty, grace and elegance under pressure, you’re amazing. You’re awesome.” “When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, effort and excellence,” she says. Kind of generic-y.
That’s applauded heartily. Then she gets the biggest applause of the night, with lines about... equal pay. And family leave:
2.33am BST “At my father’s company there are more female than male executives. Women are paid equally for the work that they do, and when a woman becomes a mother she is supported, not shut out...
02:33 “As president, my father will change the labor laws.. .and he will focus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all.”
Here’s Tom Barrack, CEO of Colony Capital, real estate investor and former deputy undersecretary of the Department of the Interior in the Reagan administration. 3.09am BST
“Wow this is a wow,” he says. “I have to tell you I feel like the anchovy on Ivanka’s Caesar Salad. I know you’re salivating for that and you’re going to get it.” 03:09
“Donald Trump is one of my closest friends for 40 years,” he continues. He says he’s the son of a humble Lebanese grocer. And he’s speaking without notes or the Teleprompter. This is a seriously practiced public speaker. Ivanka Trump says father 'color-blind and gender neutral'
“You’re going to hate me for it, because you’re not going to hear one negative thing out of my mouth. I have nothing negative to say about Hillary, I have only good things to say about Donald,” he says. “My father not only has the strengh and ability to be the next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs,” she asserts.
2.30am BST “I’ve learned a lot about the world from walking construction sites by his side... competence in the building trade is easy to spot, and incompetence is impossible to hide.. there have always been men of all backgrounds and ethnicities on my father’s job sites, and women long before it was common.
02:30 “He is color-blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.”
More useful information about Donald Trump’s career, narrated by Donald Jr. 3.06am BST
It would be awesome to enjoy another tribute to Donald Trump's real estate career, narrated perhaps by one of his childr-- oh good. 03:06
2.27am BST Trump says that the goal that unites us all is “when this party and better still this country knows what winning feels like again.”
02:27 “If it’s possible to be famous and yet not really well known, that describes the father who raised me,” she says. Interesting. She reminisces about playing on the floor of his office, making buildings with legos, and Erector sets.
RNC applauds Thiel for 'proud to be gay' line “He taught us that there’s nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and passion with an enduring work ethic,” she says.
When Thiel says “who cares?” about bathrooms, there is clapping and cheers. 3.04am BST
Then he gets something of a standing ovation, from maybe a third of the crowd, when he says, “I am proud to be gay. But most of all I am proud to be an American.” 03:04
The crowd cheers him at the end, and he gives a toothy, kind of dopey grin, and stands there for a second before waving and wandering off, as if thinking, “well, that went well.” Ivanka Trump tells RNC she's not always a Republican
It did. Ivanka Trump says that her father prevailed against 16 competitors. “For more than a year Donald Trump has been the people’s champion, and tonight he is the people’s nominee,” she says.
“Like many of my fellow millennials I do not consider myself categorically Republican or Democrat,” she says. That factchecks true.
“This is the moment, and Donald Trump is the person to MAGA,” she says. She doesn’t really use the acronym but it’s faster to type.
“Real change is only going to come from outside the system,” she says.
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Thiel to tell RNC: 'I am proud to be gay' Ivanka Trump addresses convention
Next up is Peter Thiel, the PayPal founder and Facebook investor, the billionaire who financed multiple lawsuits against Gawker including one attached to Hulk Hogan’s sex tape, reportedly because he was mad at Gawker because a sister site published that he was gay. Well that’s a loud cheer now. The band plays Here Comes the Sun as she comes out. Somebody yells: “We love you Ivanka!!!!”
Thiel plans to tell the crowd “I am proud to be gay,” according to his prepared remarks. How will the crowd respond? Updated
Here’s an excerpt that Thiel has yet to get to: at 3.16am BST
When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. 3.02am BST
This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares? 03:02
Of course, every American has a unique identity. Look who’s watching at home:
I am proud to be gay. Trump's most challenging construction project is that hair.
I am proud to be a Republican. 2.58am BST
But most of all I am proud to be an American. 02:58
2.20am BST The prompter reads: “Ladies and gentlemen, please give a very warm welcome to Ivanka Trump.”
02:20 As soon as the video’s done playing. “Donald Trump has set his sights on a new rebuilding project” the video says.
Trump to speak in an hour 2.56am BST
Donald Trump is scheduled to make a speech accepting the Republican nomination for president in about one hour, around 10.15 pm. No going back now. 02:56
2.18am BST Now a video testimony to Trump from actor Jon Voight that begins, “as you know he is running for president.”
02:18 And it’s another biography of Trump and story of his career. “He became captain of the baseball team... after college, Donald faced a decision... Donald’s first project was less about building a project than reclaiming its soul.”
Priebus is done. The band is covering Can’t Get Enough (of your love). We made up those parentheses. While we wait for the next speaker, here’s some more three-dimensional chess from Ben Carson, who has said that the Trump children grew up at a disadvantage because they had money, which turns most kids into spoiled failures but look how good the Trumps turned out: 2.49am BST
The band is now doing REO Speedwagon again. Roll With the Changes. It’s a really great cover band. 02:49
It looks like they brought out a special black-and-gold lectern for the Trumps to speak at. We can’t quite see the front of it. Tell us there’s a gold T on there.
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This song has the refrain Make America Great Again, and there’s a screaming sax solo in it.