GOP Officially Nominates Coup-Attempting, Convicted Criminal Donald Trump For President

MILWAUKEE — Republicans on Monday officially nominated as their 2024 presidential nominee Donald Trump ― a convicted felon who attempted a coup to remain in power the last time he held office and who survived an assassination attempt two days ago.

A native of New York City, Trump chose to have the delegation from Florida give him the delegates necessary for a majority of the total available. He moved his official residence to the state during his first term as president.

The announcement that all 125 of the state’s delegates would be cast for Trump ― “Every single one of them!” ― was made by his son Eric, and came just 17 minutes after Trump’s announcement that Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance would be his running mate. It was followed by a brief break in the roll call of states as the cover band played an abridged version of Kool & the Gang’s “Celebration.”

The 2024 nomination is Trump’s third in three election cycles and cements his continued hold on a party he had almost nothing to do with until he began his run for president in June 2015.

In 2016, after Trump’s delegate count passed the threshold needed to secure his nomination at the GOP convention in Cleveland, the New York delegation had cheered wildly as Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” played while others on the convention floor offered polite applause or remained seated.

Four years later, as the COVID pandemic raged and state and local governments imposed limits on the number of people who could congregate indoors, Trump had staged his nominating convention at the White House, where he would not be subject to such rules and could have as many people as he wanted. The choice flouted federal law and longstanding norms regarding the use of presidential resources for