RNC Day 1: Trump passes threshold of votes needed for renomination, suggests crowd chant '12 more years'
Republicans opened their scaled-back national convention Monday with a roll call vote to formally renominate President Donald Trump to top the Republican ticket in November.
ABC News Live will kick off primetime coverage each day at 7 p.m. ET on the network's streaming news channel, and primetime coverage will air from 10-11 p.m. ET each night of the convention on the ABC Television Network. Check back here for live updates starting at 7 p.m. Biden and other speakers at last week's Democratic National Convention did not travel to the host city of Milwaukee due to coronavirus concerns.12:45 p.m. Trumps makes first RNC appearance
"This is the greatest scam in the history of politics, I think, and I'm talking about beyond our nation. They act like they are aggrieved by saying this, saying such a horrible thing, we are not patriotic by saying this. No," Trump said."We voted during World War I. We voted at the voting booth during World War II. The pandemic we are doing very well -- and people know how to handle it -- look at the crowds. They are doing very well. It's very safe.
"What they're doing is using COVID to steal an election. They're using COVID to defraud the American people -- all of our people -- of a fair and free election," Trump claimed."We can't do that. Don't let them give you the post office stuff." Notably, Trump's political opponent Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for vice president, is the first HBCU graduate to be nominated for national office by a major political party.
With Nevada, 1,284 delegates have renominated Trump as the party's nominee, surpassing the 1,276 delegate threshold to win the nomination, based on an ABC News analysis of the delegate count. "It is a joy to be with you at the 2020 Republican National Convention here in North Carolina," Pence said."I heard there a unanimous vote a little bit earlier, and I'll have more to say that at Fort McHenry on Wednesday night."
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