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The Republican Party announced Donald Trump as their official presidential candidate for the next general election during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Tuesday. The 2016 US presidential elections will take place on Tuesday, November 8.
Leader of Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders attended an LGBT event as part of the Republican National Convention programme in Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday. Addressing a group of Republicans, Wilders voiced his support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Wilders also used his speech to criticise the presence of Muslim communities in Europe.
Famed boxing promoter Don King talked to the press briefly on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday. King stated that he supports Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump because "we will create a whole new system, we will take this system apart. America first, and we are going to make America great again. Nothing else but that.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addressed the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees at Las Vegas Convention Centre, Tuesday. Clinton took aim at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying "the President has to speak on behalf of all the American people, has to try to put us together and not to drive us apart. Can you imagine Donald Trump in that position?"
Chaos erupted at the Republican National Convention on its first day in Cleveland when anti-Trump forces within the GOP tried to block Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s nomination. After Deputy Permanent Chair from Arkansas Steve Womack mentioned the Rules Committee report that binds delegates to Trump, anti-Trump republicans called for a roll call vote to allow delegates to vote “their conscience.”