CHARLOTTE, N.C — President Donald Trump has been renominated as the GOP’s presidential candidate.
Republicans made it official during a scaled-back roll call vote on Monday at the Charlotte Convention Center in North Carolina.
The party gathered 336 delegates for the roll call vote at a scaled-down Republican National Convention kickoff in Charlotte, beginning a weeklong effort to convince the American people that Trump deserves a second term in the White House.
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, delegates are holding an in-person roll-call vote at the Charlotte Convention Center. Democrats, who held their convention last week, chose to hold their roll call vote created a video montage from states across the country to avoid a large-scale gathering.
Now that delegates have completed the task of formally renominating Trump, much of the remaining convention business will shift to the Washington, D.C., area.
Trump is scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech from the White House South Lawn on Thursday evening.
Democrats nominated former Vice President Joe Biden as their presidential candidate at their all-virtual convention last week.
This is a developing story. Check back later for further updates.
