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Speaker Paul Ryan assured the crowd during day two of the Republican National Convention that 2016 is the year that America moves on and that the Clinton years are way over.
Day two of TrumpFest 2016 is officially done, and Donald Trump has<span style="color: Red;">*</span>gone from “presumptive” nominee to actual Republican nominee for president. Here’s everything you need to catch up on what happened:
[h=2]Once-reluctant Paul Ryan pleads for unity behind Trump[/h]The speaker of the House, who initially delayed endorsing Trump and has repeatedly publicly disagreed with the Republican nominee, is now pleading for unity behind Trump.
"Our candidates will be giving their all, their utmost, and every one of us has got to do the same," he<span style="color: Red;">*</span>told the convention Tuesday.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"So what do you say ... what do you say that we unite this party, at this crucial moment when unity is everything?"
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Paul Ryan makes less a case for Trump than a case for conservative ideas
The Wisconsin Republican waited to endorse<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Trump<span style="color: Red;">*</span>after the New York developer had won enough states to clinch the nomination, saying he wasn't ready. A month later, he pressed on with publicly endorsing him, and within days in June, Ryan was ripping Trump for remarks about a Latino judge that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Ryan called "sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment."
On Tuesday, six weeks later, he urged Republicans to "get on the offensive" and "stay there"
"Let’s compete in every part of America, and turn out at the polls like every last vote matters, because it will," Ryan said. "Fellow Republicans, what we have begun here, let’s see it through … let’s win this thing … let’s show America our best and nothing less."
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Paul Ryan rips Trump comments as 'textbook definition of racist'
[h=2]Trump children deliver (their own) speeches[/h]Tiffany Trump, a recent college graduate, offered stories about how her father wrote sweet notes on her report cards and wasn't as ruthlessly focused on results as one might think. Donald Trump Jr., executive vice president of the Trump Organization, spoke about watching his dad run businesses since he learned to walk.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>He sought to paint his father as an executive who gets down in the trenches and is not a hands-off manager locked away in an office.
“For my father impossible is just the starting point,” he said, adding that just a year ago,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Trump winning the nomination seemed an impossibility.
Despite Donald Jr's hinting at potential nerves earlier, that was not readily evident.
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Trump children offer personal tales of their father
[h=2]Master trolling by camp Hillary[/h]While New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivered a stem-winding speech seeking to "indict" presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for the email controversy and other issues during<span style="color: Red;">*</span>her tenure as secretary of State, her team was ready with an epic response.
[h=2]Clinton: 'Let's do this'[/h]Her social media team also reacted as Trump officially clinched the Republican nomination for president.
It was New York state that put Trump over the vote threshold he needed.
Donald Trump Jr., alongside siblings Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany, made the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>announcement that the state threw 89 votes on his father's total.
The official process had started<span style="color: Red;">*</span>shortly after 6 p.m. ET when the presiding officer began calling the roll asking each state how many delegates they are pledging to what candidates. It's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>often the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>favorite part for political convention geeks.
There were all manner of ceremonial machinations, like the sometimes cheesy introductions state delegates deliver.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The representative from<span style="color: Red;">*</span>American Samoa, for example, before announcing its nine delegates for Trump, noted that Samoa is the greatest exporter of players to the National Football League.
And it is also ceremonial to allow the presumptive nominee's home state to put the candidate over the top. USA TODAY's David Jackson has<span style="color: Red;">*</span>more on the big moment here.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
Such a great honor to be the Republican Nominee for President of the United States. I will work hard and never let you down! AMERICA FIRST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2016
[h=2]NRA all in for Trump[/h]The executive director of the National Rifle Association's lobbying arm delivered a clear message: If Hillary Clinton is elected, kiss your guns goodbye.
Chris Cox said the Supreme Court pick up for grabs means the right to bear arms could be in jeopardy.
"Friends, that question is on the ballot in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>November," he said.
Cox touted the lifelong NRA membership of Donald Trump and sons Eric and Donald and said the NRA and its 5 million members would do everything they could to help elect Trump.
[h=2]Watch a senator (try to)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>hold<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the support-not-endorse<span style="color: Red;">*</span>line[/h]Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., a prime-time speaker Tuesday and one of the most vulnerable senators up for re-election this fall, is walking the same tightrope as a number of his fellow Republicans have chosen: pledging to “support” Trump<span style="color: Red;">*</span>but not necessarily “endorse” him.
I sat down with him before his speech<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and tried to ask<span style="color: Red;">*</span>what the difference is.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>More than once. "Don't worry about the words," he asserted.
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Republican Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin told USA TODAY's Donovan Slack he will do anything to get Donald Trump elected as the next President of the United States. Some may think that is an endorsement, but not Ron Johnson. Kelly Jordan, USA TODAY
[h=2]Getting back to The Donald Junior …[/h]He seems to have a good sense of humor about his father’s, um, hair. It started with a for-the-record-books tweet from former GOP presidential candidate and senator Bob Dole.
[h=2]Melania and the 'My Little Pony' Defense[/h]We may have officially jumped<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the shark<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in Cleveland as Melania speechgate fallout<span style="color: Red;">*</span>forced<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Republicans into verbal pretzels to explain why portions of the prospective first lady’s speech Monday mimicked word-for-word those of Michelle Obama’s convention speech in 2008.
Sean Spicer, communications director at the Republican National Committee, actually quoted Sparkle from “My Little Pony” in an explanation on CNN.
“Melania Trump said ‘the strength of your dreams and willingness to work for them.’ Twilight sparkle from My Little Pony said, ‘This is your dream, anything you can do in your dreams you can do now,’ ” Spicer said, adding that the inspirational phrases in Melania Trump’s speech have been used by many people, including John Legend and Kid Rock.
He said the portions that mirrored the first lady’s remarks comprised only 70 words in three passages in a 2,000-word address. “It’s sad that we’ve taken this amazing moment with the world introduction of Melania Trump and gone through and allowed the (Hillary) Clinton campaign to say, ‘Hey we googled a bunch of phrases and matched it up to three things Mrs. Obama said.' "
Well, the media — and Twitter — didn't seem to want to let it go.
And John Legend delivered an epic response, quoting Taylor Swift:
[h=2]Justice Department gets involved ... sort of[/h]An employee at the Department of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Justice<span style="color: Red;">*</span>took to the agency's official Twitter account to share thoughts on Melania's speech and they were dutifully captured before being deleted.
The Huffington Post's Ryan J. Reilly reports<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the agency's response.
[h=2]Director Spike Lee unloads on Omarosa[/h]One day after Omarosa Manigault announced the Trump campaign had tapped her as the new director of outreach to the African-American community, film director Spike Lee on Tuesday unleashed an insanely cutting diatribe against her on Instagram.
“Who’s next? Step N’ Fetchit? Aunt Jemina? Uncle Ben?” he wrote alongside a photo of her with a clown nose.
She replied in a now-deleted tweet accusing him of using divisive terms and taking a cheap shot. USA TODAY’s Jaleesa M. Jones has more on the exchange here:
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Spike Lee calls out Omarosa Manigault over her new appointment to Trump's campaign
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