While the conference center where the Republican Party’s convention played Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York, the party celebrated its latest incarnation, discreetly forgetting, for the moment, the party it used to be.
In the end, pragmatism and the pressing need to defeat Clinton and dismantle Obama’s legacy has won out over the fear that President Trump initially inspired in the upper echelons of the Republican Party.
The key speakers on Tuesday were House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, considered the party’s moral authority, and Mitch McConnel, leader of the Republican majority in the Senate.
At exactly 7.16pm local time in Cleveland, Ohio, the state of New York gave Donald Trump the 1,238 delegates the property magnate needed to win the Republican Party’s nomination in November’s presidential elections.
Carried out live, the count, in which each state’s contribution is announced in alphabetical order, confirmed Trump’s supremacy over a reborn Republican Party.
Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/20/inenglish/1469011131_328970.html
