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‘Four more years’: Trump formally accepts GOP nomination from White House

By Ebony Bowden

August 27, 2020 | 10:38pm | Updated

President Trump accepts the GOP nomination tonight at the White House BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

 

President Trump formally accepted the GOP nomination for reelection on Thursday evening in front of a sea of guests on the White House South Lawn on the final night of the 2020 Republican National Convention.

“We are one national family, and we will always protect, love and care for each other,” Trump, 74, said to thunderous applause from the crowd of supporters after emerging from the White House with first lady Melania Trump to the sounds of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.”

“My fellow Americans, tonight with a heart full of gratitude and boundless optimism, I profoundly accept the nomination for president of the United States,” he said to wild cheers of “four more years!”

The president shared his sympathy with those in the path of Hurricane Laura at the top of his address and promised he would “spare no effort” to save lives.

The address began on an emotional note as he thanked Melania, and his children and grandchildren, saying, “I love you more than words can express,” and paid tribute to his late brother, Robert Trump, who passed away earlier this month.

The president settled on the executive mansion last month after he was forced to cancel a raucous, in-person convention in Jacksonville amid the pandemic, and in an Oval Office interview told The Post he believed a White House address would make the country “feel good.”

The move angered Democrats and critics of the president who said it was “inappropriate” that he was campaigning on federal property, a violation of the Hatch Act which does not actually apply to him or the vice president.

Trump’s crowning on Thursday completes his takeover of a party which just four years ago considered him an interloper.

Against all odds, the Manhattan property developer and former Democrat triumphed over a field of GOP insider candidates, causing so much ill-will in the party that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz refused to endorse Trump in his 2016 convention speech when he was forced to pull the plug on his White House bid and concede to him.

Cruz did not score an invite to this year’s convention.

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