Stephanopoul stephanopoulos. Good evening and welcome to day two here in cleveland. Its official now. Tonight, donald trump has become the republican nominee for the United States. He has rolled over more than a dozen republican candidates and here is that piece of history. Put over the top by his son, don jr. It is my honor to be able to throw donald trump over the top in the delegate count tonight with 89 delegates. And another 6 for john kasich. Congratulations, dad, we love you then just about an hour ago, donald trump spoke to this convention for the second time in two nights. And bracing that moment. Today has been a very, very special day, watching my children put me over the top earlier. What we did getting the partys nominee. I will never forget it. It is something i will never, ever forget. A little over one year ago, i announced my candidacy for president. And with your vote today, this stage of the president ial process has come to a close. Were going to bring back our jobs. Were going to rebuild our depleted military and take care of our great veterans. Were going to have strong borders. Were going to get rid of isis and were going to restore law and order we have to restore, and quickly. Law and order, among many, so many things. I will be discussing that. Thursday night, i will be talking all about it. But together, most importantly, we are going to make America Great again. Have a fantastic evening. Ill see you tomorrow night. Ill see you on thursday night. And we will win in november. Thank you. Mini acceptance speech from donald trump. We expect donald trump jr. To come out many moment. Im here with matthew dowd. Here comes don jr. Thank you. Good evening. Im donald trump jr. Im the thank you. Thank you. Im the father of five Young Children from 2yearold chloe who kai who just turned 9. Im husband to vanessa, an amazing wife and mother, and the son of a great man. Im an american. And tonight, i want to talk to you about the country we live in. The country our children will grow up in. For my generation, this is the most important election of our lifetime, when that will determine the future of our country and in turn the future of the world. For too long, our country has ignored its problems, punting them down the road for future generations to deal with. In business, i was trained by my father to make the tough investments and decisions today to ensure a Brighter Future tomorrow. We have actually started to believe that solving our great problems is an impossible task. That is why we need to elect a man who has a track record of accomplishing the impossible. For the first time, parents no longer think that their kids will be as well off as we were. Weve lost the confidence in our leaders and the faith in our institutions. But remember one thing. Were still americans. Were still one country. And were going to get it all back. Were going to get it back better than ever before. I know well get it back because i know my father. I know that when people tell him it cant be done, that guarantees that he gets it done. I know that when someone tells him that something is impossible, thats what triggers him into action. When people told him it was impossible for a boy from queen fos go to manhattan and take on developers from the big city, rather than give up, he changed the skyline of new york. Ive seen it time and time again. That look in his eyes, when someone says it cant be done. I saw that look a little over a year ago. When he was told he couldnt possibly succeed in politics. Hmm, yes, he did. For my father, impossible is just the starting point. Thats how he approaching business projects, thats how he approaches life. Whether its teaching his granddaughter how to swing golf club or tackling the toughest negotiations, hes always fully committed. Thats why the person who had never run for office before stood on the stage 11 months ago in this very arena with 16 professional politicians, and this week, that same man will stand before you as our partys nominee for the president of the United States of america as a proud son and family member, it was one of the great honors of my life to be able to put him over the top in the delegate count earlier today. His unrelenting determination is why hes going to become our next president. And why i know that when my father says he can fix the country, he means it. You want to know what kind of president hell be . Let me tell you how he ran his businesses. And i know, because i was there with him by his side on job sites, in Conference Rooms from the time i could walk. He didnt hide out behind a desk in an executive suite. He spent his career with regular americans. He hung out with the guys on construction sites. Pouring concrete and hajjing sheet rock. He paid attention and more than the guys in harvard and wharton locked away from offices in the real work. He is with the talent and the drive that all americans have. Hes promoted people based on their character, street smarts and work ethic. Not simply paper intercredentials. To this day, many of the top executives were people who started out in blue collar but he pushed them to succeed. His true gift as a leader is that he sees the potential in people that they didnt even see in themselves. The potential that other executives would overlook because their resumes dont include the names of fancy colleges and degrees. I know he values those workers and qualities in people because those are the qualities he instilled in me when we started out. That he could trust our formative years in these men and women says all you need to know about dont trump. We didnt learn from mbas. We learned from people who had doctorates in common sense. Guys like denny who operated chain saws who worked through the ranks to be a trusted adviser of my father. Why we are the only children of a billionaire as comfortable in a d10 caterpillar as we are in our own cars in of my father knew those were the guys and gals to teachous dignity and hard work from a young age. The idea that whoever we are, wherever were from we can get ahead. Where everyone can proper together. The other party tells us they believe in the american dream. We should worry about economic inequality and immobility. You know what . Theyre right. But they dont tell you it was their policies that caused the problem and it was their policies that have no accountability. They gave us the worst immigration system in the world. One that imports immobility, one that drives down employment and wages for hispanic americans, africanamericans and everyone. An immigration system that favors illegals over those tries to go through the process legally. And at times, even over lawabiding citizens. It was Bernie Sanders himself who warned that a large tide of new workers keeps the wages low and the poverty high. And schools that fail our students, those who have no options. Growing up, my siblings and i, we were truly fortunate to have choices and options that others dont have. We want all americans to have those same opportunities. Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class. Now theyre stalled on the ground floor. Theyre like sovietera Department Stores run for the clerks and not the customers dprks the teachers and administrators and not the opportunities. You know why other countries do well in k through 12 . They let parents choose where to send their kids. Its called competition. Its called free market. And its what the other party fears. They fear it because theyre more concerned about protecting the jobs of tenured teachers than serving the students in desperate need of a good education. They want to run everything, top down from washington. They tell us theyre the experts and they know whats best. The other party gave us a regulatory state on steroids. Doddfrank was 1,000 pages long and its already spun off 22,000 pages in regulations. Imagine trying to digest all that before you even open your doors for consumers. That doesnt help consumers. It destroys Small Businesses in favor of big businesses who can afford the lawyers and numbers needed to comply. Dodfrank is Consumer Protection for billionaires. We have the thickest patronage of any country of any time in history. Selfsatisfied people at the top. The new aristocrats. We cant live like that any longer. Its too risky. Let ple talk about the risks. The other party is a party of risk. I have spent many time with many great americans who have sempbed this great country in the military. And they know whats at stake. When we have weak i leaders in mission positions of power, americans risking their lives for freedom are less safe. Almost daily, i get a call or a text from a real american hero. His name is mark geist and im proud to call him a friend. Mark was part of the Security Team at benghazi. He received frantic phone calms from the b compound. Calls that pleaded for help. Calls that he tried to answer. Calls that didnt save all his friends. Because secretary clinton ignored his request for help leading up to the months and weeks up to the attack. It was a tragedy and one that would be repeated were she to win the election. Ask mark who is fit to lead, who has the judgment to lead, who will take that call at 3 00 in the morning, yeah. Or better yet, ask yourselves if you were in marks shoes that night, who would you rather call . Let me tell you something about risk. If Hillary Clinton were elected, she would be the first president who wouldnt pass a basic background check. Its incredible. Hillary clinton is a risk americans cant afford to take. She says she will issue executive orders to take away americans guns. She wants to abolish the second amendment. Look at inner city chicago. Where 70 people were murdered last month alone and where over 3400 american lives have been lost since this Administration Took Office in 2009. You know why those laws fail . Criminals by definition dont follow laws. Rather than prosecuting real criminals, she could strip hardworking, lawabiding citizens to protect their families. She will throw every obstacle to Affordable Energy produced by america, by americans for american businesses and families. Rather than energy independent, our country will be beholden to her buddies in the middle east. Those are risks we cant afford to take. And when we win, were not going to have to. Theres so much work to do. We will not accept the current state of our country because its too hard to change. Thats not the america i know. Were going to unleash the creative spirit and energy of all americans. Were going to make our schools the best in the world for every single american for every single ethnicity and background. Were going to put americans first. All americans, not a special class of crony elites at the top of the heap. Were going to elect a president who will work with everyone to pass legislation that will make our country great again. A president who will give us a tax code that will free the American Economy and end special loopholes for the wealthy. A president who will give us an Immigration Law that protects american citizens and gives them jobs. A president who will repeal and replace obama care without leaving our citizens without health care and without destroying seniors for health care has Hillary Clinton has proposed. A president who knows we cant simply delete our problems but that we have to tackle them head on. A president who wont allow pc culture to put the safety and wellbeing of our children and loved ones at stake. A president who wont bow and pander to nations that shudder at the very thought of americas existence. A president more concerned about the safety of his fellow americans than the feelings of hostile nations aboard that would wipe america off the face of this earth. A president not beholden to special interests, foreign and domestic, and one who funded his entire primary run out of his own pocket just to prove it. A president who will secure and defend the borders of the United States and believes freedom requires a government. A president who wont use the highest office in the land as a path to personal enrichment. A president whos actually created real jobs who has actually signed the front of a paycheck and who doesnt just talk about it in theory. A president who has real peoples families and livelihoods dependent on his success and the success of his companies for decades. A president who speaks his mind and nopt just when it behooves him to do so. Who doesnt use a focus group and analytics to be able to form a simple opinion. Who say what is needs to be said and not just what you want to hear. A president who will unleash the greatness in our nation and in all of us, who will give the hardworking men and women who built this great country a voice once again. That president can only be my mentor, my best friend, my father, donald trump. And when we elect him, well have done all that. Well have made America Great again, greater than ever before. Thank you, and god bless. [ cheers and applause ] donald trump jr. , brings this convention to its feet. He worked through some butterflies at the start. Gave a very powerful speech. You can see the father and the son right there. And matthew, you also saw imbedded in the speech, one of the mottos of the campaign. He said, donald trump can do the impossible. And donald trump, a larger than life reality tv star whose signature phrase what youre fired has now been hired. And no one else has electrified the crowd like donald trump jr. Everyone here is here to see a trump. And donald trump jr. Brought them to their feet. If donald trump gives that speech on thursday night with that president ial atone, there are going to be a lot of happy republicans. Happier than they have been so far. And the policy as well, you are reminded, hes the real republican and conservative in the family. He was the one republican, his brothers and sister were not registered republicans, couldnt vote in the primary. But that was the most substative speech. This is a policy speech, invoked the feelings of jack kemp, paul ryan. He talked about opportunity, school choice. That was a republican speech and i think the most effective speech we have seen in the convention so far. A reminder this is as much a Republican Convention this a trump convention. Absolutely a trump convention. And the trumps are the people the people at the Convention Want to hear from. Even the people who have not signed off on donald trump enthusiastically have told me, the kids are the people they want to hear from. This speech not only did good policy. But also talked about his father as a determined person and then sweet anecdotes just mixed in without them being syrupy. But all of Donald Trumps children except the 10yearold standing there, saying we put our father over the top as the nominee of the Republican Party. That is a moment in history. No question about it. And it follows Melania Trump, Donald Trumps wife last night. I want to go to david muir. All day long, the Trump Campaign has had to deal with the controversy with Melania Trump blamed for taking words from Michelle Obama. The bravado that the trumps for known for, he was talking about his nerves going in, he said it would be 11 to 12 minutes except for the applause. And i said it was going to be a welcoming crowd. As you said, this crowd wants to hear from the trumps. As you mentioned, there was a lot of pressure coming in, and last night, it was melania taking the stage and all the similarities between the two speeches. I asked donald trump if anyone would be fired. He said no. And i asked if it was plagiarism, he said no. And what i asked about the first lady. Do you believe Michelle Obama is owed an apology in any way. I dont know. Whoever is involved, i dont think so. I dont think this is something of that magnitude. I understand from a media perspective, trying to create a bigger story than it is. So no apology. I dont know v think so. Do you think a head should roll . A speech of that magnitude, they are going to work with speech writers. It doesnt have to do with a poll or nonsense that im hearing. Do you suspect that your father is angry that someone allowed im sure hes not thrilled about the situation but were going to move on. Don jr. , i did ask him if he wrote mhis speech tonight. And he said yes, and i said with help, and he said, of course. It strikes me to see their children there and Tiffany Trump followed by don jr. On the stage, that this is the new family business, politics, and they plan to take it to the white house. Lets stay on the floor. Tom llamas is there. You have been with the Trump Campaign from the very beginning. Donald trump has to be outraged. It was his wife. The first major public interduction. And the headline was that eggs were stolen. I have covered donald trump. He does not like criticism. I have had exchanging with him as we all know. Criticism is something he does not like when it comes to his family and or his wife. But the Trump Campaign hopes to move beyond this. And i think it will help them get beyond this. What we have seen there from don, he is Donald Trumps son but he is one of his closest advisers. The trump children are really the incircle of this campaign. They have been there for every single major decision. And to their credit, when a lot of people didnt believe in donald trump, his children were behind him every single step of the way. I spoke to him after the top moment when he was able to proclaim the new york vote. And he said its the coolest thing since hes had children to ever happen. He said it was so intense. And eric trump, he is in pure jubilation that this happened and they are able to do it through the state of new york. And eric trumps wife telling me that eric trump is going to deliver the best speech. Saying shes impartial. You get eric tomorrow night. Ivanka thursday. It did feel like during don jr. s speech, the convention