Donald Trump Joins Short List of Three-Time Presidential Nominees After RNC Roll Call Vote
GOP delegates gathered in Milwaukee on Monday afternoon to cast their votes for Trump as the party's 2024 presidential nominee
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Delegates cheer for Donald Trump on day one of the 2024 Republican National Convention in MilwaukeeDonald Trump is officially the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nominee, following a procedural roll call vote on Monday, July 15. He has selected Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance to join him on the ticket as the vice presidential nominee.
On day one of the Republican National Convention, nearly 2,500 GOP delegates gathered at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee to affirm in a voice vote that Trump will be on the general election ballot in November for a third time.
Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee in March, when he secured more than 50% of his party's delegates.
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The convention floor at the 2024 RNC on July 15Very few major-party candidates have been nominated for the presidency more than twice. Among them are Thomas Jefferson, Richard Nixon and three-time loser William Jennings Bryan.
Democrat Grover Cleveland, who remains the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms, was also nominated three times. And Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only president to serve more than two terms in office, was nominated a record four times before term limits were established.
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Trump glided to victory in the 2024 Republican primaries amid numerous criminal and civil investigations into his actions before, during and after his term in office.
Several challengers joined the GOP primary race in an attempt to release Trump's grip on the Republican Party, though all fell far short of posing a real threat. The second-place candidate, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, earned 97 delegates to Trump's 2,260.
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