Trump to be elected Tuesday as official Republican presidential candidate

Magnate Donald Trump will be officially elected Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Republican candidate for president of the United States, his campaign director Paul Manafort announced.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, who last February became the first lawmaker in the U.S. upper house to lend his support to the New York multimillionaire’s presidential campaign, will place the magnate’s name in nomination Tuesday night, Manafort told a press conference in Cleveland.

Before the delegates cast their votes, two of Trump’s allies, New York Rep. Chris Collins and North Carolina Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster, will give individual speeches in support of the presumptive candidate.

The balloting will take place a day after rebel delegates demanded Monday a statebystate roll call vote to change the party’s rules in order to replace the results of the primaries, won by Trump in the majority of states.

However, the uprising was halted by Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack, who presided over the session.

Womack ruled that the antiTrump rebels did not fulfill the requirements for the roll call vote, and, faced with continuing outcries, decided to end the dispute without letting it go any further.

Trump’s “coronation” also came after the surprising appearance the magnate made this Monday at the Quicken Loans Arena, which is hosting the convention and where he presented his wife Melania as “the next first lady of the United States.”

The multimillionaire’s third wife, a former Slovene model and naturalized U.S. citizen, gave her expected speech of praise for her husband’s ability to be president.

A speech perhaps not as impressive as intended after various media reported that parts of it were practically a copy of one Michelle Obama gave on behalf of husband Barack back in 2008.