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Trump is now official Republican nominee
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U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, R-Gainesville
With supporters and protesters squaring off in the streets, and despite flurries of dissent on the convention floor, Donald Trump formally secured the Republican nomination for president on Tuesday. The final delegate count capped the billionaire businessman’s stunning takeover of the GOP and propelled him into a November faceoff with Democrat Hillary Clinton. “There’s no convention to look forward to,” U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, R-Gainesville, said.