Donald Trump Officially Earned the GOP Nomination

Donald J. Trump earned the vote of the 1,237 delegates he needed to win the Republican Party nomination in the US 2016 presidential election at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio and the nomination becomes official when Trump's accepts it Thursday evening.

Trump's nomination came despite attempts by delegates from several states who led efforts to allow delegates to vote for the candidate of their choice, KMTV reported.

The respective state and territory delegations were introduced in order, except for Trump's home state of New York, which was taken out of order.

Trump finished with 1,725 of the total number of delegates, roughly 70 percent of the total number of delegates at the RNC.

Background on Trump from Katehon:

How did Donald Trump manage to become a realist? This is not the right question. The question, really, is why did the classical realist approach become marginal in the American political elite? Realism is based on common sense and a pragmatic, rational, and modernist vision of human nature. It is natural for anybody who has a power. If Trump’s argument is deemed to be eccentric, it means that there are problems with the consciousness of the American establishment and filled with myths and liberal dogmas… or it means America is ruled by somebody else, who represent another group, but not the US.

The basic distinction that marks realist political thought is not the moral dichotomy between good and evil, but a Schmittean distinction between friend and enemy. Evil Empires have no place on the realist map. A former foe can easily become an ally and vice-versa. The approach presumes that for any state there are no eternal friends and enemies, roles can change; only interests are more or less permanent. This approach that seems to be so tough is in fact more flexible then narrow-minded American liberal exceptionalism.

Donald Trump can bring to American foreign policy more tolerance and understanding of other powers, more openness to the outside world. The return from the policy of proliferation of democracy to good ol' power politics can make the world more stable. At least the US might behave more responsibly on the international stage