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Republican Convention to focus on immigration, a day after Trump becomes official nominee

Former US president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (C) sits next to US Senator from Ohio and 2024 Republican vice-president candidate J. D. Vance during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 15, 2024. © Patrick T. Fallon, AFP

The Republican National Convention heads into its second day Tuesday in Wisconsin, with the focus shifting to immigration, an issue central to former US president Donald Trump's platform that helped him secure his GOP nomination during his first presidential campaign in 2015. Trump, who was greeted enthusiastically by the crowd following a failed assassination attempt over the weekend, officially secured the party's presidential nomination on Monday. 

Two days after surviving an attempted assassination, former President Donald Trump appeared triumphantly at the Republican National Convention’s opening night with a bandage over his right ear, the latest compelling scene in a presidential campaign already defined by dramatic turns. 

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