RNC 2024 Day 1 updates: Bandaged and emotional, Trump makes 1st appearance since assassination attempt
Chants of "we love Trump" could be heard as he entered the RNC.
The first day of the Republican National Convention has wrapped up in Milwaukee -- marked with an appearance by former President Donald Trump just two days he was wounded in an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday evening.
Despite the shooting, the gathering of more than 50,000 attendees, including an expected 2,400 Republican delegates, is slated to maintain its original programming as a time to bring the party together -- but now newly energized by Trump's amazing survival and raised-fist show of defiance.
One of the most anticipated moments of Trump's campaign happened Monday when Trump named 39-year-old Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate.
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Trump announces Vance as his running mate
Trump announced Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance will be his running mate, writing on Truth Social that the Ohio Republican is "the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States."
The decision caps off months of speculation and sees Trump elevate a 39-year-old first-term senator whose roughly year and a half tenure in the Senate has seen him emerge as a staunch ideological ally of the former president.
GOP party platform passes
The Republicans have passed their party platform, despite dissent from the evangelical wing over softened language on abortion that better matches Trump's current posture. A fair amount of "nayes" were heard in the convention hall, but not enough for the vote to fail.
Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., told delegates that the "platform was personally approved by President Donald J. Trump."
"It's a different kind of platform," said platform co-chair Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., as she presented the platform for a vote.
"It is not a laundry list of special interests' wishes, but a succinct, clear agenda and a promise to the American people."Before the overwhelming voice vote in Milwaukee, the platform had passed 84-14 by the platform committee.-ABC News' Brittany Shepherd, Tommy Barone and Jacob Steinberg
Burgum told he is not Trump's running mate
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has been told he is not Trump's running mate pick, three sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
Trump's pick is expected to be announced at some point Monday.
-ABC News' Rachel Scott, Rick Klein, Katherine Faulders
RNC officially underway
The Republican National Convention is underway. A live rendition of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" filled the convention center in Milwaukee. Groups of delegate were seen before and during these opening ceremonies pumping their fists and chanting "fight, fight, fight," taking up former President Trump's gesture after the shooting at his rally as a symbol for the party's nominating convention.
Crowds continued the chant during "God Bless the USA" ahead of a vote on the party's platform.
RNC co-chair Michael Whatley gaveled the convention to order and asked for a moment of silence to honor the shooting.
As Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was announced as an honorary co-chair, audible boos were heard from the crowd. The Senate leader, who will step down from his perch atop the GOP conference, has had a frosty relationship with the former president since Jan. 6, 2021.
-ABC News' Jay O'Brien