Electoral battles

RNC 2016: Donald Trump accepts Republican nomination, pledges to rebuild military

Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination for president Thursday, promising to “completely rebuild our depleted military” and to take care of veterans “like they’ve never been taken care of before.”

The business mogul also vowed that as commander in chief, he would end America’s “international humiliation” at the hands of Democrats.

“Hillary Clinton’s legacy does not have to be America’s legacy,” Trump told a wildly applauding crowd at the GOP convention here. “The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them.