Here's the latest from Courthouse News' team of reporters at the Republican National Committee's presidential nominating convention in Cleveland.
9:27 p.m.
CLEVELAND (CN) - With Donald Trump now officially at the top of the Republican ticket, Republican party faithful can begin the process of sewing up its tears in earnest.
Despite efforts from some anti-Trump forces at the Republican National Convention this week to disrupt Trump's preordained path to the nomination, the brash billionaire handily won the party nomination Tuesday evening.
Delegates on the floor cheered as his victory was announced, and some say they are happy to finally have a focal point for the party to finally get behind.
"I think everybody is exhaling, you know what I mean?" Rico Petrocelli, a state committeeman and delegate from Florida told Courthouse News. "You want to get it to the point where you are right now where you can unite. These people can go back to their 50 states and islands and say hey, we have a job to do now."
Petrocelli said there weren't efforts from within his delegation to try to disrupt Trump's coronation.
Speaking in favor of falling behind the Republican nominee, one delegate told the Florida group that just because a team's quarterback is benched doesn't mean the team's offensive line stops blocking for his replacement, Petrocelli said.
"This is the pressure valve letting go," he said.
Even a delegate for Sen. Ted Cruz who sported a pro-Cruz button on the convention floor said that while he felt obligated to back the Texan for the nomination, he had resigned himself to Trump's inevitability.
"It was determined largely in Indiana," Louisiana delegate Michael Bayham told Courthouse News. "No surprise there. Thirteen million voters supported Mr. Trump, who won an overwhelming majority of the states and he's the nominee. There should be no shock there."
To Bayman, there was no sense in attempting to disrupt Trump's nomination, as it would "sabotage" the party's job in November.
Bayman and Petrocelli said it is now up to party loyalists like those on the floor of Quicken Loans Arena to rally behind Trump and win the presidency.
"A lot of it is what Donald does as a candidate," Bayman told Courthouse News. "He made a good step with picking [Indiana Gov. Mike] Pence, who's respected by a lot of conservatives. He's attacked the democratic candidate, something neither of our last two candidates bothered to do. He's fighting and that's something that we haven't had from a presidential nominee since I don't know when."
But not all Cruz backers were as amiable as Bayman.
Texas delegate Kris Schafer, who wore a red shirt emblazoned with his support of his home state's senator, said he was "concerned for the future of the party" after Trump's official nomination.
"I go back to getting conservatives elected," Schafer told Courthouse News, of what he does now that Trump has been nominated.
He also would not say that he would throw his full support behind Trump, though he said he is required to support the candidate as a sitting delegate.
He said that the only thing that could heal the party would be if Trump actually goes through with some of the things he has said he would do in the White House. Schafer was skeptical this would happen, however.
