Late Edition Today, cloudy, strong afternoon and evening thunderstorms, hot, humid, high 92. Tonight, humid, low 78. To- morrow, partly sunny, high 95. Weather map appears on Page A18. VOL. CLXV . No. 57,301 + © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2016 $2.50 TRUMP, AS NOMINEE, VOWS: ‘I AM YOUR VOICE’ NEWS ANALYSIS Focuses on Threats to Failed Chance Nation as He Takes To Humanize G.O.P. Mantle Outsize Image By PATRICK HEALY and JONATHAN MARTIN By MICHAEL BARBARO CLEVELAND — Donald John Trump ac- CLEVELAND — It was Don- cepted the Republican presidential nomina- ald J. Trump’s best chance to tion on Thursday night with an unusually escape his own caricature. vehement appeal to Americans who feel He did not. that their country is spiraling out of control After 40 years in the public and yearn for a leader who will take ag- eye, Mr. Trump decided on gressive, even extreme, actions to protect Thursday night that he was not them. interested in revealing himself to Mr. Trump, 70, a New York real estate de- America with disarming tales of veloper and reality television star who his upbringing, hard-earned leveraged his fame and forceful persona to lessons from his tumultuous become the rare political outsider to lead career or the inner struggles the ticket of a major party, drew exuberant masked by his outward pompos- cheers from Republican convention dele- ity. gates as he strode onto the stage of the In the most consequential Quicken Loans Arena and delivered a speech of his life, delivered 401 speech as fiery as his candidacy. days into his improbable run for With dark imagery the White House, Mr. Trump and an almost angry sounded much like the man who tone, Mr. Trump por- had started it with an escalator trayed the United ride in the lobby of Trump States as a diminished Tower: He conjured up chaos and even humiliated and promised overnight solu- nation, and offered tions. himself as an all-pow- To an electorate that remains erful savior who could anxious about his demeanor, his resurrect the coun- honesty and his character, Mr. try’s standing in the Trump offered no acknowledg- eyes of both enemies and law-abiding ment, no rebuttal, no explana- Americans. tion. “Our convention occurs at a moment of It was a speech that might be crisis for our nation,” an ominous-sounding remembered, ultimately, as much Mr. Trump said, standing against a back- for what it lacked as for what it drop of American flags. “The attacks on our contained — and for the message police, and the terrorism in our cities, those absences seemed to con- threaten our very way of life. Any politician vey: He is content with the an- who does not grasp this danger is not fit to gry voters he has won, who lead our country.” thunderously cheered him on Mr. Trump nearly shouted the names of here, and indifferent about woo- states where police officers had been killed ing those he has not. recently, as the crowd erupted in applause, and returned repeatedly to the major theme For those grasping for new of the speech: “Law and order,” he said four signs of humility, generosity and times, each time drawing out the syllables. depth, Mr. Trump offered the Mr. Trump challenged Republican ortho- thinnest of reeds. doxy as he promised to end multilateral Inside the Quicken Loans trade deals and limit American intervention Arena, a thicket of American in global crises. He denounced “15 years of flags behind him, he portrayed wars in the Middle East” — a rebuke of his himself, over and over, as an party’s last president, George W. Bush — almost messianic figure prepared and pledged to help union members, coal to rescue the country from the DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES miners and other low-wage Americans who ills of urban crime, illegal immi- Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence took the stage with family members as the convention closed Thursday night. have historically supported Democrats. gration and global terrorism. “These are the forgotten men and women “I alone,” he said, “can fix it.” of our country,” said Mr. Trump, a billionaire But Mr. Trump made no real with a mixed record of job creation and lay- ELECTION 2016 case for his qualifications to lead offs. “People who work hard but no longer the world’s largest economy and Moneyed Class Finds Place in Current G.O.P. THE FAMILY have a voice — I am your voice.” strongest military. He is, he said, Mobbed by He even vowed “to do everything in my a very successful man who party’s quadrennial meeting ac- donors on contributing to a pro- fans, the Trump children centuated a more enduring Trump “super PAC.” power to protect our L.G.B.T.Q. citizens knows how to make it all better. By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE are emerging in Ohio as from the violence and oppression of a hate- maxim: Money always adapts to And on Tuesday night, as Re- Campaign speechwriters from CLEVELAND — In his unlikely celebrities in their own ful foreign ideology.’’ As the audience ap- power. publican delegates formally made both parties were stupefied. rise to the Republican nomination right. PAGE A10 plauded, Mr. Trump made a deviation from Mr. Trump their presidential “It’s a lost opportunity,” said Donald J. Trump attacked lobby- At a downtown barbecue joint, his prepared text, observing: “I have to say, POLICIES Matt Latimer, who wrote ists, disparaged big donors and lobbyists cheerfully passed out nominee, a few dozen lobbyists What the that as a Republican, it is so nice to hear you speeches for President George railed against the party’s estab- stickers reading “Make Lobbying and their clients instead sipped candidate’s unconven- cheering for what I just said.”’ W. Bush. He said he had ex- lishment. But on the shores of Great Again” as they schmoozed gin and munched on Brie puffs in tional approach to for- Facing a restive party on the final night of pected Mr. Trump to plumb his Lake Erie this week, beyond the on Monday with Republican an oak-paneled room at the Union eign policy would mean a convention that has been unusually turbu- personal life and career for the glare of television cameras, the ambassadors, lawmakers and ex- Club. They had come to witness a in practice. PAGE A11 lent and divided, Mr. Trump seemed to kind of anecdotes that would power of the permanent political ecutives. At a windowless bar more urgent presentation: Newt make headway in galvanizing and unifying turn him, in the eyes of his class seemed virtually undis- tucked behind the Ritz-Carlton Gingrich, a top Trump adviser and THE CLINTON TICKET at least those Republicans gathered in the doubters, from a cartoon into a turbed. hotel, whose rooms were set aside Beltway fixture, painting an up- One of Hillary Clinton’s hall. The nearly-full arena was rapt as Mr. flesh-and-blood human being. Though Mr. Trump promises to for the party’s most generous beat picture of the deals they vice-presidential Trump spoke, and when he began dis- “A little humanity and self- topple Washington’s “rigged sys- benefactors, allies of Mr. Trump could help sculpt on infrastruc- contenders may not cussing illegal immigration, a familiar Continued on Page A15 tem,” the opening rounds of his pitched a clutch of receptive party Continued on Page A13 thrill liberals. PAGE A10 Continued on Page A14 As Accusations Build, Murdoch Ushers Ailes Out at Fox News N.B.A. to Move All-Star Game POWERFUL TRANSFORMATION This article is by John Koblin, In Protest Over Bathroom Law Emily Steel and Jim Rutenberg. At Fox News, Roger Ailes ex- ploited the close connection of TV In the dark for days, Fox News and politics. Page B1. By SCOTT CACCIOLA and ALAN BLINDER staffers finally got word on Thurs- day about the future of their net- The National Basketball Asso- Charlotte, had been talking to work. mination of an unsettling 15-day ciation on Thursday dealt a blow state officials about changing the The news was delivered in per- stretch for the network that began to the economy and prestige of law but that time had run out be- son by Rupert Murdoch, the 85- on July 6, when Gretchen Carlson, North Carolina by pulling next cause of the long lead time needed year-old media mogul who started a former Fox anchor, filed a law- February’s All-Star Game from to stage the game. The N.B.A. said Fox News with Roger Ailes 20 suit accusing Mr. Ailes of sexual Charlotte to protest a state law it hoped the game could be played years ago. harassment. That led to an inter- that eliminated anti-discrimina- in Charlotte in 2019, with the clear It was an unexpected visit, and nal investigation by 21st Century tion protections for lesbian, gay, implication that the law would bisexual and transgender people. with stunned employees listening Fox. have to be changed before then. The move was among the most “While we recognize that the in Fox’s Midtown Manhattan It was a stunning fall for one of prominent consequences since N.B.A. cannot choose the law in headquarters, Mr. Murdoch an- the most powerful people in the the law, which also bars transgen- every city, state and country in nounced that Mr. Ailes was out as DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES media industry, who built Fox der people from using bathrooms which we do business, we do not chairman and chief executive.