As it happened - pivotal Obama and Trump speeches

Summary

Donald Trump is facing a slew of claims of sexual misconduct from women
In Florida on Thursday, he fought back by strongly dismissing the accusations
First Lady Michelle Obama decried his actions as "intolerable"
Last week a video tape emerged in which Mr Trump boasted of groping women
A series of recent polls suggest a fall in his support to rival Hillary Clinton

Live Reporting

Courtney Subramanian and Max Matza

#NeverTrump backers defiant after floor fightpublished at 23:33 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
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Trump staff in small accident; Trump unharmedpublished at 23:16 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
Some of Donald Trump's campaign staff was involved in a small automobile accident in New York City on its way to the airport to head to the convention. Mr Trump was not harmed, according to officials.
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'White elevators' draw scorn at RNCpublished at 23:01 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
Elevators dubbed "white" at the RNC drew a scorn from attendees and reporters. Apparently, the convention center was going for a patriotic theme with red, white and blue elevators, but the labeling did not go over well. Reportedly, staffers are still working on getting all the signs removed.
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Pro-Trump delegate: 'People are going to be uncomfortable'published at 22:56 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
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TV comic re-purposes ex-candidate's campaign buspublished at 22:54 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
TV comic Samantha Bee is in Cleveland for the week and is working out of Herman Cain's old campaign bus. The former pizza restaurant CEO ran for presidential in 2012 on the much derided "9-9-9" tax plan.
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Day one shows cracks in the Republican foundationpublished at 22:48 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter
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It may have been a last gasp. It may have been a death rattle. But the #NeverTrump forces demonstrated on Monday afternoon that there was still some life left in them.
Thanks to a bit of procedural nimbleness, the anti-Trump delegates temporarily ground proceedings at the 2016 Republican convention to a halt.
They did it by gathering petitions from nine states to request a formal roll call vote on adopting the rules that govern the convention. Those rules included a provision requiring delegates to stand by their pledge to support the candidate selected by their state’s primary or caucus process. With that particular rule in effect, Mr Trump easily would have the necessary number of delegates to win the nomination on Tuesday.
That set off a furious round of lobbying from pro-Trump forces to convince three delegations to reverse themselves, dropping the petitioning states below the seven necessary for a recorded vote under convention rules.
While it’s clear that the eventual adoption of the pro-Trump rules was never really in doubt, a roll-call vote would have been an embarrassing show of dissent from the delegates – something Trump’s team wanted to avoid at all costs.
Despite their best efforts, however, cracks in the Republican foundation were quite visible at the start of a week in which the party is desperate to put its best foot forward.
BBC live on Facebook: Pro, Anti-Trump forces gather outside conventionpublished at 22:39 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
The BBC was live on Facebook outside of the convention center in Cleveland. There they met David Griffin, who wore a Make America Great Again hat and a Gun Owners for Trump pin.
"I think he will put America first, which is something we haven't had in a long time," he said. He complained that foreign students at his university have scholarships and he has to apply for student aid, which "isn't right".
He praised Mr Trump's idea for the wall and said it would keep America safer.
Another man outside of the convention, a former Bernie Sanders supporter, called Mr Trump a "xenophobic pseudo-fascist" with no political experience. "He's an egotistical maniac."
Watch the full video here, external.
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This pro-Trump supporter, David Griffin, is in support of the wall idea
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An Anti-Trump protester outside of the convention
What just happened? The floor fight explainedpublished at 22:37 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
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What is a roll call vote versus a voice vote?
State-by-state roll call votes are when all 2,472 of the convention delegates record their vote. Roll call votes are different from voice votes, where delegates cast their vote by shouting "aye" or "nay". The chair then selects which faction he or she thinks is the loudest group.
Why were Republican delegates fighting?
Anti-Trump delegates wanted to force a roll call vote on a rules package that binds delegates to vote for the candidate who won their state's primary or caucus.
The Never Trump group hoped to vote down the rules and replace them with a new set that would allow delegates to vote for a candidate other than Mr Trump.
What happened on the floor?
The group said they had a majority of signatures from at least 9 delegations as they erupted in protest on the floor. Many anti-Trump delegates shouted "roll call vote" while pro-Trumps responded with "USA" chants.
Congressman Steve Womack, the deputy permanent convention chair, declared the rules approved and walked off stage after the crowd screamed "ayes" and "nays".
Party officials then said three state delegations withdrew their support to have a roll call vote on the rules, which left the Never Trump delegates short of the signatures required to force the vote.
Multiple state delegations walked off the floor after the rules were passed twice by voice vote.
Anti-Trump contingent convinced RNC 'cheated'published at 21:40 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
Some Anti-Trump delegates think that the RNC cheated by not allowing the roll call vote to go on.
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Anti-Trump forces out of options after losing roll call votepublished at 21:38 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
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Chanting, chaos on RNC floorpublished at 21:28 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
Tensions are high on the RNC floor as boos and chants precede a delegate from Utah calling for a roll call vote on the rules. It has been announced that three states withdrew from the effort, so it will not go forward.
Iowa and Colorado delegations then walked off the floor.
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Anti-Trump forces disrupt convention for rules votepublished at 21:22 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
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Who's in and who's outpublished at 21:19 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort lashed out on Monday at many of the top Republicans who chose not to attend this year's convention, calling them "petulant".
Here's an overview of who's in and who's out in Cleveland:
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Not attending:
Former President George W Bush
Former President George H W Bush
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush*
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham*
Former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal*
2008 Republican presidential candidate and Arizona Senator John McCain
Ohio Governor John Kasich*
2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin
2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney
Florida Senator Marco Rubio* (will appear by video)
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Attending:
Retired Neurosurgeon Ben Carson*
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie*
Texas Senator Ted Cruz*
1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole
House Speaker Paul Ryan
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry*
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker*
*2016 Republican presidential candidate
Former Apprentice star named Trump director of African-American outreachpublished at 21:19 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
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Omarosa Manigault, who formerly starred on Donald Trump's reality show The Apprentice, revealed she has been tapped as the campaign's director of African-American outreach.
"It happened this week. But it's really an extension of the work that the coalition has already been doing," Omarosa told MSNBC. "And so I'm happy to take up that cause for Donald Trump."
Recent polls have shown Mr Trump receiving zero percent, external in support among African Americans in battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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Who women want (in the White House)published at 21:18 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
Despite a nation-wide campaign, the US election will come down to a handful of states and how undecided votes can be persuaded. So who is the kind of voter professional vote-getters are most concerned about? Unmarried white women in Pennsylvania.
The BBC's Katty Kay went to speak to these kinds of voters - and many other women - to understand what matters to them during this election in a five-part documentary. Watch the first part below.
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Who Women Want (in the White House): Part One
Not exactly Where's Waldopublished at 21:09 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
Police presence becoming more noticeable in Clevelandpublished at 20:57 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
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How Trump got to the conventionpublished at 20:49 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
The ascension of Donald Trump from reality TV star to Republican nominee defied all predictions and stunned the political world.
Many, many words have been written to explain Trump's rise. We've also been asking Trump's supporters - and eventual voters - why they like him as a candidate.
Here's a sample of what Trump voters told us time and time again.
Tune in for BBC's Facebook live streampublished at 20:44 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
BBC reporters on the ground in Clevelandpublished at 20:34 British Summer Time 18 July 2016
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