The Republican National Convention concludes tonight — Thursday, July 21, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio, with Donald Trump slated to accept the GOP nomination for president with a speech that will run in primetime — on the East Coast, anyway.
Speeches on this final night of the GOP convention are slated to begin at 4:20 p.m. Pacific time (7:20 p.m. Eastern), and Trump’s speech should end by 8 p.m. Pacific time (11 p.m. Eastern).
The theme of the final night of the Republican confab is “Make America One Again.”
Donald Trump is slated to be introduced by his daughter Ivanka. All the rest of Trump’s children — with the exception of 10-year-old Barron Trump, his son with current wife Melania Trump — have already spoken during previous nights of the convention.
Speakers and others appearing are not given exact times but will take the stage in this order:
• Reince Preibus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, will call the convention to order
• The singer Heavenly Joy will entertain
• VFW Post No. 6846 of Cleveland, Ohio, will present the colors
• Delegates will recite the Pledge of Allegiance
• Ayla Brown will sing the National Anthem
• The Rev. Dr. Steve Bailey, pastor of the New Philadelphia First United Methodist Church, will give the invocation
• Fran Tarkenton, former NFL quarterback
• Brock Mealer of Wauseon, Ohio, motivational speaker
• “We Win Because,” a video, will be shown
• U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee
• Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma
• Dr. Lisa Shin of Korean Americans for Trump
• “Where You Lead,” a video, will be shown
• “Built to Win,” a video, will be shown
• Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University and son of the late Rev. Jerry Falwell
• Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, co-founder of software company Palantir Technologies, current board member of Facebook, hedge fund manager
• Tom Barrack, CEO of L.A.-based private-equity real-estate investment firm Colony Capital
• Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump, executive vice president of development and acquisitions at the Trump Organization, founder of the Ivanka Trump Collection, a line of fashions and jewelry
• Donald Trump is slated to accept his party’s nomination for president
• The Rev. Roger W. Gries, auxiliary bishop emeritus, will deliver the benediction
Coverage of the convention can be seen the following channels and networks:
• C-SPAN
• CNN
• MSNBC
• Fox News
• ABC, NBC and CBS will cover the convention live, exact start times on the West Coast are hard to determine, but you can bet all of the networks will air the speeches of Ivanka and Donald Trump.
• CBS is offering full coverage on its streaming network CBSN at http://www.cbsnews.com/live with that same stream carried on http://twitter.com.
• Roku devices are among those that offer CBSN with no additional charge.
ABC News is offering live coverage on its web site.
• PBS and NPR are joining forces for nightly coverage of the political conventions beginning at 5 p.m. Pacific time. Stations in the Los Angeles area include KOCE-TV Channel 50, KPCC-FM (89.3) and KCRW-FM (89.9). Follow the PBS live blog for more information. PBS begins its coverage at 5 p.m. Pacific time, and the L.A.-area NPR stations kick off their coverage at 6 p.m.
• YouTube, where the GOP is live-streaming the convention tonight at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_lpyG-ddec (or search YouTube for Republican National Convention live stream)