Donald J. Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination Thursday after winning nearly 14 million primary votes, closing a turbulent convention with a 75-minute argument that the country faces mounting danger and requires an outsider to restore “law and order.” The address completed an improbable 13-month ascent from celebrity businessman to leader of a major political party.

“I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination,” Trump told delegates in Cleveland, according to the published transcript of his remarks. He promised to secure the border, renegotiate trade agreements, defeat the Islamic State, repeal the Affordable Care Act and appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court. He offered those pledges through a single organizing claim: political leaders have failed to protect Americans, and he alone can change the system.

A nomination secured, but unity unfinished

Trump won the nomination on Tuesday’s roll call with 1,725 delegates, comfortably above the 1,237 required. The formal vote resolved the arithmetic but not the divisions exposed during a primary campaign that displaced much of the Republican establishment. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, whose state hosted the convention, did not enter the arena. Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and the party’s previous two nominees also stayed away.

The sharpest rupture came Wednesday, when Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas urged Republicans to vote their conscience but declined to endorse Trump, drawing boos from delegates. Trump used Thursday’s speech to press for cohesion without dwelling on Cruz. C-SPAN’s complete final-night coverage captured a hall largely unified around the nominee after days of procedural disputes and competing messages.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, nominated for vice president by acclamation, gives the ticket a conventional conservative and an experienced liaison to Republican lawmakers. Yet the convention belonged unmistakably to Trump. Speakers repeatedly emphasized his outsider identity, his business record and his willingness to challenge both parties’ orthodoxies.

“Law and order” as the central argument

Trump opened with violence at home and abroad, citing killings of police officers, terrorist attacks and crimes committed by immigrants. He said homicides had increased in the 50 largest cities and portrayed unauthorized immigration as a threat to public safety and wages. The speech linked those concerns to a promise that safety would begin on the first day of a Trump administration.

The statistics supplied force but also invited scrutiny. Time’s contemporaneous fact-check found that several figures were grounded in published data but presented without national context. Violent crime remains well below levels of the early 1990s, even as some cities have reported recent increases. Similarly, the number of immigrants with criminal records under final removal orders does not mean all are freely roaming or currently dangerous.

The Washington Post’s examination reached a similar conclusion about claims on crime, refugees, trade and employment: many figures described real problems, but the speech often selected the most alarming measure or omitted countervailing evidence. Trump’s campaign released an annotated version, underscoring an effort to attach citations to an address built around a dark assessment of national conditions.

The broader strategy was clear. Trump sought to consolidate voters unsettled by attacks in Orlando, Nice and elsewhere and by recent shootings involving police and civilians. He presented security as the prerequisite for economic recovery and social stability, extending a theme that helped distinguish him in the Republican primaries.

Economic nationalism replaces party orthodoxy

On the economy, Trump promised large tax reductions, fewer regulations, expanded energy production and new infrastructure. But his attacks on trade agreements marked a break with decades of Republican policy. He blamed the North American Free Trade Agreement and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization for manufacturing losses, criticized Clinton’s support for trade deals and vowed penalties for companies that move jobs overseas.

The full prepared text published by Time shows how closely the economic argument tracked the security message: both portrayed Americans as victims of elites who negotiated poorly and placed foreign interests first. Trump repeated “America First” as the governing principle for trade and foreign policy.

That position may appeal in industrial states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan, but it creates friction with Republicans who favor open markets and alliances. Trump also reiterated skepticism about security commitments to allies that do not meet defense-spending obligations, another departure from party leaders who view those alliances as central to American power.

Promises and unresolved mechanisms

Trump pledged rapid action across nearly every major policy domain but supplied few legislative or fiscal details. He said tax cuts would create jobs, enforcement would stop illegal immigration, better negotiations would eliminate unfavorable trade arrangements and strengthened policing would reduce crime. Vox’s line-by-line review identified places where the causal claims ran beyond the evidence presented.

The speech also included departures from traditional Republican convention language. Trump explicitly promised to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens from terrorist violence, drawing applause. His daughter Ivanka introduced him with proposals on child care and equal pay that are not usually central to the party’s national platform. At the same time, Trump reaffirmed opposition to abortion and promised judges in the mold of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

ABC News published the full address, preserving the breadth of a program that combines tax and regulatory conservatism with trade protection, infrastructure spending and a more conditional view of alliances. The mixture reflects Trump’s campaign more than a standard Republican blueprint.

A general-election campaign begins

Trump now turns toward Hillary Clinton, whom Democrats are expected to nominate next week in Philadelphia. He accused the former secretary of state of corruption, failed judgment and responsibility for disorder abroad. Delegates repeatedly chanted “lock her up” during the convention, rhetoric that intensifies the personal character of a race already dominated by unfavorable views of both candidates.

Clinton’s campaign answered by arguing that Trump exaggerated crime and economic decline and offered authoritarian solutions rather than workable policies. President Obama said Friday that the convention’s portrait of America did not match broader trends in employment and violent crime. Those responses point to the general-election conflict: Trump will argue that official statistics conceal insecurity and institutional failure; Democrats will argue that he magnifies fear and lacks governing plans.

The convention gave Trump the nomination and a national stage, but it did not settle whether the Republican coalition has fully accepted the transformation he represents. The complete video of his acceptance shows a nominee confident that his personal mandate can substitute for party consensus. The next four months will test whether nearly 14 million primary votes were the foundation of a national majority or the high-water mark of an insurgency.