The Republican Party on Tuesday voted to nominate Mitt Romney as its candidate for president in 2012.
Now all Romney has to do is accept.
In a formal but anticlimactic roll call of states, GOP delegates to the Republican National Convention ratified the results of the primary process and tapped the former Massachusetts governor as its standard-bearer against President Obama this fall.
Romney needed 1,144 delegates for the nomination. New Jersey put him over the top.
His nomination won�t become official until he delivers his acceptance speech on Thursday, campaign officials said. At that point, he will legally be able to spend money raised for the general election campaign.