The Candidate: Donald Trump was officially voted the presidential candidate of the Republican Party last night, but only after 721 delegates cast ballots for people other than Trump, accenting a deep split. It’s the biggest party rift since 1976 when the Republicans had a contested convention.

At the moment of Trump’s triumph, many seats in the convention center were empty and some delegates stayed seated during the celebration.

Nevertheless the candidate’s son, Donald Trump, Jr., declared from the podium, “It’s not a campaign anymore, it’s a movement.”

Trump’s children talked about what a great father he is and how nothing is impossible for him. New Jersey Gov. Christ Christie gave a speech in which he played Hillary Clinton’s prosecutor, rousing the crowd to chant, “Lock her up, lock her up!”

The Melania Problem: The second day of the Republican convention was overshadowed by the first. The critics were out after Mrs. Trump for delivering an opening night partly cribbed from a Michelle Obama speech in 2008. It made Melania’s moment a disaster.

According to the campaign, Mrs. Trump was delivered a professionally written speech weeks ago and then proceeded to tinker with it without advice. The speechwriters were reported to have barely recognized the speech she delivered Monday night.

The Trumpies quickly defended the matter as insignificant. Chris Christie said, “Ninety-three percent of the speech is completely different,” as if he could have passed law school with an explanation like that.

Politi-Salad: It may be Donald Trump’s week for glory, but the NY Times statistical crunchers say, based on polling, that Hillary Clinton has a 76 percent chance of being elected president. They say her chances of losing are about the same as an NBA player missing a free throw — and they do miss.

Fox Hunt: NY Magazine reports that Rupert Murdoch and family are moving quickly to get rid of Fox New boss Roger Ailes as his sexual harassment scandal grows. Ailes is possibly the most powerful executive in television news.

After former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit, several other women went public with accusations. But the fatal blow could come from the star Megyn Kelly, who hasn’t said a public word in defense of the man who made her the face of the network he created. The magazine reports that Kelly has given internal investigators a detailed account of Ailes harassing her 10 years ago when she was a Fox reporter.

The Mouse Hole: Following a disappointing 2010 Winter Olympics, Russians sports bosses hatched an elaborate plan to juice their athletes and fake their doping tests for the 2014 games in Sochi, Russia, according to a new investigative report. Vials of the athletes’ tainted urine were passed through a “mouse hole” in the wall of the Sochi test lab and swapped for good clean stuff, the report says.

The Russians ended up winning 33 medals, more than double their total in Vancouver. The world anti-doping agency says the violations were so egregious that all Russian athletes should be banned from the games in Rio de Janeiro this summer.

The Obit Page: Writer-Director Garry Marshall who created the hit television series Happy Days” and “Laverne & Shirley” has died at age 81. Marshall originally was a journalist who graduated to writing jokes before making it in television and movies. He was the brother of Actress-Director Penny Marshall.

Twitter Hate: Comic Leslie Jones, a regular on Saturday Night Live and a star in the remake of “Ghostbusters,” has quit her Twitter account after receiving a torrent of racist and sexist hate mail — people sent her pornographic images. Jones, who is black, has even been compared to a gorilla by her haters. Sadly, Jones is incredibly funny and charming. She wrote on Twitter, “I’m tryin to figure out what human means. I’m out.”