Donald Trump promised to restore safety to America as he accepted the Republican Party's nomination in Cleveland.

The bombastic real-estate mogul said "the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th, 2017, safety will be restored," according to excerpts of his speech released by the campaign Thursday.

Trump is referring to the spate of violent attacks in the country over the last few years, from mass shootings to the terror attacks in San Bernadino and Orlando.

Trump also tied problems in the world to not only President Obama, but Hillary Clinton as former secretary of state.

This is not unusual. It's standard fare from Trump surrogates over the last few nights of the Republican National Convention.

Trump also bemoaned the attack at the Pulse nightclub last June in Orlando, and promised to prevent attacks against the LGBTQ community.

Trump is also promising to lower taxes, cut regulation and boost school choice.

If the last few nights were about crushing Hillary Clinton, Thursday night was about showing that the usually harsh Trump is a sweet guy.

People with close ties to Trump, like businessmen Peter Thiel and Tom Barrack, talked about Trump as a straight forward business man who cares about his workers.

Daughter Ivanka Trump called Trump "the people's nominee," in a speech with policy promises like wage equality and affordable child care, veering at times into Democratic ideology.   

Donald Trump's acceptance speech

 

 

A Trump convention bump?

When the balloons fall after Donald Trump's acceptance speech tonight, the pollsters will get to work.

They will be looking for the convention bump or bounce, a term for the jump in the polls candidates get following the party's convention.

A bounce can give a candidate momentum going into the summer campaign season. It can also go away if the candidate is not helpful.

The bump is on average around five to six points, according to polling groups like Gallup.

So far Hillary Clinton holds a slight lead over Trump -- slight enough that Trump's numbers could jump over Clinton in some polls coming out of the RNC. But then Clinton will get her turn in Philadelphia to potentially get that convention bump and come out on top in the polls.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.