At Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Anaheim, California, it apparently was about to start without the U.S. National Anthem being sung due to time constraints.
“I got here, and they all said, ‘We have a great crowd. We don’t have time for the National Anthem,'” saying it was “because of the television cameras.” Trump added. “I said, ‘Yes we do—we have time for the National Anthem, right?'”
“Guess what, we’re gonna do the National Anthem, OK,” Trump told the crowd.
He then introduced a woman, identified as Sherry Wilkins, who was slated to perform the National Anthem but was originally cut due to a time restriction.
Trump then thanked Wilkins and said she had a “great voice.”
Thank you Anaheim, California!#Trump2016 pic.twitter.com/AEShamhNVS
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2016
On Thursday, Trump clinched the Republican nomination, according to a delegate count by The Associated Press.
The AP reported that Trump got 1,238 delegates, putting him over the 1,237 needed to win the nomination.
He’ll most likely add more delegates to his count before the GOP convention in Cleveland, giving him an easy victory.
Trump also appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” this week, saying that Democratic nominee Bernie Sanders had passed along an invitation to Trump to debate, which Trump accepted.
“If I debated him we would have such high ratings and I think we should take that money and give it to some worthy charity,” Trump said on the program. “If we paid a nice sum toward a charity, I would love to do that.”
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, had previously declined an invitation to debate Sanders.
Sanders faces a large delegate deficit against Clinton.
“Game on,” Sanders said in a post on Twitter, as a debate with Trump would likely provide a boost in publicity ahead of the California primary.
“I look forward to debating Donald Trump in California before the June 7 primary.”