No more equivocating: Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president, and voters can either get behind him or see Hillary Clinton elected commander in chief in November.

A last-ditch revolt by a handful of delegates was easily — if noisily — put down July 18, the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Two days later, former rival Ted Cruz's failure to endorse the party's nominee was met by a chorus of boos from the audience and declarations of dismay from GOP leaders, leaving no doubt of what's now expected of loyal Republicans.

"I certainly profoundly disagree with his not endorsing Donald Trump,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Breitbart News Daily. “It’s going to be a close election, and I think if we don’t beat Hillary Clinton, I don’t think Ted Cruz can play the game ‘I’m gonna run four years from now' after being a disloyal Republican."

Trump appears to have enjoyed a bump in the polls during the convention, as is expected when the nation's eyes are all on one candidate. He closed in to within 2.7 percentage points of Clinton in the latest RealClearPolitics polling average, 41.3 percent to her 44 percent. Clinton will do everything in her power to widen that gap when the Democrats meet for their convention July 25-28 in Philadelphia.