New Jersey’s 50 votes on Tuesday afternoon pushed Mitt Romney over the 1,144 delegates he needed to secure the Republican nomination for president. The moment was anticlimactic at a convention that was delayed a day because of weather concerns, but Romney officially became the party’s standard-bearer at 5:40 p.m. in the Tampa Bay Times Forum.

New Jersey was scheduled to have another signature event later Tuesday, when its governor, Chris Christie, ascends the podium to deliver the keynote address.