The Republican National Convention – normally an opportunity for party unity – will feature an increasingly radicalized and Trump-centric party, expelling the former president’s disloyal opponents.
The Milwaukee, Wisconsin event, in which donald trump will formally receive his third nomination for president, will begin on Sunday, days after reports that the party’s official platform would give states the right to promote fetal personhood by allowing more widespread abortion processes. And the guest list is a who’s who of MAGA elite and aspiring elite.
Despite initially not having time to speak, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will deliver remarks to RNC attendees following a time change.
“We’ve been told for some time that we had room to speak and we’ve never been told no,” said a source close to DeSantis. counted NBC News, quelling speculation following the former candidate’s notable absence from a previously published to schedule.
DeSantis was among the former president’s numerous primary challengers, but he was more effective than others in mending his relationship with Trump, whose age, numerous criminal cases and role in the Jan. 6 riots gave him a more serious primary challenge than your opponent. , Joe Biden
Absent from the convention will be former South Carolina governor and former presidential candidate Nikki Haley, whose past criticism of Trump as dangerous and chaotic did not stop her from freeing her delegates to vote for him.
The former president — who has already reprimanded the donors and converted voters who previously supported Haley — isn’t quite ready to welcome back his former UN ambassador, it seems.
“She’s OK with it,” Haley spokesperson Chaney Denton counted Politics of contempt. “Trump deserves the convention he wants. She made it clear that she is voting for him and wishes him the best.”
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On the official agenda are political forums from the Heritage Foundation, the group behind the far-reaching Project 2025, despite Trump’s decision unfounded claims that he had no affiliation with the 922-page manifesto that calls for purges of government officials, a national ban on pornography and other far-right political goals.
Delegates will be able to participate in a political symposium organized by the think tank – whose leader promised violence if the left backed down on its “revolution” – and learn about the group’s proposal to overthrow the federal government.
By group websitethe event will outline the foundation’s “plan to address the moral and fundamental challenges facing America at this moment in history,” paralleling the language used in the preface to Project 2025’s manifesto.
But the Heritage Foundation is not the only far-right organization that the party will defend at its main official event.
Moms for Liberty – a group that promotes fervent anti-transgender rhetoric and anti-racial theory criticism, has been named an extremist group by the civil rights watchdog Southern Poverty Law Center and has been caught quoting Adolf Hitler – will host his own panel on Tuesday.
Another likely participant, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two protesters at a protest against police violence, mirroring a 2020 RNC guest place of a St. Louis couple who brandished guns at Black Lives Matter protesters.
The convention is also expected to include speeches and appearances from reality television personality Amber Rose, Ultimate Fighting Championship executive Dana White and other C-listers.
Despite the cacophony of far-right voices, Milwaukee businesspeople noted the convention’s striking lack of events and economic impact compared to previous GOP gatherings.
