The Republican National Convention enters its second day – now with donald trump officially as his presidential candidate.
Trump energized the crowd on Monday night by entering the arena with a bandage on his right ear after being injured during an assassination attempt on Saturday. Expect more speakers on Tuesday to mention what they described as the former president’s strength and resilience following the shooting at his rally in Pennsylvania.
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“It’s amazing to be here now and I think we all know why. We could be facing a very different situation, but for the grace of God,” Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump told more than 200 Pennsylvania delegates and guests Tuesday morning in the ballroom. from a hotel in Waukesha, Wisconsin, west of Milwaukee. “God bless, Donald J. Trump.”
“Here we are. The show goes on,” she said.
Lara Trump was making her first public appearance at the Republican National Convention speaking to the Pennsylvania delegation — a nod to the assassination attempt on the former president on Saturday and to Pennsylvania’s central place on the battleground map.
“What a time to be a member of the Republican Party,” she said. “We will be the party through Donald J. Trump that saves the United States of America.”
The comedy rock duo Tenacious D – made of Black Jack and Kyle Gass – has canceled the rest of the tour following Gass’s comments about the attempted murder of donald trump on the weekend.
While on stage at a concert in Sydney on Sunday, Gass was presented with a birthday cake and asked by Black to “make a wish”. Gass responded, “Don’t miss Trump next time,” an apparent reference to the rally shootout the day before, he left the former president with an ear injury. Gass’ video was widely shared on social media.
“I was taken by surprise by what was said on Sunday’s show. I would never tolerate hate speech or encourage political violence in any form,” Black said on Tuesday. statement on Instagram. “After much reflection, I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour, and all future creative plans are on hold. I am grateful to the fans for their support and understanding.”
After Black’s statement, Gass apologized On Instagram.
“The demonstrations that occurred yesterday proceeded without any major problems,” Mayor Cavalier Johnson said during a Tuesday morning briefing.
Johnson said two arrests were made — one when someone tried to scale a fence in a restricted area and a second arrest when a protester was blocking traffic and did not move when officers repeatedly asked him to do so.
“No one was injured and there was no significant property damage reported as a result of these demonstrations,” Johnson said.
The first night of the Republican National Convention kept the official focus on the economy on Monday, even after Saturday shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania where former President Donald Trump was injured.
Speakers argued that Trump would fix inflation and bring back prosperity simply by returning to the White House as president. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin lamented, “Tonight, America, the land of opportunity, just doesn’t look that way anymore.”
But Trump released few hard numbers and no real policy language or legislative plans, and most of Monday’s speakers didn’t elaborate either. Instead, his campaign is betting that voters care more about attitude than political details. Trump says he wants tariffs on trading partners and no tax on tips. He would like to reduce the corporate tax rate a little. O Republican platform it also promises to “defeat” inflation and “rapidly lower all prices”, in addition to pumping more oil, natural gas and coal.
The platform would address illegal immigration in part with the “largest deportation program in American history.” And Trump would also abandon President Joe Biden’s policies to develop the electric vehicle and renewable energy market.
Democrats and several leading economists say the math shows that Trump’s ideas would cause an explosive bout of inflation, hit the middle class and – by prolonging his soon-to-expire tax cuts – add another $5 trillion to the national debt. .
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President Joe Biden will speak at the NAACP convention in Las Vegas today, aiming to show his administration’s support for Black voters, who are the pillar of the Democratic coalition, and his personal political support.
He will also participate in an interview with BET. Tomorrow, he will address UnidosUS, seeking to bolster his appeal to Latino voters, another crucial Democratic-leaning bloc.
Trump chose the USA Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio to be his running mate as he seeks to return to the White House. Here are some things to know about the 39-year-old Republican, now in his first term in the Senate:
1. Vance rose to prominence with his bestselling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” a book about his roots in rural Kentucky and Ohio factory worker.
2. Vance was a “never Trump” Republican in 2016, but by the time Vance met Trump in 2021, he had already changed his mind.
3. Vance and Trump have personal chemistry: The two talk on the phone regularly, and Trump praised Vance’s beard, saying he “looks like a young Abraham Lincoln.”
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Nikki Haley, Trump’s former primary rival, was a last-minute addition to the lineup.
Former United Nations ambassador and governor of South Carolina waited two months after quitting in March say I would vote for him. So last week she announced she would instruct her convention delegates to vote for Trump, but did not plan to attend the convention.
It wasn’t until Sunday — hours after the shooting — that her office changed its position and said she would speak.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is arguably responsible for the Republican Party’s greatest political achievements, particularly in installing conservative judges at all levels of the judiciary. But that didn’t matter much to the Trump-friendly crowd at the RNC, who greeted the Kentucky Republican with boos — a tangible rejection of someone demonized as an establishment Republican who didn’t sufficiently support the former president.
Shortly thereafter, JD Vance received a very different reception. The second-youngest U.S. senator — and the first millennial to appear on a major party ticket — received raucous applause when he entered the convention for the first time as Trump’s running mate.
The dueling moments offered a window into the changes that have swept the Republican Party under Trump — ending an era in which McConnell went from being one of his party’s most powerful leaders and incisive strategists to being booed at the convention by his own party’s activists.
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The Republican National Convention enters its second day – now with donald trump officially as his presidential candidate.
Trump energized the crowd on Monday night by entering the arena with a bandage on his right ear after being injured during an assassination attempt on Saturday. Expect more speakers on Tuesday to mention what they described as the former president’s strength and resilience following the shooting at his rally in Pennsylvania.
The Republican National Convention opened less than 48 hours after Trump was the target of a shocking assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. The shooting, which left Trump injured and one man dead, hung over the convention with speakers expressing gratitude for the former president’s survival and resolve to win back the White House in November.
Trump greeted supporters as he left the arena. He was being protected by a noticeably larger security contingent of U.S. Secret Service agents.
Just a week after the AFL-CIO reaffirmed its support for President Biden, another union leader came and spoke at the Republican National Convention.
Teamsters Union President Sean O’Brien said workers are being taken for granted and sold out to big banks, big tech companies and the corporate elite. O’Brien said the Teamsters are “beholden to no one or any party” and will work with a bipartisan coalition.
“I don’t mind being criticized,” O’Brien said in challenging Democrats’ long-standing organized support.
With a large white bandage on his right ear after the assassination attempt on him, President Trump entered a convention hall where delegates stood and applauded, many of them holding signs or their phones to take photos and videos.
He was announced by musician Lee Greenwood, who sang his main song, “God Bless the USA”.
“Is there any doubt about who will be the next president of the United States? Prayer works,” Greenwood said as the former president took the stage.
JD Vance said his 7-year-old son was making noise in the background when Trump called to offer him the vice presidential spot on the Republican ticket.
Vance knew Trump was calling with big news, but he didn’t know if it was good news or bad news for him, the first-term Ohio senator told Fox News host Sean Hannity in his first interview since Trump announced his pick.
He said Trump also asked to speak to his son.
“The guy got shot a few days ago and he takes the opportunity to talk to my seven-year-old son,” Vance said.
“It’s a moment I’ll never forget.”
He said he and Trump have been close since Trump supported him in his 2022 Senate race, which he said he would not have won without Trump’s support.
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