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Donald Trump will deliver the closing address of this year’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Thursday evening, having promised his remarks will be more moderate in tone after he called for cooler rhetoric in the wake of his surviving an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania on Saturday night.
Trump’s new running mate JD Vance closed out the third night of the RNC in Wisconsin on Wednesday with his first speech as the GOP’s vice presidential nominee.
Vance laid into President Joe Biden by declaring: “For half a century, he’s been a champion of every single policy initiative to make America weaker and poorer.”
Also addressing the convention on Wednesday was Donald Trump Jr and his daughter Kai Trump – the former president’s eldest grandchild, 17 – who received a warm welcome on stage at the Fiserv Forum and praised her grandfather as a “normal” senior who gives her “candy and soda when her parents aren’t looking”.
The program also included Peter Navarro – fresh out of prison that morning – plus Nancy Mace, Matt Gaetz, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Kellyanne Conway and hard-line Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
JD Vance a ‘hypocrite’ who ‘adopted the MAGA mindset wholesale’, says law school roommate
Ohio junior senator and vice-presidential nominee JD Vance is a “hypocrite” who “sold his soul” and will unquestioningly help advance twice-impeached former president Donald Trump’s hard-right agenda if the pair manage to take the White House in November.
That’s according to attorney Josh McLaurin, who spoke to The Independent about his former Yale Law School roommate.
Justin Rohrlich has the story.
ICYMI: Giuliani takes a fall and tumbles into chairs while walking RNC floor
Giuliani was walking up an aisle in the main convention hall when he suddenly fell sideways into a row of chairs before falling onto the floor, video on social media showed.
Katie Hawkinson reports.
Biden and Trump’s ages mocked by George W Bush — who is slightly younger than both…
“I’m younger than both of the candidates, and I’m too old,” Bush said in at least one speech, a witness told USA Today.
Amelia Neath reports.
Donald Trump to give keynote speech tonight
Donald Trump will give the keynote speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this evening to close out the event.
Trump is set to take the stage at 9 pm local time and is expected to speak for 90 minutes. The former president said the attempted assassination over the weekend inspired him to change his speech at the convention.
“I had all prepared an extremely tough speech, really good, all about the corrupt, horrible administration,” Trump told the New York Post earlier this week. “But I threw it away.”
“I want to try to unite our country,” he continued.
Don Jr wants ‘veto power’ on transition hiring if Trump gets into White House
“I don’t want to pick a single person for a position of power, all I want to do is block the guys that would be a disaster,” he told the outlet.
Gustaf Kilander reports.
Trump losing to younger Democrat in swing states, first major poll since assassination attempt shows
In Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin Trump is leading by three points, in Georgia by five, in Pennsylvania by six, in North Carolina by nine and in Arizona by 10.
The numbers are a bad sign for Biden who is already facing doubts about his ability to campaign and win the November election. Members of his own party have asked him to step aside and make room for a different, younger, candidate.
And the poll from Emerson supports that idea.
Ariana Baio and Alicja Hagopian look at the numbers.
2024 RNC lookbook: Ear bandages
No, really.
On Tuesday, several convention delegates were seen sporting ear bandages in a nod to the former president’s current look after he was struck in the right ear by a bullet in the attack.
One Republican delegate even went as far as to describe the ear bandage as “the newest fashion trend.”
Rachel Sharp has the story.
Who could be Kamala Harris’s running mate if Joe Biden drops out?
Eric Garcia looks at the possible candidates.
Stephen Colbert wades into ‘biggest danger of making’ JD Vance Trump’s VP pick
The term “big tent” has long been used to describe political parties that encompass a variety of similar ideological views and policy priorities. Stephen Colbert, host of the Late Show, thinks Vance and the Republicans may have another use for it.
Graig Graziosi has the story.
Tucker Carlson spotted cozying up to Fox News at RNC — is all forgiven?
Carlson apparently accompanied his friend, Donald Trump Jr, to Fox News’s green room and studio where Trump Jr was set to speak with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
A witness to the account said Carlson was warmly greeted by his former colleagues like Hannity, Jesse Watters, and Jeanine Pirro.
Ariana Baio has the story.
Source: independent.co.uk
