The first day of the Republican national convention in Milwaukee has now concluded.

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Delegates will return to the Fiserv Forum at 5pm CT tomorrow for the second day of the four-day event, which is a crucial moment on the road to the 5 November election.

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Here’s a look back at what happened today so far.

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  The Republican partyformally nominatedDonald Trump as their candidate for president, and the former president in the evening appeared at the convention, his first public outing since being wounded by a gunman on Saturday.

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  Trumpannounced that Ohio senator JD Vance would be his running mate. Not long after, Vance turned up on the floor of the convention, and the GOP made him their vice-presidential nominee by acclamation.

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  Joe Bidensaid Vance was “a clone of Trump on the issues”. ABC News reports that Kamala Harris tried to call Vance, but couldn’t reach him, and left a voicemail.

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  The president acknowledged that it was a “mistake” to say that he wanted to put a “bullseye” on Trump, in an interview with NBC News.

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  Robert F Kennedy Jr met with Donald Trump in Milwaukee, Politico reports, as Trump sought his endorsement. Kennedy, an independent presidential candidate, is polling at around 9% nationally, and received Secret Service protection today.

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  Donald Trump Jrtold the Guardian he advised his father to pick JD Vance because he thought the senator would fight for him.

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  Marjorie Taylor Greene, the rightwing congresswoman, said divine intervention kept Trump safe on Saturday.

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  The Biden campaigncharacterized Vance as an enabler of Trump.

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  Sean O’Brien, the president of the Teamsters, defended his controversial decision to address the convention, then said Trump was “one tough SOB” for surviving the assassination attempt.

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Sean O’Brien has shown his knack for bringing the crowd to its feet, drawing one of the loudest applauses of the night by saying that, after surviving an assassination attempt on Saturday, Donald Trump is “one tough SOB”.

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“President Trump had the backbone to open the doors to this Republican convention, and that’s unprecedented. No other nominee in the race would have invited the Teamsters into this arena,” O’Brien said.

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“You can have whatever opinion you want, but one thing is clear: President Trump is a candidate who is not afraid of hearing from new, loud and often critical voices, and I think we all can agree whether people like him or they don’t like him, in light of what happened to him on Saturday, he has proven to be one tough SOB.”

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And at that, the crowd went wild.

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By way of justifying his decision to address the Republican national convention, Teamster president Sean O’Brien said that the union was “not beholden” to any politician or party.

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“The American people aren’t stupid. They know the system is broken. We all know how Washington is run. Working people have no chance of winning this fight. That’s why I’m here today, because I refuse to keep doing the same things my predecessors did,” O’Brien said.

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“Today, the Teamsters are here to say we are not beholden to anyone or any party. We will create an agenda and work with a bipartisan coalition ready to accomplish something real for the American worker.”

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And in a remark that brought the convention to its feet, he said:

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And I don’t care about getting criticized, it’s an honor to be the first Teamster in our 121-year history to address the Republican national convention.

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Donald Trump is now walking into the VIP seating of the Republican national convention, pumping his fist in the air.

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Country singer Lee Greenwood is on stage, singing his hit God Bless the USA.

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The jumbotron at the Republican national convention is now showing video of Donald Trump, apparently backstage.

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His right ear is covered in a bandage, after it was hit by a bullet during the assassination attempt targeting him on Saturday. He motioned to the camera, as if signaling he could still hear the convention crowd through that ear, drawing cheers.

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Vice-presidential nominee JD Vance, who once described Donald Trump as “America’s Hitler”, blamed his past criticism of the former president on “the media’s lies and distortions”.

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Speaking to Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Vance said: “I bought into this idea that somehow he was going to be so different, a terrible threat to democracy. It was a joke.”

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As a reminder, Trump’s presidency ended with a violent attack on the US Capitol after a group of his supporters stormed the building in an effort to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

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Vance told Hannity: “Joe Biden is the one who is trying to undermine American law and order. President Trump did a really good job. And I actually think it’s a good thing, when you see somebody [and] you were wrong about them, you ought to admit the mistake and admit that you were wrong.”

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The world’s richest man Elon Musk will commit $45m per month to a new Super Pac intended to support Donald Trump’s campaign, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter.

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Musk announced his endorsement of Trump on Saturday, shortly after an assassin opened fire on the former president at his rally in Pennsylvania. Here’s more on the billionaire’s new commitment, from the Journal:

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Other backers of the group, called America PAC, include Palantir TechnologiesPLTR 2.14%increase; green up pointing triangle co-founder Joe Lonsdale, the Winklevoss twins, former U.S. ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft and her husband, Joe Craft, who is chief executive of coal producer Alliance Resource PartnersARLP -0.04%decrease; red down pointing triangle.

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Formed in June, America PAC is focused on registering voters and persuading constituents to vote early and request mail-in ballots in swing states, according to one of the people. The coalition assessed that the Democrats have historically had very robust “get out the vote” campaigns and took note of the amounts of money that the Biden administration has dedicated to so-called on the ground efforts in swing states. America PAC will try to counter that.

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Reprising an attack line from his days as a presidential candidate, Tim Scott said Democrats were making life worse for African Americans.

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“America, we deserve better … we deserve so much better. I was raised by a single mom in poverty. We had plastic spoons, not silver spoons, but she taught me to work hard, to take responsibility and reject victimhood. Thank God for my wonderful mama. I know, I know this is going to offend the liberal elites. Every time I say it, it offends them, but let me say it one more time, America is not a racist country,” said Scott, the lone Black Republican in the Senate.

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“But if you are looking for racism today, you find it in cities run by Democrats. Look on the south … side of Chicago, poor Black kids trapped in failing schools, thousands shot every single year, including one of my former interns, DaQuawn. But there’s good news. It’s conservative values that restores hope. It’s Republican policies that lifts people up.”

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In describing what happened at Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday, Tim Scott deployed language that any reader of the Chronicles of Narnia would recognize.

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“If you didn’t believe in miracles before Saturday, you better be believing right now. Thank God almighty that we live in a country that still believes in the king of kings and the lord of lords, the alpha and the omega,” he said.

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“Our God still saves, he still delivers, and he still sets free, because on Saturday, the devil came to Pennsylvania holding a rifle, but an American lion got back up on his feet, and he roared!”

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Tim Scott, the Republican senator who made a quixotic bid for the presidential nomination and is now a prominent Donald Trump surrogate, has taken the stage to big cheers.

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“Wow!” Scott boomed. “Hello Milwaukee! Are you ready for four more years of Donald Trump?”

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The RNC’s statistics on gas prices need a bit more context. According to data compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, average gas prices ranged from $1.773 per gallon to $2.962 per gallon over the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency.

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But prices only dipped below $2 per gallon during the earliest days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when demand for gas plummeted as Americans stayed at home to limit the spread of the virus.

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By the time Trump left office in January 2021, the average gas price stood at $2.379 per gallon. Today, the average gas price is $3.521 per gallon after reaching a record high of $5.016 per gallon in June 2022, according to AAA.

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I have heard from multiple people that Donald Trump will appear at the Republican national convention at about 8pm CT, but he will not make remarks.

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It would be the former president’s first public appearance since he was hit in the ear by a bullet while campaigning in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

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Contrary to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s insinuation otherwise, Joe Biden did not set Transgender Day of Visibility to coincide with Easter Sunday this year.

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Transgender Day of Visibility occurs on 31 March every year, and Biden has released annual proclamations recognizing the occasion since taking office in 2021.

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The date of Easter Sunday varies year by year and just happened to fall on 31 March this year. In addition to his proclamation about Transgender Day of Visibility, Biden, who is a devout Catholic, also released a statement in celebration of Easter on the same day.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia congresswoman known for her far-right rhetoric, is on the stage now.

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She began by reflecting on the assassination attempt targeting Donald Trump on Saturday.

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“Today is a celebration. The American spirit is alive and well, and we have once again, nominated for president, the founding father of the America First movement, Donald John Trump,” Greene said.

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“Unfortunately, this is also a somber moment for our nation. Two days ago, evil came for the man we admire and love so much. I thank God that his hand was on President Trump.”

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Several prominent Republican lawmakers, including rightwing icon Marjorie Taylor Greene and former presidential candidate Tim Scott, are expected to address the party’s convention this evening.

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So, too, is Sean O’Brien, president of the Teamsters, whose members have traditionally supported Democrats. His appearance at the convention is deeply controversial with some in the labor union.

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Here’s more on who we expect to hear from in the hours to come:

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Joe Biden a little earlier today directed the Secret Service to protect independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr.

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Donald Trump reportedly met with RFK Jr in person earlier today, while the independent rival to both Trump and Biden and these days a maverick member of the Kennedy political dynasty, has said he won’t drop out of the presidential race.

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RFK Jr has been asking for a long time for federal protection. Trump said earlier today that Kennedy should get it. This follows the assassination attempt on Trump over the weekend.

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On Monday, the Associated Press reported, Kennedy said in a statement:

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Thank you, President Biden, for extending me Secret Service protection.

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He also thanked his private security firm, Gavin de Becker & Associates, “for keeping me safe for the past 15 months of my presidential campaign”.

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Kennedy’s uncle, President John F Kennedy, and his father, Senator Robert F Kennedy, were both assassinated, in 1963 and 1968, respectively.

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Special counsel Jack Smith intends to appeal a judge’s dismissal of the classified documents case against Donald Trump.

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A spokesperson for Smith revealed the move in a statement today hours after US district judge Aileen Cannon threw out the case, the Associated Press reports.

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The judge sided with Trump’s lawyers, who said Smith’s appointment as special counsel violated the constitution.

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A successful appeal by prosecutors could result in the indictment being reinstated, though even if that there were to happen, it would be virtually impossible for a trial to take place before the November presidential election.

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Here’s my colleague Hugo Lowell’s report on the unexpected news this morning that Cannon had, after so many months of proceedings, decided to throw out the case. Read it here.

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And my colleague Ed Pilkington’s analysis highlighting the direct line of thinking from hard right-leaning supreme court justice Clarence Thomas to the Trump-appointed Cannon. Read it here.

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Joe Biden told NBC News in an interview airing Monday that it was a “mistake” to say he wanted to put a “bullseye” on Republican nominee Donald Trump, which the US president had said prior to the assassination attempt on the former president on Saturday.

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But Biden also argued in the sit-down with the TV network that rhetoric coming from his election opponent was more incendiary, the Associated Press reports.

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It was a mistake to use the word,’ Biden told NBC anchor Lester Holt in a clip released by the network.

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In an exclusive interview with Lester Holt, President Biden said it was a mistake to use the word “bullseye” while discussing former President Trump, but said to “focus on what [Trump is] doing”.pic.twitter.com/TufdyiZq8v

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He said he wanted the ‘focus’ to be on ‘what he’s saying’.

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Biden continued:

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How do you talk about the threat to democracy which is real, when a president says things like he says? Do you just not say anything because it may incite somebody?

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The president said he is not the one who engages in “that rhetoric”, referring to Trump’s past comments about a “bloodbath” if the Republican loses to Biden in November.

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The Republican national convention is now taking a break, after completing the first of two sessions it has planned today.

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The delegates will return at 5.45pm CT for what are expected to be more speeches by high-profile Republicans and party supporters.

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  The Republican partyformally nominatedDonald Trump as their candidate for president.

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  Trumpannounced that Ohio senator JD Vance would be his running mate. Not long after, Vance appeared on the floor of the convention, and the GOP made him their vice-presidential nominee by acclamation.

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  Joe Bidensaid Vance was “a clone of Trump on the issues”. ABC News reports that Kamala Harris tried to call Vance, but couldn’t reach him, and left a voicemail.

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  Robert F Kennedy Jr met with Donald Trump in Milwaukee, Politico reports, as the former president sought his endorsement. Kennedy, an independent presidential candidate, is polling at around 9% nationally.

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  Donald Trump Jrtold the Guardian he advised his father to pick JD Vance because he thought the senator would fight for him.

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  The Biden campaigncharacterized Vance as an enabler of Trump.

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As he heads for campaign events in Las Vegas, Joe Biden was asked for his thoughts on JD Vance, the Ohio senator who is Donald Trump’s running mate.

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“A clone of Trump on the issues,” Biden replied. “I don’t see any difference.”

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By a vote of acclamation at the Republican national convention, the GOP has formally nominated JD Vance to be Donald Trump’s running mate in the November election.

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JD Vance, the Ohio senator Donald Trump just chose as his running mate, has arrived on the floor of the Republican national convention.

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Donald Trump met today in Milwaukee with Robert F KennedyJr, and discussed the independent presidential candidate’s endorsement, Politico reports.

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If Kennedy were to drop out and endorse Trump, it could further scramble the race. Polls show Kennedy has about 9% support nationally.

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“Yes, Mr Kennedy met with President Trump today to discuss national unity, and he hopes to meet with leaders of the Democratic Party as well,” Kennedy campaign press secretary Stefanie Spear told Politico. “And no he is not dropping out of the race. He is the only pro-environment, pro-choice, anti-war candidate who beats Donald Trump in head-to-head polls.”

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After all of the state delegations had been heard from, Republican House speaker Mike Johnson took to the stage to announce that Donald Trump won all of the votes, and is formally the Republican party’s nominee for president.

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“The following candidate received the following votes: 2,387 votes for president Donald J Trump,” Johnson said.

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“Let’s make it official. Accordingly, the chair announces that president Donald J Trump, having received a majority of the votes entitled to be cast at the convention, has been selected as the Republican party nominee for president of the United States.”

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In a statement released following JD Vance’s announcement as Donald Trump’s running mate, Biden-Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon described the senator as an enabler for the former president.

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“Donald Trump picked JD Vance as his running mate because Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on January 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme Maga agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people,” she said.

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Here’s more:

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As Trump’s running mate, Vance will make it his mission to enact Trump’s Project 2025 agenda at the expense of American families. This is someone who supports banning abortion nationwide while criticizing exceptions for rape and incest survivors; railed against the Affordable Care Act , including its protections for millions with preexisting conditions; and has admitted he wouldn’t have certified the free and fair election in 2020.

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Billionaires and corporations are literally rooting for JD Vance: they know he and Trump will cut their taxes and send prices skyrocketing for everyone else.

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Donald Trump has received the votes necessary from delegates to the Republican national convention to officially become the party’s nominee for president in this year’s presidential election.

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Not all states have been called, but Trump has an insurmountable lead.

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Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, hailed Donald Trump’s choice of JD Vance as his running mate.

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“Senator JD Vance was born and raised in Appalachia, served our country as a US Marine, and is regarded as one of the most thoughtful Senators in Congress. He possesses a profound understanding of the anxieties of working families and has both the lived experience and the policy expertise to help President Trump deliver a government worthy of the people it is supposed to serve,” Johnson said in a statement.

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“From our economy, to the border, to our standing in the world, our nation is in turmoil under four years of President Biden. President Trump needs a vice president with innovative ideas and the ability to articulate them to every single American voter and Senator JD Vance fits that mold perfectly. It is time to unite our nation and we are eager to grow our House majority and get to work with this ticket to restore America’s greatness once again.”

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Donald Trump has announced that Ohio senator JD Vance will be his running mate.

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Here’s what the former president wrote, on Truth Social:

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After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio. J.D. honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School Graduate, where he was Editor of The Yale Law Journal, and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association. J.D.’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” became a Major Best Seller and Movie, as it championed the hardworking men and women of our Country. J.D. has had a very successful business career in Technology and Finance, and now, during the Campaign, will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond….

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Fox News reports that North Dakota governor Doug Burgum has been informed he will not be Donald Trump’s pick for vice-president:

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A source tells @steinhauserNH1 that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has received a call notifying the senator that he’s NOT Trump’s choice for running mate.

— Aishah Hasnie (@aishahhasnie) July 15, 2024

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Burgum was an unsuccessful challenger to Trump for the GOP nomination this year, before making amends with the former president.

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I am hearing from a Donald Trump official that the former president has decided on his running mate.

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He will announce his decision at 3.30pm CT.

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Chair Michael Whatley has gaveled in the Republican national convention, signaling its official start.

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He then held a moment of silence in remembrance of the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

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Marco Rubio has been told that he will not be Donald Trump’s pick for vice-president, Reuters reports.

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The Florida senator was among the challengers Trump faced in the GOP primaries ahead of the 2016 election, then became an ally during his presidency.

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Jill Biden, the first lady, and her predecessor, Melania Trump, spoke on Sunday afternoon following the attempted assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

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The first ladies’ phone call followed a phone call on Saturday night between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

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“Last night I spoke with Donald Trump,” said Biden at a White House press conference on Sunday. Biden noted the conversation was brief. “Jill and I are keeping him and his family in our prayers.”

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Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, has called Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of Donald Trump’s classified documents case “breathtakingly misguided” and called for the case to be resassigned.

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The judge’s ruling “flies in the face of long-accepted practice and repetitive judicial precedence,” Schumer said in a statement shared by Fox News’s Chad Pergram.

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It is wrong on the law and must be appealed immediately. This is further evidence that Judge Cannon cannot handle this case impartially and must be reassigned.

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Schumer: This breathtakingly misguided ruling flies in the face of long-accepted practice and repetitive judicial precedence. It is wrong on the law and must be appealed immediately. This is further evidence that Judge Cannon cannot handle this case impartially and must be…

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 15, 2024

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Donald Trump has told Fox News reporter Brett Baier that he will announce his pick for his vice-presidential running mate today.

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TRUMP tells @BretBaier he is making his VP announcement TODAY

— Aishah Hasnie (@aishahhasnie) July 15, 2024

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US district judge Aileen Cannon, in dismissing the classified documents criminal case against Donald Trump, ruled that the special counsel, Jack Smith, was unlawfully appointed to his role and did not have the authority to bring the case.

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Cannon, who was nominated by Trump, wrote in her ruling:

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The Clerk is directed to CLOSE this case. Any scheduled hearings are CANCELLED. Any pending motions are DENIED AS MOOT, and any pending deadlines are TERMINATED.

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The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s classified documents case has dismissed the case, citing the unlawful appointment of special counsel Jack Smith.

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BREAKING: JUDGE CANNON DISMISSES TRUMP CLASSIFIED DOCS CASE CITING UNLAWFUL APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITHhttps://t.co/2figBi2KmIpic.twitter.com/cz2t3x3sDj

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) July 15, 2024

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Video footage posted on social media shows the man who targeted Donald Trump in an assassination attempt on Saturday crawling on to the roof of a building from where he shot at the former president, as multiple onlookers frantically pointed him out to nearby police officers.

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The video on X, reported by New York Post, shows several people pointing at Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, as he climbed on to the roof of a manufacturing plant about 400 feet from where Trump was speaking at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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“Look they’re all pointing,” a person is heard saying in the video, as several people point and watch Crooks, who can be seen rolling on the roof and crawling forward on his hands and knees.

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“Yeah, someone’s up on the top of the roof. There he is right there,” the person says. Others are heard saying: “Right here, right on the roof.”

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One person is heard shouting “officer” and others say “he’s on the roof” while pointing.

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Trump can be heard giving his remarks in the background. During the video, police officers appeared largely unresponsive to the onlookers’ concerns.

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Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the Secret Service, has issued her first major statement since the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, in which she said the agency was increasing security for the former president and the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

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The statement reads:

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I would like to start by extending my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Corey Comperatore, who was killed during the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania, Saturday, as well as those who were injured during this senseless act of violence.

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Secret Service personnel on the ground moved quickly during the incident, with our counter sniper team neutralizing the shooter and our agents implementing protective measures to ensure the safety of former president Donald Trump.

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Since the shooting, I have been in constant contact with Secret Service personnel in Pennsylvania who worked to maintain the integrity of the crime scene until the FBI assumed its role as the lead investigating agency into the assassination attempt. I have also been coordinating with the protective detail for former President Trump and have briefed President Biden on the details of the incident.

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The Secret Service is working with all involved Federal, state and local agencies to understand what happened, how it happened, and how we can prevent an incident like this from ever taking place again. We understand the importance of the independent review announced by President Biden yesterday and will participate fully. We will also work with the appropriate Congressional committees on any oversight action.

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The incident in Pennsylvania has understandably led to questions about potential updates or changes to the security for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. The U.S. Secret Service, in conjunction with our Federal, state and local law enforcement and public safety partners, designs operational security plans for National Special Security Events (NSSE) to be dynamic in order to respond to a kinetic security environment and the most up-to-date intelligence from our partners.

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I am confident in the security plan our Secret Service RNC coordinator and our partners have put in place, which we have reviewed and strengthened in the wake of Saturday’s shooting. The security plans for National Special Security Events are designed to be flexible. As the conventions progress, and in accordance with the direction of the President, the Secret Service will continuously adapt our operations as necessary in order to ensure the highest level of safety and security for convention attendees, volunteers and the City of Milwaukee. In addition to the additional security enhancements we provided former President Trump’s detail in June, we have also implemented changes to his security detail since Saturday to ensure his continued protection for the convention and the remainder of the campaign.

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The Secret Service is tasked with the tremendous responsibility of protecting the current and former leaders of our democracy. It is a responsibility that I take incredibly seriously, and I am committed to fulfilling that mission.

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Donald Trump arrived yesterday in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, where he is due to accept his party’s formal nomination with a speech later this week after being the target of an attempted assassination at his campaign rally on Saturday.

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“The speech I was going to give on Thursday was going to be a humdinger,” the former president told the Washington Examiner in an interview published on Sunday evening.

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In his newly revised nomination acceptance speech, Trump said, he will call for a new effort at national unity, noting that people from different political views have called him. He said:

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This is a chance to bring the whole country, even the whole world, together. The speech will be a lot different, a lot different than it would’ve been two days ago.

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Republicans will gather today in downtown Milwaukee to Thursday, where they will officially annoint Trump as their presidential nominee. He is also expected to announce his vice-presidential pick, who will be expected to deliver a speech of their own on Wednesday night.

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Joe Biden will receive the official nomination from fellow Democrats for a second term in a virtual vote as planned in late July, ahead of the party’s national convention, despite calls for him to step aside and the shock of an assassination attempt on Biden’s likely opponent, Donald Trump.

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Reuters cited four people involved in the process, but said it remains unclear how the early nominating process will work.

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Reuters spoke to more than 20 of the 4,500 delegates who will be involved in the nomination. Eight told Reuters they either had not heard about what senior Democrats have described as a “virtual roll call” or they had not heard any details on it recently.

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The early nomination is needed to deal with an Ohio law that could have kept Biden’s name off ballots in the state if he wasn’t nominated by 7 August, prior to party’s convention in Chicago. The plan was put in place before Biden’s performance in the 27 June debate.

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Britain’s King Charles III is understood to have written privately to Donald Trump after the former US president survived an assassination attempt, Buckingham Palace has said.

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PA Media reports Charles’s message was in keeping with UK prime minister Keir Starmer’s conversation with Trump, in which he condemned the violence, expressed his condolences for the victims and their families, and wished the former president and those injured a quick recovery.

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The king’s message was delivered on Sunday via the UK embassy in Washington DC. Buckingham Palace said the contents of the correspondence would be kept private.

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The Kremlin said on Monday that Russian president Vladimir Putin had not contacted Donald Trump after the assassination attempt on the Republican US presidential candidate and had no plans to do so, Reuters reports.

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President Joe Biden has postponed a planned trip to Texas today, where he was to speak on the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the Lyndon B Johnson presidential library.

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An NBC News interview between Biden and anchor Lester Holt will now occur at the White House, instead of in Texas, as initially planned, Associated Press reports.

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Speaking in a telephone briefing, FBI special agent in charge Kevin Rojek gave the media this update, saying:

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At this time, the information that we have indicates that the shooter acted alone and that there are currently no public safety concerns. At present we have not identified an ideology associated with the subject, but I want to remind everyone that we’re still very early in this investigation.

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The FBI said they found a suspected explosive device in the suspects vehicle. Rojek said “We have seized the device, rendered it safe and we are also in the process of analyzing that further.”

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A later FBI update said suspicious devices had been found in the home of the suspect.

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Associated Press reports thast activists gathering in Milwaukee for the start of the Republican National Convention say the assassination attempt on Donald Trump won’t affect their longstanding plans to demonstrate outside the convention site this week.

n A diverse range of organizations and activists is expected outside the downtown Fiserv Forum, it says. The largest expected demonstration was slated to start Monday morning. The Coalition to March on the RNC, comprised largely of local groups, planned to protest for access to abortion rights, for immigrant rights, and against the war in Gaza among other issues.

n “The shooting has nothing to do with us,” said Omar Flores, a coalition spokesperson. “We’re going to continue with the march as we planned.”

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Organizers expect an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 attendees. Separately, the Philadelphia-based Poor People’s Army, which organizes for economic justice, plans an afternoon march.

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The US Secret Service has said security plans for the Republica National Convention, which have been in the works for more than a year, remain the same.

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If you wanted to plan ahead who and what to watch at this week’s Republican National Convention, then I have bad news: the party hasn’t released a full slate of speakers, and it’s possible we won’t know who is taking the stage each night until hours before.

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Donald Trump is expected to give his nomination acceptance speech Thursday. The day prior to that, his as-yet-unannounced pick for VP is due to give a speech in their own right on Wednesday.

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There are themes for each night’s speeches, from economics to immigration to crime to national security, and we know that several members of the Trump family and their associates are due to speak. The RNC will livestream proceedings across a number of online platforms, including YouTube.

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Welcome to our rolling coverage of US politics, which is dominated by the aftermath of the attempted assasination of former president and presumptive Republican nominee for this year’s election, Donald Trump. Here is the latest …

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  Trump gave an interview, his first since the shooting, to the conservative newspaper the Washington Examiner, saying that he has rewritten his RNC speech. “The speech I was going to give on Thursday was going to be a humdinger,” he said, and that it “would’ve been one of the most incredible speeches”. Its focus was Biden’s policies while in office, Trump said. “This is a chance to bring the whole country, even the whole world, together. The speech will be a lot different, a lot different than it would’ve been two days ago,” he said

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  Trump said that the reason he wasn’t killed was that he looked away from the crowd and to a screen with speech notes. “I rarely look away from the crowd. Had I not done that in that moment, well, we would not be talking today, would we?”. Trump arrived in Milwaukee on Sunday night for the Republican National Convention, which is expected to continue as scheduled

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  Two other rally attendees were also shot and survived. One man, Corey Comperatore, 50, died in the shooting, and has been hailed as a hero from trying to protect his daughters from the bullets

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  CNN and the ABC reported that Trump underwent a precautionary CT scan after he was grazed by a bullet at a rally on Saturday. The ABC cited unnamed sources who said the scan came back clear

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  FBI officials said on Sunday they were assessing the shooting as a possible domestic terrorism attack and assassination attempt. The suspected shooter is dead. He was named as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania

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  Early details shed little light on why Crooks might have wanted to carry out an attack on Trump or his supporters. Public records showed he was a registered Republican, though he had once donated $15 to a progressive PAC.

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  Early attempts to identify social media posts or other writings that would explain the shooting were not successful. FBI officials said on Sunday afternoon that they did not “currently have an identified motive” and that “at present, we have not identified an ideology associated with the subject”

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  Joe Biden gave an address to the nation, calling for unity and a rejection of political violence. His campaign was reportedly planning to tone down verbal attacks and television attack ads against Trump in the wake of the shooting, while still continuing to tout Biden’s political message about why voters should elect him in November

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Donald Trump pumped his fist repeatedly and waved at supporters as he leisurely walked down the stairs from the VIP seating and into a tunnel that led backstage.

Secret Service agents followed him closely.

Michael Whatley, the chair of the convention, has just gaveled the night’s session closed.

Before he did, he congratulated Donald Trump and JD Vance on their nominations.

“Senator Vance, congratulations,” he said. “President Trump, we are honored to have you here tonight and on behalf of the entire Republican party all across America, we are grateful for you to be our nominee for the 47th president of the United States of America.”

The crowd burst into applause, as Trump pumped his fist and clasped hands with Vance.

Sean O’Brien concluded his speech by declaring: “If the powers to be stop me from raising my voice on behalf of American workers, I will not have one single regret,” and will go back to being a truck driver.

As he walked off stage, the crowd resumed chanting: “We want Trump!”

Teamsters president Sean O’Brien started his speech off on a high note with praise for Donald Trump after he survived an assassination attempt on Saturday.

But the meat of his speech is a pitch to the GOP to reconsider its stance on unions, after the party decades spent promoting policies that make it more difficult for organized labor to thrive.

“You know, corporatists hate when working people join together to form unions. But for a century, major employers have waged a war against labor by forming corporate unions of their own. We need to call the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Toundtables what they are. They are unions for big business,” O’Brien said.

He then decried “elites”, a common target of attacks from Trump and his allies:

Remember, elites have no party. Elites have no nation. Their loyalty is to the balance sheet and the stock price at the expense of the American worker.

Trump is ‘one tough SOB’, Teamsters president says

Sean O’Brien has shown his knack for bringing the crowd to its feet, drawing one of the loudest applauses of the night by saying that, after surviving an assassination attempt on Saturday, Donald Trump is “one tough SOB”.

“President Trump had the backbone to open the doors to this Republican convention, and that’s unprecedented. No other nominee in the race would have invited the Teamsters into this arena,” O’Brien said.

“You can have whatever opinion you want, but one thing is clear: President Trump is a candidate who is not afraid of hearing from new, loud and often critical voices, and I think we all can agree whether people like him or they don’t like him, in light of what happened to him on Saturday, he has proven to be one tough SOB.”

And at that, the crowd went wild.

Teamsters president says union ‘not beholden to anyone, or any party’

By way of justifying his decision to address the Republican national convention, Teamster president Sean O’Brien said that the union was “not beholden” to any politician or party.

“The American people aren’t stupid. They know the system is broken. We all know how Washington is run. Working people have no chance of winning this fight. That’s why I’m here today, because I refuse to keep doing the same things my predecessors did,” O’Brien said.

“Today, the Teamsters are here to say we are not beholden to anyone or any party. We will create an agenda and work with a bipartisan coalition ready to accomplish something real for the American worker.”

And in a remark that brought the convention to its feet, he said:

And I don’t care about getting criticized, it’s an honor to be the first Teamster in our 121-year history to address the Republican national convention.

Teamsters president Sean O’Brien is now onstage.

Some senior members of his union are not happy that he is addressing the Republican convention. Here’s more about that:

Actor and model Amber Rose was up next, rebutting the assertion that Donald Trump is racist.

“The first person I knew who supported Donald Trump was my father. I was shocked. My entire family is racially diverse, and I believed the leftwing propaganda that Donald Trump was a racist. My father said: ‘No, he’s not Amber, what are you talking about?’ And when I insisted, he said, prove it. So to prove my father wrong, I did my research and looked into all things Donald Trump,” Rose said.

“People have to do their research. I watched all the rallies, and I started meeting so many of you, his red-hat wearing supporters. I realized Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care if you’re Black, white, gay or straight – it’s all love.”

Donald Trump listened to a story from western Michigan resident Mark Laws, who was talking about how inflation has affected him.

JD Vance is sitting to Trump’s left, and to his right is congressman Byron Donalds. Next to him is Tucker Carlson, the conservative former Fox News commentator. Carlson appears to be leaning over Donalds to talk to Trump.