Trump threatens ‘largest deportation’ drive in US history after saying God saved him in shooting – live

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Former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accepts his party’s nomination on the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 18, 2024. Days after he survived an assassination attempt Trump won formal nomination as the Republican presidential candidate and picked Ohio US Senator J.D. Vance for running mate. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)”,”origin”:”https://www.theguardian.com”,”stickyVideos”:true,”switches”:{“lightbox”:true,”prebidAppnexusUkRow”:true,”externalVideoEmbeds”:true,”abSignInGateMainVariant”:true,”commercialMetrics”:true,”prebidTrustx”:true,”scAdFreeBanner”:false,”adaptiveSite”:true,”prebidPermutiveAudience”:true,”compareVariantDecision”:false,”enableSentryReporting”:true,”lazyLoadContainers”:true,”ampArticleSwitch”:true,”remarketing”:true,”articleEndSlot”:true,”keyEventsCarousel”:true,”abStickyLiveBlogAskTest”:true,”updateLogoAdPartner”:true,”registerWithPhone”:false,”darkModeWeb”:true,”targeting”:true,”remoteHeader”:true,”slotBodyEnd”:true,”prebidImproveDigitalSkins”:true,”ampPrebidOzone”:true,”extendedMostPopularFronts”:true,”emailInlineInFooter”:true,”showNewPrivacyWordingOnEmailSignupEmbeds”:true,”prebidAnalytics”:true,”extendedMostPopular”:true,”ampContentAbTesting”:false,”prebidCriteo”:true,”okta”:true,”imrWorldwide”:true,”acast”:true,”automaticFilters”:true,”twitterUwt”:true,”updatedHeaderDesign”:true,”prebidAppnexusInvcode”:true,”ampPrebidPubmatic”:true,”a9HeaderBidding”:true,”prebidAppnexus”:true,”useSourcepointPropertyId”:true,”enableDiscussionSwitch”:true,”prebidXaxis”:true,”stickyVideos”:true,”interactiveFullHeaderSwitch”:true,”discussionAllPageSize”:true,”prebidUserSync”:true,”audioOnwardJourneySwitch”:true,”brazeTaylorReport”:false,”mastheadWithHighlights”:false,”euro2024Header”:true,”callouts”:true,”sentinelLogger”:true,”geoMostPopular”:true,”weAreHiring”:false,”relatedContent”:true,”thirdPartyEmbedTracking”:true,”prebidOzone”:true,”ampLiveblogSwitch”:true,”ampAmazon”:true,”prebidAdYouLike”:true,”mostViewedFronts”:true,”optOutAdvertising”:true,”abSignInGateMainControl”:true,”googleSearch”:true,”brazeSwitch”:true,”prebidKargo”:true,”consentManagement”:true,”personaliseSignInGateAfterCheckout”:true,”prebidSonobi”:true,”idProfileNavigation”:true,”confiantAdVerification”:true,”discussionAllowAnonymousRecommendsSwitch”:false,”absoluteServerTimes”:false,”permutive”:true,”comscore”:true,”ampPrebidCriteo”:true,”tagLinkDesign”:false,”abMpuWhenNoEpic”:false,”newsletterOnwards”:false,”youtubeIma”:true,”webFonts”:true,”liveBlogTopSponsorship”:true,”prebidImproveDigital”:true,”abAdBlockAsk”:false,”ophan”:true,”crosswordSvgThumbnails”:true,”prebidTriplelift”:true,”weather”:true,”prebidPubmatic”:true,”serverShareCounts”:false,”autoRefresh”:true,”enhanceTweets”:true,”prebidIndexExchange”:true,”prebidOpenx”:true,”prebidHeaderBidding”:true,”idCookieRefresh”:true,”discussionPageSize”:true,”smartAppBanner”:false,”historyTags”:true,”brazeContentCards”:true,”surveys”:true,”remoteBanner”:true,”emailSignupRecaptcha”:true,”prebidSmart”:true,”shouldLoadGoogletag”:true,”inizio”:true}}”>

Trump’s convention speech: calls for unity then a pivot to familiar attacks – video

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Trump promises ‘the largest deportation operation in the history of our country’

Trump is now on his familiar, hardline immigration rhetoric, noting that the GOP platform proposes “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country”.

Earlier, he had hypothesized that crime is dropping in Central American countries like El Salvador because “they’re sending their murders to the United States of America”.

He noted that his deportations would be “even larger than that of president Dwight D Eisenhower from many years ago. You know, he was a moderate but he believed very strongly in borders. He had the largest deportation operation we’ve ever had.”

Here’s more about Trump’s deportation plans:

If you’re just tuning in, here are the key takeaways from Trump’s RNC speech.

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Trump talked about his assassination attempt for the first, and he said, final time. Like many his supporters, Trump said he believed he had been protected by God last weekend, but he also emphasized how moved he had been by the behavior of his supporters when he was shot. When faced with a hail of bullets, he said, most crowds would have panicked and tried to flee, but his did not. “For the rest of my life,” Trump said, “I will be grateful for the love shown by that giant audience of patriots that stood bravely on the fateful evening in Pennsylvania.”

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Trump may be ‘changed’ after the assassination attempt, but he didn’t sound that changed. In the early minutes of his speech, Trump delivered some of the “unity” rhetoric that he told journalists he had planned. “The discord and division in our society must be healed,” Trump said. “I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America.” But soon after the somber beginning to his “unity” speech, Trump turned cheerful and chatty, first praising his friends, and then, soon enough, railing in a familiar way against “crazy Nancy Pelosi”, calling Biden one of America’s worst presidents, and then, to cheers, referring to Covid once again as the “China virus”.

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The Republican convention is a mirror world: ‘I am the one saving democracy,’ Trump says. Republican politicians kept reciting the names of women who have been raped or sexually assaulted by immigrants, while blaming the Democratic party’s immigration policies for putting them at risk. They didn’t talk about Trump being found liable of sexual abuse in a civil trial brought by the magazine writer E Jean Carroll, or the allegations of sexual misconduct he has faced from more than two dozen women. Biden and Harris were called criminals, rather than the candidate who has been convicted on 34 felony charges.

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Trump again pledges to carry out the largest deportation in US history. Before Trump spoke, other Republican politicians devoted large swathes of time during their convention to demonizing undocumented migrants, blaming them for a host of social ills, and advocating not just for a border wall but also “Mass deportations now.”

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Trump promises ‘two things on day one’ … ‘Close our borders’ and ‘drill, baby, drill!”. Trump also joined other Republicans throughout the week in touting the GOP as the party of fossil fuel, as Republicans repeatedly chanted: “Drill, baby, drill!” Climate change experts and activists have said that both Trump and his vice presidential pick, JD Vance, are likely to pursue a “methodical” climate crisis denial presidency that would include increasing production of fossil fuel, ignoring mainstream climate science and undermining or overturning rules to reduce emissions.

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California House Representative Jim Costa has also called on Biden to step aside, the Hill reports.

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“I am proud of the work we have done to pass monumental legislation that is leading to the first real investments in our communities in decades,” he said in a statement late on Thursday, “But for the good of the country, I think it is time for the President to pass the torch to the next generation to carry on the legacy he started.”

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Senator Jon Tester, who faces a challenging reelection battle in Montana this year, on Thursday became the second senator to publicly call on Biden to drop out.

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“I have worked with President Biden when it has made Montana stronger, and I’ve never been afraid to stand up to him when he is wrong,” Tester said in a statement.

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“And while I appreciate his commitment to public service and our country, I believe President Biden should not seek re-election to another term,” he added.

n Meanwhile Democratic US Senator John Hickenlooper told Reuters Biden has, “done what’s best for America … I think he’ll keep doing so,” adding, “He’s working towards that.” Hickenlooper declined to say whether he believed Biden should step aside as a candidate.

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DNC Chair Jaime Harrison has issued his take on the last night of the RNC, saying that, “In Trump’s Republican Party, there’s only space for unquestioning loyalists who will put him above our democracy, above our freedoms, and above working families”.

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He said the vision endorsed by speakers over the course of the last four days was “far-right and dangerous” and repeated a claim –which as far as I can tell is wording that comes from the Daily Beast’s Andy Levy – that Trump and Vance are “the most extreme running mates in modern American history”:

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“This week, convicted felon Donald Trump reminded the American people why they voted him out of office four years ago – because he doesn’t care about working families, he only cares about himself. In Trump’s Republican Party, there’s only space for unquestioning loyalists who will put him above our democracy, above our freedoms, and above working families. That’s why Trump chose JD Vance to be his running mate, and it’s why Trump’s former vice president – who he tried to get to overturn the election – was nowhere to be found this week in Milwaukee.

n “Over the past four days, we’ve seen speakers endorse a far-right, dangerous vision that would see Americans’ basic liberties stripped away and replace the rule of law with the rule of Trump. No amount of desperate spin can change how unpopular and out of touch their disastrous plans are for the American people.

n “Trump and Vance are running on the dangerous Project 2025 agenda to put tax cuts for billionaires above lowering costs for working people, outlaw abortion and threaten other basic rights, and put our democracy at risk. The more voters learn about the Trump-Vance ticket – the most extreme running mates in modern American history – the more fired up they are to reelect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris this November.”

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The Biden-Harris campaign has released a statement responding to Trump’s speech, in which it starts by saying Trump “rambled on for well over an hour”.

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Trump also “failed to mention Project 2025 even once”, and lists several of the ideas reportedly included in Project 2025, the Conservative guide for a second term. He also did not mention overturning Roe v Wade, the statement says.

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Here is our explainer on Project 2025. The document outlining the plan in 900 pages “showcases a federal government that cracks down intensely on immigration, vanquishes LGBTQ+ and abortion rights, diminishes environmental protections, overhauls financial policy and takes aggressive action against China.”

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Biden is “running for an America where we defend democracy, not diminish it”, the Biden-Harris statement says.

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Here is the full statement:

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Tonight, Donald Trump rambled on for well over an hour and failed to mention Project 2025 even once. He failed to mention how he had inflicted pain and cruelty on the women of America by overturning Roe v Wade. He failed to mention his plan to take over the civil service and to pardon the January 6th insurrectionists. He sought to find problems with America, not to provide solutions. But after all, it was Donald Trump who destroyed our economy, ripped away rights, and failed middle class families. Now he pursues the presidency with an even more extreme vision for where he wants to take this country. Trump’s Project 2025 agenda is the single biggest attack on our personal freedoms and way of life ever proposed in modern American history.

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President Biden is running on a different vision. He’s running for an America where we defend democracy, not diminish it. Where we restore our rights and protect our freedoms, not take them away. One where we create opportunities for everyone, while making the super wealthy finally pay their fair share. That is the future President Biden believes in and is the future that millions of our fellow Americans believe in too. The stakes have never been higher. The choice has never been more clear. President Biden is more determined than ever to defeat Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda in November.”

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In Trump’s first interview after the attempted assassination, he claimed that his life has been saved by a screen he was looking at (he has also claimed that he was saved by God). He never looked at a screen, he told the Conservative news outlet the Washington Examiner, because always kept his focus on the audience. But in this case he was talking about some data displayed on the screen – in a chart that made another appearance tonight.

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He repeated that claim tonight as he stood in front of a projection of the white house with the chart in question blown up and displayed on several screens behind him.

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The chart was shown to Trump by Republican Senator Ron Johnson, from Wisconsin.

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The chart claims to show a dramatic dip in migration during Trump’s presidency.

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Poynter’s PolitiFact has fact checked the chart. What it actually shows is the number of border encounters, with arrows misleadingly placed as if to indicate a fall during Trump’s presidency, when what the dip in the chart actually shows is a fall in border encounters during the Covid Pandemic.

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Trump also used the chart at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin on 2 April.

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Johnson told Fox news, according to PolitiFact, “that he had been developing the chart since 2014. He showed it to Trump before the Green Bay rally and Trump’s team made some changes and it has been using it ever since”.

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The original chart showed “monthly southwest border encounters at and between ports of entry from 2012 to 2024, citing U.S. Customs and Border Protection data,” PolitiFact reports.

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Those monthly figures seem to be accurate, it says, though exact numbers aren’t shown on Johnson’s graph.

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The chart also says, next to a black arrow pointing to the peak shown in the graphic, “Biden world record illegal immigrants, many from prisons and mental institutions, also terrorists. Nothing like this has ever happened to our country before!”

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“Immigration experts have told PolitiFact that there is no evidence that people released from prisons or mental institutions are coming to the U.S. in large numbers,” the organisation writes.

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At the chart’s bottom, a big red arrow points to April 2020, when immigrant encounters at the southwest border dipped to 17,110.

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Words next to the arrow read, “Trump leaves office. Lowest illegal immigration in recorded history.”

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“So, that’s when I left office,” Trump told the crowd shortly before the shooting, pointing out the chart’s red arrow. “That arrow is the lowest amount of illegal immigration ever in recorded history into our country. And then, the worst president in the history of our country took over and look what happened to our country.”

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But the arrow points to a decline in immigration encounters at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, when migration overall significantly dropped as nations imposed lockdowns. Trump left office nine months later, when Biden took over Jan. 20, 2021. Recorded encounters at the southwest border rose each month after April 2020, reaching 73,990 in December, Trump’s last full month in office.

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The four-day Republican national convention just wrapped up with a lengthy speech by Donald Trump, his first since an assassin opened fire on his rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

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Here are some highlights of the speeches from Trump, and the others who appeared on the convention stage in Milwaukee this evening:

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Trumpformally accepted the Republican presidential nomination, and, for what he said would be the first and only time, recounted the assassination attempt.

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At first, the former president adopted a tone of unity, but quickly lapsed into familiar partisan attacks, such as accusing Democrats of “weaponizing the justice system”.

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Then, Trump started doing what he usually does at campaign speeches: riffing on whatever comes to his mind. He did this throughout the speech, making it run way longer than planned.

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He did discuss his policies, saying he would “drill, baby, drill and close our borders” on his first day in office.

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However, he also made a bunch of misleading claims on crime, energy, inflation and the 2020 election.

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The former president wrapped up by telling voters “your expectations are not big enough”, and that he would “very quickly make America great again”.

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Earlier in the night, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed that assassination attempt “changed” Trump, who just wants “to return democracy” to the country – 2020 election meddling be damned.

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Republican delegatesdid not want to dwell on the 2020 election … sort of.

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Melania Trump, who had not been seen at the convention, appeared just before the former president took the stage.

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With a bang of his big gavel, chair Michael Whatley has officially closed what he dubbed “the greatest Republican convention in history”.

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We’ll see if history indeed remembers it that way.

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Donald Trump may speak on the phone with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy for the first time since he left the White House in 2021, Reuters reports.

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They were not able to say if the call had been confirmed, but a source told Reuters the two sides had talked about having the conversation on Friday.

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In his just-concluded speech to the Republican national convention, Trump said, “I will end every single international crisis that the current administration has created, including the horrible war with Russia and Ukraine, which would have never happened if I was president.”

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More than an hour and a half after it began, Trump concluded his speech accepting the Republican party’s presidential nomination.

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“We will save this country. We will restore the Republic, and we will usher in the rich and wonderful tomorrows that our people so truly deserve. America’s future will be bigger, better, bolder, brighter, happier, stronger, freer, greater and more united than ever before,” he said.

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“And quite simply put, we will very quickly make America great again.”

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The crowd erupted into applause, and Melania Trump then strolled out to join him onstage.

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The rest of the Trump family followed, and the traditional balloon drop came next:

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“Tonight for your partnership, for your support, and I am humbly asking for your vote,” he said.

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“Make our country great again. Every day, I will strive to honor the trust you have placed in me, and I will never, ever let you down. I promise that I will never let you down. To all of the forgotten men and women who have been neglected, abandoned and left behind, you will be forgotten no longer. We will press forward and together we will win, win, win,” he said.

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The crowd began chanting, “Win! Win! Win!”

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Trump is getting to the end of his speech, and making a pitch to voters that centers on the promise of better days ahead.

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“For too long, our nation has settled for too little. We settle for too little. We’ve given everything to other nations, to other people. You have been told to lower your expectations and to accept less for your families. I am here tonight with the opposite message. Your expectations are not big enough,” he said.

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Earlier, he said the would-be assassin in Pennsylvania “wanted to stop our movement. But the truth is, the movement has never been about me. It has always been about you. It’s your movement. The biggest movement in the history of our country, by far, can’t be stopped.”

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Trump is now on his familiar, hardline immigration rhetoric, noting that the GOP platform proposes “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country”.

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Earlier, he had hypothesized that crime is dropping in Central American countries like El Salvador because “they’re sending their murders to the United States of America”.

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Here’s more about Trump’s deportation plans:

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Donald Trump has said he wants to be “a dictator” on his first day in office.

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He hasn’t brought that back up in his speech, but did give an indication of what he would like to do, once he gets back to the White House.

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“At the heart of the Republican platform is our pledge to end this border nightmare and fully restore the sacred and sovereign borders of the United States of America. We’re going to do that on day one. That means two things on day one, right: drill, baby, drill and close our borders,” Trump said.

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“Drill, baby, drill,” is a reference to increasing oil production. “Close our borders,” which Joe Bidenis already sort of doing, would turn away asylum seekers and curb undocumented border crossings.

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Donald Trump also claimed tonight that the Biden administration “took our energy policies and destroyed them, and then they immediately went back to them”.

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This claim is misleading. Under Joe Biden, the United States is actually producing more crude oil than any country ever. Trump’s record was an average of 12.3m barrels a day in 2019. Biden set a new world record of 12.9m daily barrels in 2023.

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And between the lines of Trump’s assertion was the suggestion that Biden was trying to stop fossil fuel production, which is not accurate. Biden has approved some large and controversial projects, including the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska:

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Donald Trump has made several more false or misleading claims in his convention speech, including that the United States has had the worst inflation ever while Joe Biden was in office.

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During Biden’s presidency in June 2022, consumer prices rose by an annual rate of 9.1% – its highest level since 1981, but not of all time. Additionally, inflation has dropped in the two years since. In June, consumer prices rose by 3% annually:

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Trump just made his first foray into the well-trodden path of 2020 election denialism.

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As he recited a long list of policy proposals, the former president let slip: “And then we had that horrible, horrible result that we’ll never let happen again, the election result. We’re never going to let that happen again. They used Covid to cheat. You’re never going to let it happen again.”

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The evidence that the 2020 election was not marred by fraud is overwhelming. Just ask Trump’s own people:

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Trump is now shifting away from his message of unity and his recitation of the details of his shooting, and back to the partisan attacks for which he is so well known.

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He began by attacking Democrats for “weaponizing the justice system”, and insisting that he, despite his well-documented attempts to overturn the 2020 election, is a defender of democracy.

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“We are one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And we must not criminalize dissent or demonize political disagreement, which is what’s been happening in our country lately at a level that nobody has ever seen before. In that spirit, the Democrat party should immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling their political opponent as an enemy of democracy,” Trump said.

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“Especially since that is not true. In fact, I am the one saving democracy for the people of our country.”

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Trump is going through the details of his assassination attempt, saying that only because he happened to move his head did he survive.

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“The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if I had not moved my head at that very last instant, the assassin’s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would not be here tonight. We would not be together,” Trump said.

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Referring to the Secret Service, he said, “They’re incredible people. Bullets were flying over us, yet I felt serene, but now the Secret Service agents were putting themselves in peril. They were in very dangerous territory. Bullets were flying right over them, missing them by a very small amount of inches, and then it all stopped. Our Secret Service sniper, from a much greater distance and with only one bullet used, took the assassin’s life, took them out.

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“I’m not supposed to be here tonight,” Trump said. At that, the crowd began chanting, “Yes you are!”

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Trump has officially accepted the Republican party’s presidential nomination.

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“Tonight, with faith and devotion, I proudly accept your nomination for president of the United States,” Trump said.

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Donald Trump began his speech on a note of unity, while also predicting he will win the November election.

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“I stand before you this evening with a message of confidence, strength and hope. Four months from now, we will have an incredible victory, and we will begin the four greatest years in the history of our country,” Trump said.

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“We rise together, or we fall apart. I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America.”

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Donald Trump is now on stage, where he is poised to accept the Republican party’s presidential nomination in his first speech since being wounded by an assassin’s bullet during his weekend rally in Pennsylvania.

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He was revealed by a screen onstage that raised up to show him standing there, in front of big letters that read “TRUMP”.

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His right ear remains bandaged.

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And after all that, when the crowd’s energy was at its highest, on to the stage came … Kid Rock.

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“What up, America!” he yelled. Now he’s performing his 1998 song “Cowboy”.

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Melania Trump is walking out of the backstage and on to the convention floor.

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The former first lady is climbing up to the VIP box, where JD Vance and his wife, Usha, among many others, are waiting.

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However, her husband, Donald Trump, is no longer there. Perhaps he is getting ready for his speech.

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Melania Trump is currently at the Republican national convention, according to a photo of her backstage taken by the New York Times’ Doug Mills – although she is not sitting next to her husband in his special box.

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The photo shows Donald Trump, turning to his left to greet an amused-looking Melania in a narrow corridor underneath the stands, with the bandage on his ear visible.

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Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump has hit back at those who say the former president is “a threat to democracy”.

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Trump’s critics cite such actions as his incitement of the crowd that stormed the Capitol on January 6, his persistent attempts to stop Congress’s certification of Joe Biden’s election win, and his continued insistence that the 2020 election was marred by fraud, despite not producing any evidence.

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Despite all that, Eric Trump, a top official in the Trump organization, assured the convention that his father is an honest man.

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“He has defied the predictions of every political pundit. He fills stadiums across our country. He energizes Americans to the issues facing this nation, and does so with unvarnished honesty,” Trump said.

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“He is not a threat to democracy. He is a threat to those who despise our republic, many whom are bought and sold, bribed and coerced, people who have never signed the front of a check and who have been dependent on the government … their entire adult lives.”

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The Republican national convention is back on course.

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Donald Trump, who was in the VIP stands for a short period of time earlier in the night before quietly departing, has returned to his seat.

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Retired professional wrestler Hulk Hogan is now at the podium. He’s wearing a red hat and still has his trademark blond handlebar mustache.

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While Republicans rally in Milwaukee, a red state Democratic senator joined the chorus of voices calling on Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race.

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Senator Jon Tester, who faces a difficult re-election bid in Montana this year, became the second Democratic senator to publicly call on the president to drop out.

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“Montanans have put their trust in me to do what is right, and it is a responsibility I take seriously. I have worked with President Biden when it has made Montana stronger, and I’ve never been afraid to stand up to him when he is wrong,” Tester said.

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“And while I appreciate his commitment to public service and our country, I believe President Biden should not seek re-election to another term.”

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Biden is reportedly “soul searching” to determine his next steps, but it seems like the increasing pressure on him may be reaching a breaking point.

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Tucker Carlson just said onstage that what Donald Trump wants is to restore democracy in America.

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“I think the entire Trump project, paradoxically, is attacked as an enemy of democracy, is to return democracy to the United States,” the former Fox News host said.

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It’s a staggering claim in support of someone who sought to overturn the election results in several key swing states and stop the certification of the electoral vote in Congress.

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Tucker Carlson is telling the convention he believes Donald Trump “became the leader of this nation” after he was the target of the assassination attempt.

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“In that moment, Donald Trump, months before the presidential election, became the leader of this nation, that was the most obvious to me. And I have to say, you know, I think it changed him,” Carlson said, referring to the shooting targeting Trump at his rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend.

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“I reached out to Trump within hours of it that night and what he said to me that night, having just been shot in the face, he said not a single word about himself. He said only how amazed he was and how proud he was of the crowd, which didn’t run.”

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The reason that a stampede did not break out after the shooting was because “his courage gave them heart”, Carlson said. He also noted that Trump, “turned down the most obvious opportunity in politics to inflame the nation after being shot”.

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Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News conservative commentator, is now onstage at the Republican national convention and has been greeted with loud and persistent applause.

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“Thank you, oh, this is wild,” he said.

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Mike Pompeo, the former CIA Director and secretary of state in the Trump administration, said in his speech tonight that no Chinese spy balloons flew over the US when Trump was in office.

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It’s a line that has been used by several speakers at the Republican national convention to suggest that China became emboldened to fly spy balloons because they view Biden as weak.

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But it’s not rooted in reality, according to US intelligence officials. There were some balloons that flew over the US during that Trump presidency – they just weren’t detected until the Biden administration.

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One thing we haven’t heard much of from the speakers at the Republican national convention is conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

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While Donald Trump continues to stick to his disproven claim that he was fraudulently removed from office, few, if any, speakers have openly embraced that theory at the convention.

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“That’s in the past,” Evan Power, a Florida delegate who chairs the state’s Republican party, replied, when the Guardian’s US politics live blog asked him why the subject was being avoided.

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“Especially after the events of last Saturday, everyone’s focused on doing the work to win in 2024,” he added.

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Joseph Belnome, a New Jersey delegate who is running for Congress and protested outside the Capitol on January 6 – but reportedly insists he did not go inside the building – said of the 2020 election, “we’re beyond that now.”

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However, Belnome agreed with several speakers at the convention, who have claimed that undocumented people are voting – which in fact happens rarely.

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“It looks like they’re trying to get illegal aliens to vote or non citizens to vote,” Belnome said, noting that the theme of his campaign is “restore integrity”.

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When it comes to the 2020 election, Florida delegate Kathi Meo said, “We just gotta move on.”

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She spoke amid speculation that Joe Biden would call off his re-election effort, as polls show his support slumping in swing states after his un-energetic debate performance.

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Asked if she thought a different Democrat could beat Trump in Florida, which has become increasingly Republican over the past decade, Meo replied, “I don’t think there’s any possible person in the universe that could beat him, unless they cheat, which we know they will.”

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Donald Trump has taken his place at the convention ahead of his nomination and speech tonight, drawing a standing ovation from attendees.

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The former president grinned widely and also clapped and gave a fist pump, wearing his characteristic red, white and blue suit and tie combo.

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Tonight will not only see him anointed as the Republican party’s nominee at the top of the ticket for the presidential election alongside his new running mate, JD Vance.

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It will be Trump’s first speech since an assassination attempt against him at a rally in Pennsylvania last weekend, where his ear was clipped by a bullet fired by a man shooting from a rooftop.

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Mike Pompeo is addressing the convention and giving a relatively normal speech, pumping up his highlights of Donald Trump’s administration, in which he served, and criticized Joe Biden and his current administration that came after.

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Under Trump “we put America first every single day”, he said, listing the lack of major new wars, anti-immigration policies and “destroying Isis”.

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Pompeo talked of Afghanistan and said he was “disgusted by the incompetent pullout from that country” by US troops under Biden in the first summer after the Democrat became president.

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A US state department report last year criticized both the Trump and Biden administrations over the withdrawal and there’s been a lot of blame to go around. But the final evacuation under Biden in August 2021, as Kabul quickly fell to the Taliban, has been roundly criticized by military as well as political leaders.

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Pompeo then joked that Biden only “shuffles” across the global stage, rather than struts it, amid a crisis in the president’s re-election campaign over his age and acuity.

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Melania Trump is expected to appear on the final night of the Republican national convention in Milwaukee but, in a break with tradition, she will not deliver remarks, according to people familiar with the matter.

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The former president’s wife has been conspicuously absent in recent months, including at the New York criminal trial where Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

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Melania Trump will at least make an appearance at the convention on the night that her husband delivers his first public remarks since he survived a shooting that officials are investigating as an assassination attempt.

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Her decision not to give a speech is doubly notable because Melania Trump had overt acts at the 2016 convention, where she plagiarized some of Michelle Obama’s speech, and in 2020, when she gave a speech from the Rose Garden.

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Nancy Pelosi, revered in Democratic circles as the former long-serving and first female speaker of the US House of Representatives, thinks Joe Biden can be convinced before long to quit the top of the party’s re-election ticket, the Washington Post has just reported, citing anonymous sources.

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Pelosi, 84, who has represented California in Congress for decades, appears to have had some private discussions, the Post reports, that indicate a key factor in the president’s decision would be doubts about whether he can beat Donald Trump in November, the Republican former president who is about to receive his party’s formal nomination tonight.

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There have been reports in the past 24 hours that Pelosi is pivotal in the pressure campaign to persuade Biden to jump out of his re-election attempt. More details shortly.

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She appears to have been speaking in code for the past couple of weeks, referring in a TV interview to Biden having to make up his mind, when the president had already said emphatically that he had made up his mind to stay in the race. This all follows Biden’s dire debate performance against Trump last month.

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Donald Trump has met up with the director of the US Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, while both are in Milwaukee for the Republican national convention (RNC), in the wake of the attempted assassination of the former president last weekend, ABC is reporting.

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The TV network reports that the meeting took place at the hotel where Trump is staying in the Wisconsin city for the convention and was held on Tuesday, three days after a 20-year-old fired an assault rifle at the former president during a campaign rally in western Pennsylvania and narrowly missed killing him.

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LATEST: Former Pres. Trump met with Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle, a source told ABC News.

The meeting took place on Tuesday at the former president's hotel in Milwaukee, the source said.

It is unclear what was discussed in the meeting. https://t.co/CaHFvQMgpW

— ABC News (@ABC) July 18, 2024

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ABC cites an unnamed source. There has been a chorus, led by Republicans and including members of Donald Trump’s family, for Cheatle to step down from her role after the failure of the federal agency to protect the former president, whose right ear was injured as a bullet grazed it.

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We’ve put together an explainer going through the finer details of the closing evening of the Republican national convention, including when Donald Trump is expected to speak, how you can watch his address, and who else from the Trump family may be in the room.

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Give it a read here:

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Good evening US politics blog readers, and thank you for joining us as we cover the last night of the Republican national convention. Donald Trump is set to formally accept the GOP’s nomination to be its presidential candidate with a speech at the convention’s end. Before that, we’ll be hearing from a slew of speakers in a night themed “Make America great once again”. These include Tucker Carlson, the rightwing commentator who has struck off on his own show after Fox News fired him last year, the former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, the Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO, Dana White, and the retired professional wrestler Hulk Hogan.

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As he usually is, Trump is the star of the show, and the convention has him scheduled to speak for a whole 90 minutes, beginning at 9pm CT. This will be his first public address since an assassin tried to kill him on Saturday, and he’s still sporting a bandage on his right ear from the attempt, which led to the death of a rally-goer. This will also be the highest profile speech Trump has made since his first debate with Joe Biden in late June. The president’s fatigued performance in that showdown has led to a growing wave of Democrats – reportedly including the party’s leaders in Congress – to urge that he reconsider his bid for a second term in office. The Republicans, meanwhile, have been united around Trump, and his speech this evening will serve as a chance for him to elaborate on his plans for a second term in office.

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Here’s what we’ll be watching out for:

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Will Trump cast himself as a unifier? After his brush with death on Saturday, the former president has tried to play up the theme in his statements, and several speakers at the convention thus far have tried to cast him as a family man – perhaps as a way to detract attention from his often tawdry legal troubles.

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Convention speakers over the past three nights have made plenty of rightwing policy promises – but not quite as many as expected. Though attendees have waved signs reading “Mass deportations now” and some speakers have claimed, without evidence, that undocumented people have cast ballots, there has not been much mention of conspiracy theories around the 2020 election, plans to use the national guard to carry out mass deportations, or Trump’s vow to have the justice department to retaliate against his enemies. Will the former president mention those themes in his speech?

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Who else might Trump attack? It’s a given that he’ll go after Biden, but the Democrat is facing a backlash not seen in decades to his re-election campaign, and could step aside. Some earlier convention speakers have made a point of criticizing Kamala Harris, perhaps as a hedge to her ascension as the Democratic candidate. We’ll see if Trump follows suit.

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This blog is now closing, thanks for following along. You can read my colleague Sam Levine’s story on Trump’s RNC speech here:

The speech didn’t win over everyone the AP spoke to at a bar in Milwaukee:

“I don’t think he sounds any different than he did before the assassination attempt,” said John Frank, a 25–year-old designer in Milwaukee and self-described libertarian.

Frank said he does not plan to vote in November but nonetheless met up with a friend to watch the speech because “we didn’t want to miss something big happening in Milwaukee.”

All week, Max Bradshaw, the bar’s general manager, said he’s noticed a softened tone in Trump and other party leaders after the attempted assassination. Bradshaw declined to give his own view of Trump and said there’s a diversity of political beliefs among his staff, “but this whole week everybody’s been neutral.”

“It seems like we’re all coming a little bit more together, so regardless of what’s happening politically, I still feel more togetherness right now,” he said. “I’m very happy about that.”

Outside the pub Liam Stanton, 29, said he feels increasingly out of place in America’s two-party system, calling both parties “pathetic.” He described himself as a Bernie Sanders supporter who in previous presidential elections has voted for both Republicans and, once, a Democrat.

Despite agreeing with the Democratic Party’s “pro-immigrant views,” Stanton said he plans to vote for Trump. He sees President Joe Biden as “incoherent” and out-of-touch.

Still, Stanton wasn’t impressed by Trump’s speech and said he only attended the convention because a friend had free guest passes.

“I was hoping he would be spicier, to be honest with you,” Stanton said.

The AP has spoken to a handful of Trump supporters who watched the speech at a pub.

Here is what they had to say:

“He’s much improved,” said Dave Struthers, a 57-year-old farmer from Collins, Iowa, after watching the beginning of Trump‘s speech in the basement of his farmhouse. “It’s more of a conversation with the American people, rather than yelling at them.”

The more muted delivery at the outset was enough to get Trump a second look from Erich Hazen, a 32-year-old art teacher in Milwaukee, who described himself as a longtime Democrat who supports abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. He said he’s now considering a vote for Trump in November — surprising even himself.

“I feel like he’s calmed things down a bit more,” Hazen said. “Now that he’s a little more reserved, it’s making me feel more comfortable.”

“I’m normally not undecided, so this is a little bit strange for me,” he added. “But what I’ve seen from the other side hasn’t been impressive at all. He’s at least making coherent sentences.”

Jennifer Ryan Garnica, 52, who owns a store that sells Trump merchandise in Seal Beach, California, said she noticed an uptick in traffic in her store during the speech and thought people found it inspiring. She said the attempt on Trump’s life was an emotional experience for her and a change in tone was desperately needed.

“Our country has become so divided that we wish ill will on each other,” Garnica said.

It turns out there is a time limit on speeches even for Trump supporters at the RNC.

For all the fire and brimstone in his often off-script speech, as it neared the 90 minute mark, several journalists who were there noted that people were beginning to talk amongst themselves, look at their phones, or leave.

The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland wrote, “Overheard in the Georgia delegation: “Do you think he’s winding up soon?” Some folks are beginning to talk among themselves.”

The New York Times’ Maya King said, “The seats toward the top of the arena are slowly starting to empty out as Trump nears the 90-minute mark of his speech” and the Atlantic’s Tim Alberta Tweeted:

I’m standing 10 feet from the stage, in a sea of diehards, and some are getting restless. Checking phones, stealing glances at the teleprompter, whispering about when it will be over. pic.twitter.com/7Y7qDfH5fs

— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) July 19, 2024

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I’m standing 10 feet from the stage, in a sea of diehards, and some are getting restless. Checking phones, stealing glances at the teleprompter, whispering about when it will be over. pic.twitter.com/7Y7qDfH5fs

— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) July 19, 2024

Trump chose Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White to introduce him before his speech. That’s a sharp departure from the typical choice of a family member or prominent politician, the Associated Press reports.

In January 2023, White admitted to slapping his wife, Anne, on New Year’s Eve, after he was captured doing so in video released by TMZ.

Trump is a longtime friend of White and frequently attends UFC fights. His chief spokesman, Steven Cheung, used to work for UFC, and his campaign has used Trump’s appearances at the combat sport to try to appeal to younger, male voters.

In 2016 and 2020, Trump was introduced at the GOP conventions by his daughter Ivanka Trump, who has distanced herself from her father’s political ambitions since he left office and did not speak this year.

Key takeaways from Trump’s speech and the RNC

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If you’re just tuning in, here are the key takeaways from Trump’s RNC speech.

Trump talked about his assassination attempt for the first, and he said, final time. Like many his supporters, Trump said he believed he had been protected by God last weekend, but he also emphasized how moved he had been by the behavior of his supporters when he was shot. When faced with a hail of bullets, he said, most crowds would have panicked and tried to flee, but his did not. “For the rest of my life,” Trump said, “I will be grateful for the love shown by that giant audience of patriots that stood bravely on the fateful evening in Pennsylvania.”
Trump may be ‘changed’ after the assassination attempt, but he didn’t sound that changed. In the early minutes of his speech, Trump delivered some of the “unity” rhetoric that he told journalists he had planned. “The discord and division in our society must be healed,” Trump said. “I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America.” But soon after the somber beginning to his “unity” speech, Trump turned cheerful and chatty, first praising his friends, and then, soon enough, railing in a familiar way against “crazy Nancy Pelosi”, calling Biden one of America’s worst presidents, and then, to cheers, referring to Covid once again as the “China virus”.
The Republican convention is a mirror world: ‘I am the one saving democracy,’ Trump says. Republican politicians kept reciting the names of women who have been raped or sexually assaulted by immigrants, while blaming the Democratic party’s immigration policies for putting them at risk. They didn’t talk about Trump being found liable of sexual abuse in a civil trial brought by the magazine writer E Jean Carroll, or the allegations of sexual misconduct he has faced from more than two dozen women. Biden and Harris were called criminals, rather than the candidate who has been convicted on 34 felony charges.
Trump again pledges to carry out the largest deportation in US history. Before Trump spoke, other Republican politicians devoted large swathes of time during their convention to demonizing undocumented migrants, blaming them for a host of social ills, and advocating not just for a border wall but also “Mass deportations now.”
Trump promises ‘two things on day one’ … ‘Close our borders’ and ‘drill, baby, drill!”. Trump also joined other Republicans throughout the week in touting the GOP as the party of fossil fuel, as Republicans repeatedly chanted: “Drill, baby, drill!” Climate change experts and activists have said that both Trump and his vice presidential pick, JD Vance, are likely to pursue a “methodical” climate crisis denial presidency that would include increasing production of fossil fuel, ignoring mainstream climate science and undermining or overturning rules to reduce emissions.

Lois Beckett

For all the claims from his supporters that surviving an assassination attempt had left Donald Trump a “changed” man, one more softened and spiritual, the Trump who accepted his party’s nomination on Thursday night was deeply familiar: same divisive rhetoric, same divisive policies.

But the Republican crowd that surrounded Trump was certainly cheerful and energized. “I have never been to a more fun convention, or a convention with better vibes,” the ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson told them, and his unscripted comments seemed to capture a real mood. Biden and the Democrats are foundering, Trump narrowly survived a terrifying attack, and Republicans appear to believe that Trump has already won the election.

California House Representative Jim Costa also calls for Biden to step aside

California House Representative Jim Costa has also called on Biden to step aside, the Hill reports.

Democrat Senator Jon Tester calls for Biden to step aside

Senator Jon Tester, who faces a challenging reelection battle in Montana this year, on Thursday became the second senator to publicly call on Biden to drop out.

“I have worked with President Biden when it has made Montana stronger, and I’ve never been afraid to stand up to him when he is wrong,” Tester said in a statement.

“And while I appreciate his commitment to public service and our country, I believe President Biden should not seek re-election to another term,” he added.

Meanwhile Democratic US Senator John Hickenlooper told Reuters Biden has, “done what’s best for America … I think he’ll keep doing so,” adding, “He’s working towards that.” Hickenlooper declined to say whether he believed Biden should step aside as a candidate.

Sam Levine

Donald Trump recounted the attempt on his life in dramatic detail as he formally accepted the Republican nomination for president on Thursday evening in Milwaukee in a speech that began with a call for unity and then turned into meandering attacks on his political rivals.

“I’m not supposed to be here tonight,” Trump said to an electrified crowd at the Fiserv Forum. Speaking in a subdued, quiet tone, Trump called his survival a “providential moment” and said: “I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God.”

“I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America,” he said at the start of his speech, which lasted around 91 minutes. He was interrupted by chants of “Fight! Fight! Fight!” from the audience.

Trump went on to kiss the helmet and embrace the uniform of Corey Comperatore, the firefighter who was killed as he shielded his family as Trump was shot at in Butler Township, Pennsylvania.

But that tone ended shortly after.

Trump went on to attack Democrats over the numerous criminal cases that he faces. “The Democrat party should immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling their political opponents as an enemy of democracy, especially since that is not true,”he said.

“If Democrats want to unify our country, they should drop these partisan witch-hunts.”

DNC Chair Jaime Harrison: last four days saw ‘far right and dangerous’ vision endorsed by speakers

“This week, convicted felon Donald Trump reminded the American people why they voted him out of office four years ago – because he doesn’t care about working families, he only cares about himself. In Trump’s Republican Party, there’s only space for unquestioning loyalists who will put him above our democracy, above our freedoms, and above working families. That’s why Trump chose JD Vance to be his running mate, and it’s why Trump’s former vice president – who he tried to get to overturn the election – was nowhere to be found this week in Milwaukee.

“Over the past four days, we’ve seen speakers endorse a far-right, dangerous vision that would see Americans’ basic liberties stripped away and replace the rule of law with the rule of Trump. No amount of desperate spin can change how unpopular and out of touch their disastrous plans are for the American people.

“Trump and Vance are running on the dangerous Project 2025 agenda to put tax cuts for billionaires above lowering costs for working people, outlaw abortion and threaten other basic rights, and put our democracy at risk. The more voters learn about the Trump-Vance ticket – the most extreme running mates in modern American history – the more fired up they are to reelect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris this November.”

Biden and Harris statement