A Dispatch from the Republican National Convention
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🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The New Yorker contributing writer Antonia Hitchens calls Tyler Foggatt from Milwaukee to offer some details and observations from the first night of the Republican National Convention, at which Donald Trump was formally nominated to be the G.O.P.’s 2024 Presidential nominee. An assassination attempt on the former President over the weekend only heightened the messianic feeling that surrounds Trump, and gave a strange poignancy to the anointing of J. D. Vance as Trump’s running mate and the potential next leader of the MAGA movement, Hitchens says.
This week’s reading:
- “Trump, Unity, and MAGA Miracles at the R.N.C.,” by Antonia Hitchens
- “A Nation Inflamed,” by David Remnick
- “Why Donald Trump Picked J. D. Vance for Vice-President,” by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
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| 0:00.0 | Looking at the images from Saturday after the shooting where Trump is rising up from the ground with blood dripping on his face and raising his fist up, |
| 0:10.0 | I think he said, you know, to get a photo that good, you're meant to die, you're not meant to survive to have that image of resilience. |
| 0:18.0 | And so there was definitely the sense among supporters and delegates last night that God had not just made Trump, but God had saved |
| 0:27.0 | Trump so that he could save them. |
| 0:30.8 | This week, New Yorker contributing writer Antonia Hitchins is reporting from the Republican National Convention. |
| 0:37.0 | On Monday, the GOP formally nominated Donald Trump for president just days after a gunman made an attempt on his life. |
| 0:45.7 | Antonio has been following the Trump campaign for months now. |
| 0:49.3 | She witnessed firsthand as he won the Iowa Caucus and she attended the victory party at Marilago on Super Tuesday. |
| 0:56.3 | Antonio took a break from her reporting |
| 0:58.0 | to call us from her hotel room in Milwaukee |
| 1:00.4 | and describe what it's been like on the ground |
| 1:02.0 | at the convention. |
| 1:03.0 | We spoke on Tuesday morning. |
| 1:05.0 | You're listening to the political scene. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Tyler Foggett and I'm a senior editor at The New Yorker. Hey Antonio, thanks so much for coming on the show. |
| 1:20.0 | Thanks so much for coming on the show. |
| 1:22.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:24.3 | What has the mood been like at the convention, |
| 1:26.3 | given that this is happening just a couple days |
| 1:29.0 | after former President Trump was shot at a rally. I think the question hanging over Milwaukee |
| 1:36.4 | on Sunday night was what will the tone and vibe of the convention be in light |
| 1:41.4 | of Saturdays events. |
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