All Things With Kim Strassel: RNC Chairman Michael Whatley

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Is next week’s Republican National Convention a chance for the party to unify after fractures during the primary? On the inaugural episode of the All Things with Kim Strassel podcast, RNC Chairman Michael Whatley explains why the party is rallying behind the theme “Make America Once Again”; the GOP's 2024 approach to election integrity; why it doesn't matter if it's Joe Biden or a replacement at the top of the Democratic ticket; and why even he doesn’t know who will be Donald Trump’s running mate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.2	slash Wall Street. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is
0:19.1	all things with Kim Strassal, a Potomac Watch podcast.
0:22.9	Welcome to All Things with Kim Strozel, a brand new podcast
0:26.3	from the Wall Street Journal opinion page.
0:28.5	And this our inaugural episode, and for that,
0:32.0	we are very fortunate to have a guest who will be one of
0:35.2	the prime movers and shakers of many of next week's biggest headlines coming
0:40.3	out of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,
0:43.4	Michael Lottley, the chair of the Republican National Committee,
0:46.9	joins us now.
0:47.9	Michael, welcome, I think you're coming to us from Milwaukee.
0:51.3	Is that not true?
0:52.2	Yep, yep. We are here for Committee Week and we've got an RNC meeting as well and a lot of prep
0:58.6	work that goes into getting the arena and the stage and everything else ready to go, but we are so excited about
1:05.2	this convention and the opportunity for us to have 50,000 delegates, guests, and media converge
1:11.6	on Milwaukee to celebrate President Trump and the nomination. and lines right now are on Democratic disarray and we'll get there but I want to talk
1:24.1	about Republicans for a bit and I know this week the RNC and the Trump campaign
1:28.6	in addition to everything else you were just describing organizationally you have also announced your
1:34.4	themes for the convention and four years ago I remember there was and it was
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