As RNC looms, what to know about the political fallout of the Trump rally shooting
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🗓️ 14 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is the week that Trump will be officially nominated at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee |
| 0:05.2 | and that's where news hour anchors Amna Navas and Jeff Bennett are tonight. |
| 0:09.4 | I imagine things are going to be a little different now from what was originally planned. |
| 0:15.2 | John I think that's fair to say what was meant to be a celebration this week as Republican |
| 0:19.7 | lawmakers and delegates will gather to officially nominate Donald Trump in the space behind us here. |
| 0:25.9 | It's taken on a completely different tone in the wake of this assassination attempt. |
| 0:30.1 | Senior Republican officials are telling me that they think the party is more united than |
| 0:34.1 | it's been that even Trump's skeptics are more firmly behind him and that his very first |
| 0:38.9 | remarks here in this arena are now even more highly anticipated. |
| 0:42.6 | Yeah, and that's with the RNC saying that this convention will go ahead as planned. |
| 0:47.0 | Officials say there are no major structural changes plan to this week's gathering, but security |
| 0:52.3 | has been stepped up for the more |
| 0:54.0 | than 50,000 politicians, delegates, members of the media who are expected here |
| 0:59.2 | this week. Two law enforcement sources say planning is underway to expand the security perimeter here |
| 1:05.8 | and President Biden today said he ordered the Director of Secret Service to review all |
| 1:10.4 | security measures for the convention. |
| 1:13.1 | Political correspondent Lisa Desjardan is covering the Trump campaign and joins us now. |
| 1:17.0 | Lisa, it's great to see you. |
| 1:18.4 | So give us a sense of the reaction from Republican politicians and from the Trump campaign. |
| 1:23.4 | Right, well Republicans writ large say something first of all. |
| 1:26.2 | They wanted to acknowledge that this was an assassination attempt against not only a former |
| 1:29.9 | president, but a man that millions of Americans would like to be president again. |
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