“Full of cranks and weirdos” - inside the Republican National Convention
The News Agents
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🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Emily is live from the Republican Party National Convention in Milwaukee, a room full of "cranks and weirdos", as we react to the news that Ohio Senator J.D Vance will be Trump's running mate in the 2024 Presidential election.
What does Vance stand for? Will he change the trajectory of the campaign? And is he even more Trump than Trump himself?
Later in the show we discuss two men who have resigned from their jobs today. Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething, and England manager Gareth Southgate.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:17.9 | What a great night. |
| 0:27.6 | Pursuant to Rule 40D of the rules of the Republican Party, I formally declare President Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance as the Republican nominees for President and Vice President of the United States. |
| 0:33.6 | The crowd is going wild. For the 39-year-old Ohio Senator J.D. Vance. |
| 0:41.3 | He's just been announced as Donald Trump's vice presidential pick. |
| 0:46.3 | He's a man who not long ago referred to Trump as America's Hitler. |
| 0:51.3 | He called him an asshole, in fact. |
| 0:53.3 | But now all that's forgotten. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:00.6 | The newsagents. |
| 1:02.5 | Tediously, it is John in London. And Lewis in London. And Emily in sunny, actually tornado-filled |
| 1:09.6 | Milwaukee in Wisconsin. |
| 1:12.0 | And I guess the point about saying overtly that you are never Trump, is that you are never Trump. |
| 1:21.1 | But this guy, J.D. Vance, has suddenly decided that he very much is Trump. |
| 1:26.8 | And in fact, he's just become his VP pick. And it was |
| 1:30.5 | a weird moment of sort of botched comms for about five minutes in the hall yesterday. When we knew |
| 1:39.3 | that this pick, the VP pick, was coming and everyone was kind of getting into the hall to try and get a |
| 1:44.6 | flavour of, you know, how it be announced and the roll call and the flags and the shouting and all |
| 1:49.5 | the rest of it. And then they sort of slipped it out really quickly to the point where people |
| 1:53.7 | around us in the audience were going, what, who did they say? What was going on? Everyone kind of |
| 1:57.6 | missed it. And so they had to sort of then reannounce the fact that J.D. Vance was coming in with this long, big build-up |
| 2:05.8 | where all the crews were kind of waiting for him to make his entrance onto the floor of the convention hall. |
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