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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,

this is Potomac Watch.

As the polls for Joe Biden somehow managed to get even worse, the Republican National

Convention in Milwaukee introduces the nation to J.D. Vance, the next potential vice president of the

United States, as well as his wife, while the delegates now await tonight's highly

anticipated speech by the man himself Donald Trump.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues in Milwaukee,

columnist James Freeman and Kim Strassal.

James will give you the first word since Kim and I have been yacking on here all week,

but your best of the web column on Wednesday at W.S.J.com ran under the headline.

Its official Republicans are staging an effective convention.

So perhaps the place to start would be,

what did you mean by that

and what has been your overall impression so far of these

proceedings, the delegates, the swag, the beer cheese soup, or anything else that has caught your eye

this week?

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