Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Amna Navas on the news hour tonight.

Vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance prepares to take the stage at the Republican National Convention

here in Milwaukee. A look at his political views and how they've shifted in recent years.

A lot of Americans got to know him in 2016 as a

Rust Belt working class conservative who thought

Donald Trump had the wrong prescriptions

to save people like the ones he grew up with.

Plus a number of convention speakers claim past elections have been rigged and

non-citizens are voting all despite a lack of evidence we lay out the facts and

a detailed Human Rights Watch report accuses Hamas of war crimes for the October 7th

attack on Israel. Welcome to the news hour from inside the Republican National Convention here in

Milwaukee. Tonight the stage behind us belongs to J.D. Vance who will headline

the evening and accept his party's nomination for vice president.

Last night belonged to Donald Trump's one-time rivals in the bruising primary race,

making peace with the nominee, and urging the party to put aside its differences.

Lisa Desjardan starts our coverage tonight from the floor.

As we've got ready for day three, last night it felt like the convention started to find its energy with a night of big speakers and one big message.

A night to unite the party.

Let's send Joe Biden back to his basement and let's send Donald Trump back to the White House.

Former rivals of Donald Trump now eager allies.

Donald Trump has been demonized, he's been sued, he's been prosecuted and he nearly lost his life.

We cannot let him down and we cannot let America down a political 180 from those who were

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