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Hey, good morning, everyone. I'm Playboy co-author Ryan Liza. It's Thursday, July 18th,

and we're coming to you from the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

I'm going to take you straight to our newsroom as the convention has wrapped, and then we'll

talk about what you expect today during the final day of the RNC.

All right, so the third night just wrap, and today was a little bit of an unusual day because

the highlight was J.D. Vance's speech, but everyone inside the arena was buzzing, even a lot of the Republicans from where I was sitting, about the drama going on with Joe Biden.

So I've got two of the best political reporters here with me to discuss that, Adam Wren, National Political Correspondent, and my playbook co-author colleague, Eugene Daniels.

The best playbook co-author.

Just cut that part.

Adam, let's start with Vance.

You were there on the floor, and my very, very subjective impression, I have to say, the entire

time watching Vance,

I was texting Democrats in Washington about the Biden drama.

So I will say that I was not paying close attention.

But I've been to a lot of conventions.

I've been to, you know, every one since 2000.

And that was not a crowd that was lit on fire by him.

Tell us what your impressions were.

You weren't the only person texting during his speech.

I stood next to the Republican delegate at large from Brentwood, Tennessee, an upscale suburb

of Nashville, the kind of place that the ticket needs to win in. And so essentially,

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