Live at the RNC: Insiders decode the Trump and Vance show
Power Play
POLITICO
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🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It's been an eventful few days at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Donald Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, are preparing to take the stage for their set-piece speeches. How will they set the tone for the election campaign?
Inside the convention center, host Anne McElvoy talks to Hogan Gidley, press secretary during Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, about the key messages the former president will be hoping to land with voters in the battleground states that will determine the race.
Later she's joined by POLITICO's A-Team to take the temperature of a dramatic week: John Harris, global editor-in-chief, and Eugene Daniels, POLITICO’s White House correspondent and co-author of POLITICO Playbook. Daniels has also just been appointed president of the White House Correspondents’ Association for 2024-25.
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| 0:00.0 | The Republican Party in Milwaukee was keen to show both unity and strength. |
| 0:09.0 | The reception delegates gave Donald Trump, a survivor of the attack on his life at the weekend was rousing. |
| 0:15.0 | And his newly named running mate JD Vance was also basking in the limelight as the vice presidential candidate. |
| 0:25.6 | It is therefore my honor to nominate Ohio Senator JD Vance for the Office of Vice President of the United States of America. |
| 0:37.0 | Will Donald Trump fulfill his promise to deliver a unifying message, make America won again when he takes to the stage to make his big address. |
| 0:47.0 | And what will the reaction of J.D. Vans be? |
| 0:50.8 | Welcome to Power Play, Politico's weekly podcast where we talk to some of the most |
| 0:58.2 | influential people on either side of the |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Anne McElvoy and if you haven't already please do take a moment to follow this podcast |
| 1:06.0 | so you don't miss an episode with a guest you might like to hear from or perhaps a surprise |
| 1:11.0 | and my guest today knows more than most about what it's like to ride on the Trump campaign wagon. |
| 1:17.1 | Hogan Giddley was press secretary in Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign, |
| 1:22.0 | now a senior advisor to the Ultra Loyal America First Policy |
| 1:26.3 | Institute. |
| 1:27.3 | Later, I'll be joined by our Politico 18, John Harris, Global Editor-in-Chief, and Eugene Daniels, Politicos. political here in the hubbub of the Convention Center is Hogan Giddley and welcome to |
| 1:45.0 | power plague. Thank you so much for having me I appreciate it. Now you've been in |
| 1:49.6 | the communications engine room in Donald Trump's first administration. |
| 1:54.4 | You headed up press for his re-election campaign. |
| 2:00.1 | That didn't work out. |
| 2:00.9 | What's different this time? |
| 2:06.8 | So much. Obviously we're not facing a global pandemic, so the things will kind of settle back to norms. |
| 2:09.8 | And there's just such a different sense at this convention, as I've done so many now over the course of my career, a sense of unity, yes. |
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