Live Coverage: The 2024 Republican National Convention Kicks Off
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MS NOW, Eugene Daniels, Symone Sanders Townsend
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🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 132 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Good evening and welcome to MS NBC's special coverage of the first night of the 2024 Republican National Convention in |
| 0:26.2 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Rachel Maddo. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm joined here at MSMBC Headquarters by my colleagues Joy Reed and Nicole Wallace and Jensaki and Ari Melborough. |
| 0:35.6 | We've got Chris Hayes under a desk here somewhere. On days like this when it can |
| 0:39.8 | feel difficult to wrap your head around all of the news that will just not stop |
| 0:44.4 | unfolding. We know you have every choice in the world about where to watch the news |
| 0:48.6 | tonight so we're grateful to have you here with us. Let's start with some of the day's biggest developments |
| 0:54.1 | just after 3 o'clock eastern this afternoon. Republican nominee Donald Trump |
| 0:59.0 | announced online that he had chosen Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his vice presidential running mate. |
| 1:05.2 | J.D. Vance is 39 years old. He has held political office for less than two years, |
| 1:10.7 | before which he was best known for writing his autobiography. |
| 1:15.0 | Senator Vance was famously a harsh Trump critic in 2016 when Trump first ran for president |
| 1:21.0 | JD Vance at the time, again then famous just as an author, called |
| 1:25.8 | Trump reprehensible, called his policies immoral and absurd, and even wondering if Trump was, and I'm quoting here literally America's Hitler. |
| 1:35.0 | Nevertheless, Vance has worked very hard to earn this vice presidential nod. He has become one of Donald |
| 1:45.3 | Trump's most vociferous defenders and especially an eager promoter of the lie that Donald Trump secretly won the 2020 election. |
| 1:56.1 | The announcement of the J.D. Vance pick came today just moments before Trump was formally nominated as the Republican Party's |
| 2:05.0 | presidential nominee. That was done by a roll call of state delegates in the |
| 2:09.1 | FISA Forum in downtown Milwaukee. Trump needed 1,215 delegates to secure the nomination. |
| 2:16.5 | He crossed over that numerical threshold with the delegates from Florida, which were announced from the floor by his sons, let's see, two sons, |
| 2:28.2 | a daughter, son's girlfriend there. |
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