Hey y'all, it's the NVR Politics Podcast. The Republican National Convention here in Cleveland

is officially over. We made it. We got the Grand Finale from Donald Trump himself.

I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.

There you go. So this is our last daily episode for this convention. Let's talk about Trump's

big night. I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter. I'm Sarah McCammon, campaign reporter.

And I'm Ron Elving Editor correspondent. And what you hear in the background is balloons

being popped systematically by what appear to be balloon poppers. Arena employees who don't

want to try to herd balloons. They would rather sweep up little plastic things.

There are what? Is it thousands? Thousands of balloons. And how many dumpsters do you think

it would take to fit all those balloons in a dumpster unpopped? But couldn't we make

many children happy? We could. And yeah, anyway, there were thousands that were actually

up in the rafters all week waiting. And amazingly enough, they were red, white and blue, Sam.

What? You don't say? Yeah. And I had never seen this before, but it's crazy to see it.

You see it on TV, but standing in here in the hall, it's literally raining balloons.

It's actually beautiful. It's really fun. Yeah, absolutely. So this is it. This is probably

our last episode for the week. Don't cry dear listeners. We will see what happens with

Hillary Clinton's VP announcement in the next few days. More on that later. So you guys,

what a week, Sarah. This was your first time I mentioned my first convention. Ron, you

know it's way up in the teens. But like this was a week, no? It was. And it was really,

I mean, after seeing a number of these things, this one stands very much apart because the

candidate and the candidates team were taking over the Republican National apparatus, of

course, but they were also to some degree still at war with it, still at odds with it,

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