It has been a convention unlike any other with the assassination attempt against

former President Donald Trump lingering over the week but this moment is

just the latest on the long timeline of the Republican Party.

Our Lisa Desjardin is back now with a look at the the long time line of the Republican Party.

Our Lisa Desjardin is back now with a look at the birth of the GOP

and what it means for today.

Did you hear about the birthplace of the Republican Party yet?

Just outside the Republican

National Convention in Milwaukee, Mandy Kimes is giving history

lessons to anyone who listen.

It happened just an hour and a half away from here.

It's 170 years old. She's traveled almost a

hundred miles from the small town of Ripon, Wisconsin, bringing a replica of

the original little white schoolhouse where the Republican Party was born 170 years ago.

I really think people are kind of surprised when they're learning about history and I think

because this is the story of the Republican Party,

we have kind of like a hook to draw them in.

And then all of a sudden they're learning something

even deeper than what they thought it was.

But before my lesson, I asked Kimes about much more recent history, the attempted assassination of former President Trump.

I think if anything it's made everything feel more poignant and more important, but I think there's still a sense of

camaraderie a sense almost like pulling together and a united front.

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