Swamp Notes: Trump pushes unity at Republican National Convention
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Republicans gathered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for their convention this week, just days after their party leader was nearly assassinated. The presidential nominee, Donald Trump, started off with a message of unity. However, it’s unclear if that message will stick. The FT’s deputy Washington bureau chief Lauren Fedor and US political news editor Derek Brower discuss this new layer for the Republican party. Credit: Associated Press, ABC News
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
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| 0:10.0 | This week on swamp notes we took the show on the road. |
| 0:13.0 | Can you guess where? |
| 0:17.0 | Build that wall. |
| 0:18.0 | Build that wall. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm here on the floor at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in the state of |
| 0:26.4 | Wisconsin. |
| 0:27.4 | This is a big sports arena that they have decked out in red, white, and blue, seen a lot of images of American flags. |
| 0:36.0 | People decked out in red, white, and blue. |
| 0:39.0 | Lots of those iconic Make America Great Again, red hats. things haven't kicked off here for tonight so people are kind of milling around, talking to each other, for one who's in a super good mood. |
| 0:49.0 | I've been talking to a lot of delegates and the one word that I hear over and over again is a unity come |
| 0:56.0 | together as a people I think it's been very united I honestly feel like it's almost |
| 1:02.2 | united the party. |
| 1:03.2 | To me the theme has totally been unity. |
| 1:07.8 | We heard that idea in speeches throughout the week |
| 1:10.2 | and former President Donald Trump |
| 1:11.9 | really brought it home on Thursday night. |
| 1:14.0 | Together we will launch a new era of safety, prosperity and freedom for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. |
| 1:24.0 | The discord and division in our society must be healed. |
| 1:28.4 | We must heal it quickly. |
| 1:31.4 | Last weekend's assassination attempt seems to have produced a somewhat softer version of him. |
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