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🗓️ 18 July 2016
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody. It's Glenn Thrush with this week's edition of Politico's Off Message |
0:12.8 | podcast, the special Republican National Convention edition. And I am reminded about the first |
0:20.4 | Republican convention that I really kind of covered from start to finish. |
0:24.9 | And that was not too long ago, actually, the 2004 convention in New York, which took place in the shadow of the 9-11 attacks. |
0:31.6 | And I think it's really interesting to look at the contrast between this and Cleveland. |
0:36.1 | First of all, Rudy Giuliani at that point in time was essentially the keynote speaker. |
0:40.7 | He was the hottest Republican who hadn't been able to get elected in the country at that point in time. |
0:47.0 | And he was really somebody who was seen as a real uniter for the party. |
0:51.8 | And I remember being down on the floor in 2004, Madison Square |
0:56.2 | Garden, and the security was really intense. And I had somehow managed to get myself into the Texas |
1:02.9 | delegation, which was right there up in front of the stage, and Rudy was talking. And the sense of |
1:08.4 | excitement and the sense of unity around Rudy Giuliani was just amazing. |
1:12.6 | People were crying when he was giving a speech. |
1:15.6 | They were wearing New York Yankees caps. |
1:17.6 | People from Texas were putting on New York Yankees caps. |
1:20.6 | And even when they found out I was, at that point I was working for Newsday, which is a tabloid in New York City. |
1:26.6 | When they heard that I was a New Yorker, I was getting hugs from Texans. |
1:30.7 | And I just remember the Republican Party being enormously unified around Bush and around the |
1:37.6 | notion that you needed to stand behind a wartime president. |
1:40.8 | And the other thing that I recall was the convention, the head of the convention |
1:44.4 | was a guy named Harris, but the one who was really running it was Ed Gillespie, who I still think |
1:48.9 | is the smartest Republican operative in the business. He really orchestrated this thing. And this |
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