Delegates and alternate delegates, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2024 Republican National Convention.

So yesterday was the first day of the Republican National Convention.

And this week, we're in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to watch up close. As more than 2,400

delegates gathered to officially nominate Donald Trump. We'll be on your feed during the convention to tell you what we're seeing and more importantly

what it tells us about Trump's Republican Party.

From the New York Times and the Baird Center in Milwaukee, I'm Estad Herndon. This is the run-up. So fun!

Yeah.

Yes. Jess, can you introduce yourself and you know, welcome back to the show?

Thank you for having me. I'm Jess Bidgood. I write the On Politics newsletter for the New York Times and I am here in Milwaukee also.

I mean I'm talking tonight to debrief the first day of the convention as someone

else whose job requires kind of sifting through of the just ended and we're sitting in this improvised sound booth in downtown Milwaukee.

You know Jess I remember that four years ago we were both here for the Democratic National

Convention but that was during COVID where basically nobody else was here.

It's the exact opposite this year

where the city is swimming with people

and swimming with security barricades also.

Yes, that was a very different experience

than the one we're having this week.

It was locked down.

We had no choice but to watch the convention on TV

and go to your favorite bars through Milwaukee. We were both in here. on Except four years later, it seems like we're both at a shockingly different time,

but obviously we also have the same two presidential candidates.

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