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Last updated: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 12:06PM GMT
The erstwhile Republican rivals took the signifier to promote voters to prime Donald Trump astatine the Republican normal Tuesday.
MILWAUKEE -- The 3rd time of the Republican National Convention kicks disconnected Wednesday with Republicans - led by the recently nominated Donald Trump and JD Vance - shifting to issues of nationalist information and overseas policy.
Republicans are expected to absorption connected Democratic President Joe Biden's handling of the ongoing crises successful Europe and the Middle East. Former Trump medication officials are expected to instrumentality the signifier to outline what overseas argumentation would look similar successful a 2nd Trump term.
That volition apt see speeches from Richard Grenell, Trump's erstwhile acting manager of nationalist intelligence, and erstwhile Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
And Vance is expected to judge his party's information for vice president.
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Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson said erstwhile President Donald Trump called him.
He described the speech arsenic "pleasant" and that the telephone telephone was astir 2-3 minutes long.
Trump thanked him for the information surrounding the lawsuit and invited to the city. Johnson said helium wished Trump a speedy betterment from the shooting.
Johnson said helium was saddened by the officer-involved shooting connected Tuesday and said that his thoughts are with some the victim's household and the Columbus, Ohio Police Department.
Many of the speeches Wednesday volition instrumentality purpose astatine the Biden administration's handling of planetary issues, including the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to Trump's run and the Republican National Committee, with the taxable of "Make America Strong Once Again."
"Under Joe Biden, the weakest commander-in-chief successful our country's history, America has go a planetary laughingstock," the committee enactment retired successful an beforehand release.
Republicans spot overseas argumentation arsenic 1 of their strongest run issues, arguing that America's lasting connected the satellite signifier was stronger nether Trump contempt the party's increasing isolationist shift.
"I tin archer you, countries astir the world, leaders, are perfectly uncomfortable with the unpredictability of Donald Trump," Grenell, Trump's erstwhile ambassador to Germany, said during a reporters' roundtable Monday. "And erstwhile I accidental uncomfortable, that means they don't cognize precisely what he's going to bash next. And that's a affirmative for us."
It is an statement helium volition apt marque again Wednesday night.
While the absorption of Wednesday's league is expected to beryllium beyond America's borders, Republicans are expected to besides item however Biden's expected "weakness" connected migration is besides endangering our estimation abroad. Many speakers person already documented claims that a increasing fig of overseas terrorists person been capable to illegally get into the U.S. from Mexico. Republicans person pointed to the arrests past period connected U.S. ungraded of 8 radical from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State group.
Convention organizers are not expected to denote who volition talk connected the event's 2nd time until aboriginal Wednesday morning.
