Trump Republican National Convention speech live updates: Former president mentions Biden only twice during Hulk Hogan’s introduction

The convention became a family event, with Trump accepting the Republican nomination and delivering his first speech since surviving the shooting, but his youngest son did not join the family onstage.

The former president’s second son used his height to his advantage in a speech on the final day of the Republican National Convention to denounce transgender athletes.

Eric Trump claimed his father was fighting for the “soul of America” ​​and listed his grievances against the Biden administration in a speech that touched on energy, the economy, infrastructure, the southern border, Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, the Middle East, the fentanyl crisis and crime.

He then attacked “male athletes, guys my size, 6’5”, saying they were “playing a women’s sport, swimming” and “destroying the dreams of young girls who spend every moment of their lives training”.

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Another Republican favorite, former Fox News host and Moscow tourist Tucker Carlson, also took the stage on the convention’s final night to offer his own unique perspective.

This is Eric Garcia About what he was trying to say.

Wrestling star Hulk Hogan wowed the crowd at the Republican National Convention last night with some WWE antics, leading the crowd in chants of “USA! USA!” and performing some over-the-top antics for the cameras, including taking off his shirt.

“All of you criminals, all of you scoundrels, all of you scumbags, all of you drug dealers and all of you corrupt politicians, you need to answer one question, brothers,” he said.

“What are you going to do when Donald Trump and the Trump-maniacs start rampaging through you, brother?”

This is John Bowden and Mike Bedigan About a show that Republicans were really looking forward to.

On the final night of the Republican National Convention, the former first lady was greeted with rapturous applause as she made her entrance and gave her husband a quick kiss on the cheek as he finished his lengthy acceptance speech.

Melania Trump was photographed standing behind Trump along with his new running mate for 2024, J.D. Vance, as he signed papers accepting the Republican presidential nomination for a third time on Thursday.

First lady Usha Vance stood with First Lady Melania Trump, the president’s daughter Ivanka and son Eric.

Trump’s wife was not on the speaker list for Thursday’s Republican National Convention but made her formal entrance onto the convention grounds afterwards, with upbeat classical music playing.

As you may have seen, Donald Trump concluded the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Thursday by delivering the longest speech in convention history after accepting his party’s request for his third consecutive presidential nomination.

And just five days after a .22-caliber bullet nearly took his life, Trump portrayed himself as a triumphant hero as he recounted his brush with death in Pennsylvania.

The former president, wearing a bandage on his ear from a bite caused during the assassination attempt, told the assembled delegates and supporters he was “not supposed to be here” and that it was only by “the grace of Almighty God” that he was on stage in Wisconsin.

Eric Garcia and Andrew Feinberg We bring you a full report of this epic evening.

Independent Donald Trump was on the grounds of the Republican National Convention on Thursday discussing the assassination attempt on him before a crowd of several thousand people at the Fiserv Center in Milwaukee.

Over four nights at Donald Trump’s nominating convention in Milwaukee, a host of speakers tried to portray one of the most controversial politicians in recent American history as a loving, caring family man, changed by his nearly assassination at Saturday’s rally.

At the start of his speech Thursday night accepting his party’s presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Trump appeared to embark on a carefully orchestrated effort to repackage himself as a more modest, unifying figure more palatable to the swing voters who will be crucial to winning the Nov. 5 election.

Trump Washington Examiner Earlier last week, it was reported that after he was near death, he switched to a speech calling for national unity, abandoning an originally planned speech.

And in the first few minutes of his speech, Trump tried to make that happen, saying he wanted to be a president for all Americans, including Democrats, and to heal our divided country. He detailed last Saturday’s assassination attempt, saying it had deeply affected him, and spoke movingly of the supporter killed by the gunman.

“At a time when politics too often divide us, now is the time to remember that we are all one people,” Trump said.

The new Trump appearance lasted just 30 minutes.

Then the Trump that Americans know so well – a man who delights in demonizing others and hurls bombastic insults – reemerged, undermining the message of unity that the Republican National Committee had painstakingly crafted this week.

For conservative voters long weary of former President Donald Trump’s speeches, his somewhat softer tone as he accepted the Republican nomination on Thursday night came as a welcome relief. “He’s gotten a lot better,” Dave Struthers, a 57-year-old farmer from Collins, Iowa, said after watching the opening of Trump’s speech in the basement of his home. “It’s more like he’s having a conversation with the American people than he’s yelling at them.”

Trump has made a number of controversial statements over the years, including saying shoplifters should be shot on sight, suggesting the US commander in chief should be executed as a traitor and mocking the husband of Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi, who was bludgeoned to death with a hammer by a far-right conspiracy theorist.

But on Thursday night in Milwaukee, wearing a white bandage over his right ear where an assassin’s bullet had lodged days earlier, he spoke in a quieter, more subdued tone, at least in the first part of his speech, as he recounted his experience of the shooting and called for an end to discord, division and demonization in national politics.

Still, many of his talking points were familiar, and his rhetoric grew more pointed as the 93-minute speech progressed: He claimed Democrats were destroying America, derided the charges against him as a partisan witch hunt, warned of an “invasion” on the U.S.-Mexico border and claimed, without evidence, that murder rates in Latin American countries were falling because they were sending killers to the United States.