Four days to crown Donald Trump as Republican leader: This will be the party’s national convention | USA Elections

The Republican National Convention, which begins this Monday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a “special national security event,” meaning every one of the more than 50,000 accredited participants will attend. Put signature on By the United States Secret Service, which is responsible for planning. In fact, the 2024 convention will be the 77th “special event” coordinated by this agency, with the support of a massive presence of state and local law enforcement. This deployment will be reinforced as a result of…

The Republican National Convention, which begins this Monday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a “special national security event,” meaning every one of the more than 50,000 accredited participants will attend. Put signature on by the United States Secret Service, which is responsible for planning. In fact, the 2024 convention will be the 77th “special event” coordinated by this agency, with the support of a massive presence of state and local law enforcement. This deployment will be strengthened as a result of the attack on Donald Trump on Saturday in Butler (Pennsylvania), when the Republican was lightly wounded by a bullet and had to be removed from the stage where he was rallying.

Unless what happened in Butler forces us to change plans, for four days, until Thursday, 50,000 delegates, representatives, advisers, guests and journalists – a lot of them military, foreign – will meet at the Fiserv Forum, the stadium of the Milwaukee Bucks professional basketball team. But at the call of the media and various interest groups there will also be other parallel forums with guests who will attract attention, such as Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the former president.

2,400 delegates representing the 50 states and six territories of the United States will officially elect the candidates for president and vice president at the convention. There are no surprises on the agenda, since Trump won the vast majority of delegates in the Republican nomination process at the beginning of the year, so his appointment in Milwaukee is above all a process of media pomp and circumstance. If in 2016 and 2020 he faced a lot of internal criticism, now the party pays him full tribute, as shown by the fact that registered voters receive mail from the fundraising team with the ticket Trump National Committee The leadership of the Republican National Committee in Washington was confirmed.

That is why the main attraction will be his coronation as presidential candidate, with a speech scheduled for July 18 on the last night of the convention; an event that will be attended by his wife Melania, who has been absent for almost the entire campaign, and most likely his youngest son, Barron, who has already bathed in the crowd there. The vice presidential candidate, whose name will be announced during the convention, will address the attendees on Wednesday, July 17.

Milwaukee, with 562,000 residents, is the largest city in Wisconsin, one of seven swing states that could determine the final outcome of the November elections. The Republicans’ decision to hold the convention in Wisconsin, which has chosen the winning candidate nationally in the past four elections, is not a coincidence. President Joe Biden won the state by less than one percentage point in 2020, and voting intention polls show a very close contest between him and Trump in November.

The Republican candidate called Milwaukee a “terrible city” in a meeting with Republican lawmakers last month. His campaign spokesmen immediately justified his words, assuring that he was probably referring to problems with crime and election fraud. Again with unfounded reasoning, since civic insecurity has decreased in Milwaukee according to all indicators – as in the main cities of the United States – and there is no evidence of corruption in the 2020 elections and the 2022 midterm elections.

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Blockbuster Sets

Amid the tide of red, white and blue balloons, thunderous music and choreography worthy of a blockbuster, Trump’s enthronement as the presidential candidate is also a golden opportunity in media terms to capture the nation’s attention, get free publicity and draw the participation of the doubtful and undecided people, who will be crucial to the final outcome in November.

It will also be a programmatic moment in which veterans such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – who left the nomination race in January – and the party’s rising stars will try to stand out with their speeches, some of them televised. The Republican National Committee has announced thematic blocks for each day. Monday, when the biggest attendance is expected, will be dedicated to Trump’s economic plans, focused on eliminating the so-called Bidenomics (The former president is particularly focused on “ending the electric car mandate (promotion)” by the Democratic administration.) He also assures, without specifying, that his plan to deport millions of irregular immigrants will reduce inflation.

On Tuesday, the border will be in the spotlight, particularly with speeches on the families of those allegedly killed by undocumented immigrants, in a false equivalency — immigration equals crime — that troubles Trump but the data insists he denies. Wednesday is National Security Day, when delegates and the public will hear arguments about Biden’s “weakness” and “failure” as the country’s commander in chief. Thursday will be an exercise in narcissism: Trump himself, embodied in his promise to “make America great again” (Make America Great Againin its acronym MAGA, Backbone of the Republican Revolution).

Invitees, accused and absent

Among the conference speakers will be entrepreneur David Sacks, who has an influential podcast all in (Everyone Inside) for which he interviewed Trump a few weeks ago. Sachs is also known for his proximity to Elon Musk and billionaire Peter Thiel, who gave a speech at the 2016 Republican convention, the year Trump entered the White House. Union leader Sean O’Brien, head of the Teamsters (1.3 million members), will also participate, an intervention that has been highly criticized by the organization’s leadership and that also opens a crack in the unionist front of support for Joe Biden.

Among those attending the convention are some defendants, such as three members of the Arizona delegation, whom a judge had to grant special permission to participate as false electors in a conspiracy to overturn the result of the 2020 election. Also notable absent will be the half-dozen senators who have refrained from supporting Trump in the primary process, including Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney and Rand Paul. The majority have cited commitments outside their state or country to excuse themselves. “I’m busy,” Paul said briefly. But the most notable absence will be that of Nikki Haley, who was Trump’s last opponent in the primaries until she resigned in March. However, according to sources in her team, the pre-candidate will ask her 97 delegates to support Trump.

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