Elections

2024 Republican National Convention: Live Updates

Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech on Day Four of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis., July 18, 2024. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters)
The 2024 Republican National Convention is underway in Milwaukee, where Donald Trump will accept his party’s presidential nomination just days after surviving an assassination attempt. Follow along for live updates and analysis from the NR team:
Noah Rothman

It’s welcome to hear Trump threaten Hamas, which currently has Americans in its custody and is responsible for killing over 30 Americans on October 7. Hard to understand why that’s so difficult for Biden to do.

Jim Geraghty

This speech has now gone on so long, Election Day was last Tuesday.

Noah Rothman

“It’s nice to get along with someone who has a lot of nuclear weapons,” Trumps says of his personal relationship with North Korean despot Kim Jong-un. “He’d like to see me back, too,” he adds. “I think he misses me.”

Dan McLaughlin

I think we can put to bed the debate over whether Trump is a changed man.

Noah Rothman

“Our military’s not woke. It’s just some of the fools on top that are woke.” – Trump

Ramesh Ponnuru

Someone told Trump, “four more years,” and he misunderstood it.

Jim Geraghty

This speech feels like it was cut down to the length of a Robert Caro book and then staged by director Peter Jackson.

Ramesh Ponnuru

The best-case scenario is that persuadables were watching the decent start to this speech and then tuned out.

Jim Geraghty

Can we bring out Hulk Hogan again?

Noah Rothman

Trump introduces a chart featuring contacts between border crossers and enforcement that he was introducing when he was nearly shot in the head. “I never got to see it,” he says of the chart to an eruption of applause. A smart ad-libbed moment from Trump.

NR Staff comprises members of the National Review editorial and operational teams.
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