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:
Luther Ray Abel

The Michigan–Ohio one-upmanship at the RNC continues with Kid Rock jamming like he’s about to take the fight to the Buckeyes with nothing but a fedora and bedazzled cross necklace.

Luther Ray Abel

Milwaukee — Holding a sign that reads ‘Fight the Racist and Reactionary Republican Agenda’ and wearing a shirt depicting Trump in green underdrawers and clown makeup, a protester tells me that he’s standing in heaven and that over the bridge (the RNC) is Hell. A fundamentalist brimstone crier glares at him from behind a folding table out of frame.

Jim Geraghty

I was not expecting the classic deep-voiced narrator to declare, “now we have the Barney Fife of border security.”

Dan McLaughlin

“The Barney Fife of border security.” Now I wonder how many viewers of this video know who Barney Fife was.

Jim Geraghty

Does Donald Trump really need a biographical video at this point in his political career? Is there anybody out there who thinks they needed to hear about how Trump got started in New York City again?

Luther Ray Abel

You don’t need me to tell you that Melania is one gorgeous woman.

Luther Ray Abel

Milwaukee — GOP staffers smoke and scroll Twitter under a speaker blaring the brotherly benediction of Hulk Hogan. Police farther down the block laugh with evident delight as they watch Hogan’s antics through a bar window.

Noah Rothman

Eric Trump promises that, in a second Trump administration, “our Children will have values” and “our children will love god.” A noble goal, though some more secular parents might object to the latter. Nevertheless, objectives that are slightly beyond the reach of any White House.

Luther Ray Abel

Milwaukee — Abandoned signs at the protest park demand justice for D’Vontaye Mitchell, who is alleged to have locked himself in the Hyatt’s women’s room and died while being restrained by hotel security. The toxicology report has yet to be published by the Milwaukee medical examiner.

Philip Klein

“My father built the NYC skyline,” from Eric Trump, is a bit of an overstatement.

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