Tonight in Milwaukee, Donald Trump will formally accept the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. Trump’s big speech on the final day of the RNC follows weeks of other drama in the 2024 presidential race, including the growing pressure within the Democratic Party on Joe Biden to drop out — and last weekend’s assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Below are live updates, commentary, and analysis on tonight’s primetime drama as it unfolds.

It was obviously a reference to Biden:

Tucker: If you think about the presidency.. That is a title that is bestowed by a process of some sort that can be subverted. In the end it does not confer by itself legitimacy. Just because you call yourself the President, it doesn't mean that much inherently. pic.twitter.com/6fTcOcJkNy

An excerpt from my new report from Milwaukee:

The speculation about whether President Joe Biden will stay in the race has accelerated as the Democratic effort to push him out has too. After the announcement of J.D. Vance as Trump’s running mate eradicated the last bit of drama in what was been a smoothly-run and elaborately choreographed convention, the greatest political suspense is a thousand miles away in Delaware beach house where Biden has isolated after testing positive for Covid. “The gossip is who is going to replace him,” says Travis Korson, a longtime Republican consultant.

Read the rest here.

Republicans are going to considerable lengths to paint a different portrait of Trump than the narcissist we all know so well. On Day three, a long presentation by surviving families of service-members killed during the final U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan contrasted Trump’s solicitude for their suffering with Joe Biden’s alleged indifference. Early on the final evening of the convention Trump’s friend and........

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