Republican Convention 2024

Zach Weissmueller | 7.19.2024 1:10 PM

The Republican Party has toned down the rhetoric about the deep state and any talk of vengeance against former President Donald Trump's political enemies in this year's Republican National Convention. With Trump in a commanding polling lead following a near-assassination, the convention's theme is "unity."

"Just like our ancestors, we must now come together, rise above past differences. Any disagreements have to be put aside, and go forward united as one people, one nation, pledging allegiance to one great, beautiful—I think it's so beautiful—American flag," Trump said in his closing speech.

The Trump supporters Reason spoke to at the convention weren't particularly heated, and many genuinely seemed to want both sides to tone down their rhetoric after the........

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