RNC 2024
News coverage and analysis of the 2024 Republican National Convention, being held in Milwaukee.
State Republican leaders are urging local candidates to stay the course on issues of crime, economics and corruption to help chip away at Democratic strongholds in the suburbs — and not to rely on a bump from former President Donald Trump.
The shortened session was full of incendiary comments from the ex-president, including claims of undocumented immigrants taking “Black jobs” and the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of “only promoting Indian heritage.”
Some members of the National Association of Black Journalists say Trump’s treatment of Black reporters during his presidential term should disqualify him from participating.
Donald Trump’s speech Thursday begs a comparison to the late radio show host’s famous 1978 “So God made a farmer” speech, which got new life in a 2013 Super Bowl ad.
A Lake County election judge calls out Salvi for implying at the RNC that votes weren’t counted in recent elections. Readers also weigh in on the RNC, the new health insurance law and electric stoves.
In uncharacteristically hushed tones during a speech that later pivoted to his populist agenda, Trump gave an account of the shooting which he said “you will never hear from me a second time because it’s actually too painful to tell.”
“One hundred and 10 days away from this election, we don’t even know who President Trump and JD Vance is going to run against,” said Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno. “We have no idea. It could be your governor.”
The state’s super-minority Republicans are leaving the GOP National Convention energized, and with a lot of confidence.
Luntz said the impact of Sen. JD Vance as former President Donald Trump’s VP pick is “not that much” because those who like Vance “are already giving Trump a hearing.”
By Thursday evening, the largest protest of the convention saw about a thousand people marching through downtown streets. Chicago is expecting a bigger presence.
Don’t let passing political theater make you forget the awesomeness of America.
Vance went heavy on mentions of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio — and his humble Appalachian roots as documented in ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ — on the third night of the Republican National Convention.
Illinois National Republican Committeeman Richard Porter berated the scandal-plagued Florida congressman for trying to embarrass former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during a television interview.
The Illinois Republican had a lot going on at the convention because he wears a lot of hats. He’s a vice chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee — a House GOP political organization — and a member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and the Intelligence Committee.
Conservatives aim to dismantle unions, a plan that is underscored in Project 2025, a reader from Carol Stream writes.
Salvi, who officially becomes the face of the state party on Friday, called on Illinois Republicans to set aside differences “to usher in a new era of Republican victories here in Illinois.”
Community activists in Milwaukee sharply criticized the shooting, which happened at an encampment for unhoused people, calling it unjustified.
Former President Donald Trump took his seat inside the arena for the final two hours of the Republican National Convention program — still wearing a bandage on his right ear from Saturday’s assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally. He watched, and smiled often, as his former rivals pledged their support.
When Trump delivers his acceptance address Thursday night, it will become clear whether the failed assassination attempt in any way changed him.