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With Trump pick, J.D. Vance is first post-9/11 vet on major-party ticket

J.D. Vance, named Monday as the Republican vice presidential running mate of former President Donald Trump, is known as many things: a bestselling author, a Republican senator, a former venture capitalist, a leading voice of conservatism, a onetime Trump critic – and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

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Two days after surviving assassination attempt, Trump gets hero’s welcome at RNC

The party didn’t embrace him in 2016. Covid-19 kept everything virtual in 2020. But on Monday night, two days after an assassination attempt that almost claimed his life, Donald Trump received an adoring hero’s welcome on night one of the Republican National Convention.

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‘The devil came’ but ‘the lion roared’, Sen. Tim Scott says in energizing address to RNC

Until former President Donald J. Trump arrived in the arena Monday, the most applause on the opening night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisc., was reserved for one of his primary opponents, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina.

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Day One: What to expect as Republicans descend on Milwaukee

Former President Donald Trump‘s nomination becomes official this week as tens of thousands of Republicans gather in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with festivities beginning just two days after Trump miraculously survived an assassination attempt that left his right ear slashed and a supporter dead from gunshot wounds.

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Lake: It’s 1968 all over again, the year that left two leaders dead and shattered our politics

For months now, the parallels between 2024 and 1968 have seemed eerie. The Democratic convention is once again in Chicago this August, as it was 56 years ago. The Democratic incumbent, once again, is despised by his left-wing base and seems out of touch with voters. College campuses are once again aflame over a foreign war.

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Poll: Colorado’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention are still backing Joe Biden

They’re still ridin’ with Biden. For now. The Colorado Sun on Thursday polled nearly 20 of the state’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month, and none said they planned on not backing Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee for president.

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