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Who is J.D. Vance, Trump’s running mate?
Republican vice president pick came to prominence with his memoir ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ about growing up in the Midwest
By The Associated Press Jul 17, 2024
MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump ‘s running mate J.D. Vance will introduce himself to a national audience Wednesday as he addresses the Republican National Convention.
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Who is J.D. Vance, Trump’s running mate?
Republican vice president pick came to prominence with his memoir ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ about growing up in the Midwest
MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump ‘s running mate J.D. Vance will introduce himself to a national audience Wednesday as he addresses the Republican National Convention.
The Ohio senator’s headlining address will be his first speech as the Republican vice-presidential nominee. He’s a relative political unknown who rapidly morphed in recent years from a severe critic of Trump to an aggressive defender.
Vance, 39, is the first millennial to join a major party ticket, he joins the race when questions about the age of the men at the top of the tickets — 78-year-old Trump and 81-year-old President Joe Biden — have been high on the list of voters’ concerns.
Trump, as the presidential nominee, is expected to speak Thursday, the convention’s final night. Here’s what to know about J.D. Vance.
J.D. stands for James Donald
According to his Senate bio, Vance was born in Middletown, Ohio, on Aug. 2, 1984, as James Donald Bowman.
He’s said his childhood was turbulent. and he was raised mostly by his grandparents. He has called his grandmother was his ”saving grace” on his Senate page.
He enlisted in the Marines at the age of 19 and served in Iraq. After returning home, he graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in political science and later graduated from Yale Law School. After law school, Vance joined Mithril Capital, a venture capital firm.
In 2016, he published the memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which explores his blue-collar roots. It made him a national name and was seen as a window into some of the cultural forces that propelled Trump to the White House.
The book earned Vance a reputation as someone who could help explain the maverick New York businessman’s appeal in middle America, especially among the working class, rural white voters who helped Trump win the presidency.
“Hillbilly Elegy” also introduced Vance to the Trump family. Donald Trump Jr. loved the book and knew of Vance when he went to launch his political career. The two hit it off and have remained friends.
While the book was a bestseller, it was also criticized for sometimes oversimplifying rural life and ignoring the role of racism in modern politics.
Ron Howard made it into a 2020 movie starring Amy Adams as Vance’s mother and Glenn Close as his beloved “Mamaw.”
After the success of the book and two years in California, he decided to move back to Ohio to launch a nonprofit that he said would aim to develop opioid addiction treatments that might be “scaled nationally.”
“For two years, I’d lived in Silicon Valley, surrounded by other highly educated transplants with seemingly perfect lives,” he wrote in a New York Times essay that also ran in The Dallas Morning News. “It’s jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I’ve suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country.
He also took to the lecture circuit and was a favored guest at Republican Lincoln Day dinners where his personal story — including the hardship Vance endured because of his mother’s drug addiction — resonated.
Vance’s appearances were opportunities to sell his ideas for fixing the country and helped lay the groundwork for entering politics in 2021.
Vance’s changed stance on Trump
Vance, though, was a harsh critic of Trump at the time, referring to him in interviews as “noxious” and someone who “is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” He even once referred to him as “America’s Hitler.”
In 2022 Vance decided to run for public office for the first time — the U.S. Senate — and he began warming to Trump.
Vance has since said he was wrong and, like most of his rivals, tied himself to the former president, eagerly courting his endorsement and running on his “America First” platform, underscoring the extent to which the GOP has transformed in his image.
Vance won Trump’s endorsement, which helped him secure the party’s nomination for the Ohio Senate seat.
Vance has become one of Trump’s most aggressive defenders as the former president has sought the office a third time, sparring with journalists, campaigning on his behalf and appearing with the candidate at his trial in New York.
In his first interview after accepting Trump’s offer to join the ticket, Vance sought to explain his metamorphosis. Vance said in a Fox News Channel interview Monday that Trump was a great president and changed his mind.
“I think he changed the minds of a lot of Americans, because again he delivered that peace and prosperity,” Vance said.
Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s son and a close friend of Vance, is also slated to speak Wednesday, according to a person close to Trump Jr. who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official speaking schedule has yet to be released.
Vance is married to a lawyer who was a Supreme Court clerk
Vance met his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, at Yale, where she received both her undergraduate and law degrees. She spent a year clerking for future Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he served as an appeals court judge in Washington, followed by a year as a law clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts.
She had been a trial lawyer for the Munger, Tolles and Olson law firm. Her law firm announced Monday that she had left the firm.
“Usha has been an excellent lawyer and colleague, and we
Vance’s appearances were opportunities to sell his idea
She had been a trial lawyer for the Munger, Tolles and Olson law firm. Her law firm announced Monday that she had left the firm.
“Usha has been an excellent lawyer and colleague, and we thank her for her years of work and wish her the best in her future career,” Munger, Tolles & Olson said in a statement.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance arrive on the floor during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum, Monday, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee.
In his memoir, Vance credited part of his success and happiness
“Even at my best, I’m a delayed explosion—I can be defused, but only with skill and precision,” Vance wrote. “It’s not just that I’ve learned to control myself but that Usha has learned how to manage me.”
The couple live in Cincinnati, and have three children: Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel. Outside of work, she served on the Cincinnati Symphony Board of Directors from September 2020 to July 2023.
What to expect from Vance’s Republican National Convention speech
Beyond Vance’s prime-time speech, the Republican Party intends to focus on a theme of American global strength.
Republicans contend that the country has become a “global laughingstock” under Biden’s watch and are expected to make a case Wednesday hitting on their theme to “Make America Strong Once Again.” That’s expected to include Trump’s “America First” foreign policy that redefined relationships with some allies and adversaries.
Democrats have sharply criticized Trump — and Vance — for questioning U.S. support for Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion.
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The Ukraine-Israel foreign-policy fairy tale
As an expanded NATO turns 75, concern about the Jewish state’s security doesn’t neatly fit into the mindset of an alliance solely focused right now on the war in Ukraine.
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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) speaks to reporters room after the CNN Presidential Debate between U.S. President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, at the McCamish Pavilion on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus in Atlanta on June 27, 2024
This week, the United States is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with a gala summit in Washington, D.C., that will be attended by a host of world leaders. Among them will be Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, who hopes to use his presence there to remind the Americans and the European nations represented at the gathering about the threat to the West from Iranian terrorism and missile development, as well as its nuclear ambitions.
He’s not likely to have much success. And that’s not just because he’s from a non-NATO member state overshadowed by representatives of the expanded roster of the alliance that now numbers 30 European nations, plus the United States and Canada. The problem for Israel in this conclave is that since Russia illegally invaded Ukraine in February 2022, NATO has become almost solely focused on the brutal war there, which continues to consume Western aid and arms with no end in sight. Despite not being formally a combatant, the alliance has taken a position of strong support for Ukraine and imposed sanctions on the Russian regime of Vladimir Putin, though, to date, those economic measures seem to have hurt the West as much as Moscow.
Still, for a lot of American supporters of Israel, the NATO anniversary is an excuse to assert that the campaign being waged against Kyiv by Moscow is part of the same struggle as the Iranian-backed war on the Jewish state by Tehran’s Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthi allies. In this formulation, the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel were just another incident in a global conflict that amounts to a second Cold War that matches an axis of China, Russia and Iran against the West. They’d like the cheerleading for NATO to somehow morph into a broader consensus on behalf of efforts to bolster Israel’s defensive efforts against its enemies.
A new ‘Cold War’ against a different Axis
That’s the same argument made by the Biden administration and some of its establishment Republican allies who tied funding for Israel’s efforts to fight Hamas since Oct. 7 to the far larger outlays to Ukraine. They added lesser amounts aimed at bolstering Taiwan as well as some “humanitarian” aid to Palestinians in Gaza that will almost certainly be stolen by Hamas.
The problem with this formulation is twofold.
One is that Russia’s designs on Ukraine have nothing to do with the Islamist war on the existence of a Jewish state.
The former is a struggle rooted in Russia’s quest to recover its past glories as a Tsarist and Soviet empire, coupled with its troubles coming to terms with a Europe that has united against it even before the current war was launched. The latter is an entirely separate conflict in which Islamist intolerance for the idea of Israel has merged with Western leftist intersectional ideologies about race driven by an international movement rooted in antisemitism.
There is some overlap between the two, as well as China’s quest for world domination since Russia depends on Beijing’s support, and is willing to cheer on Iran and its allies to discomfit the West. But the notion that the same international alliance rallying to the side of the Ukrainians is willing to be as supportive of Israel is simply untrue. Assuming that all of the nations of the West or even the Democratic Party would see the situation this way—as the events of the last nine months since the largest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust have made painfully obvious—is an incorrect assumption.
But there is another equally important problem. Those seeking to align Israel’s existential struggle with that of Ukraine and worries about China need to take into account the brutal facts of life about American foreign policy in the 21st century.
No longer the ‘arsenal of democracy’
The United States may want to think of itself as being, as it was in the last century, the “arsenal of democracy.” Yet as a result of the globalization of the world economy and the rise of free trade agreements in the 1990s and the first years of the 21st century, America’s manufacturing capabilities—arms, ammunition, and military-related products and technology among them—have been reduced to a shadow of what they once were.
This led to a massive decrease in the cost of most consumer goods and created a great deal of wealth both for Americans and those living elsewhere. It also has meant an equally massive loss of manufacturing jobs overseas and harmed working-class Americans in a host of ways that are rarely felt by those in the credentialed elites who have profited from this turn of events. The American working class was left behind by not just Wall Street and manufacturers who told them to get jobs in service industries that are either low-paying or meant for those with college degrees that they lack. They’re also shortchanged by an educational system that has contempt for skilled trades and seeks to funnel everyone, whether qualified or not, into higher education. That has created a windfall for colleges and universities selling increasingly worthless degrees tainted by woke ideology at exorbitant prices that are subsidized by the government while doing the country little good.
Along with the social cost of globalization is an inconvenient fact that those who think the United States can simultaneously indefinitely fund and supply a war in Ukraine, as well as maintain Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge over its foes—not to mention any hope of aiding Taiwan’s efforts to defend its independence against China—are ignoring.
Simply put, the United States lacks the capability or the workforce to do all three things. Absent a major shift in American trade, industrial, educational and economic policies that would displease Wall Street (and which most of the same people who are gung-ho supporters of Ukraine also oppose), there is little or no chance that it will be able to do so for the foreseeable future. The amount of munitions that have been poured into the furnace of a World War I-style trench warfare stalemate in Eastern Ukraine has drained America’s military resources and made it difficult for Israel to obtain the arms it needs, even if the Biden administration were not slow-walking deliveries to pressure its government to make concessions to Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
Post-Soviet delusions
This notion of a world neatly divided into an axis of evil and allies united by democracy appeals to a wide variety of people, including traditional conservative foreign-policy hawks, supporters of Israel and those who have come to believe that Putin is the new Hitler. That became especially true following the spread of the myth about Russian interference deciding the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It all harkens back to the simpler world of the Cold War in which Americans could, with good reason, regard all of their foreign-policy efforts as part of a zero-sum game. The sole goal then was defeating Soviet communism, which was as much an ideological struggle for global domination as one focused on Russia’s quest for an expanded empire.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, American foreign policy has floundered. It was first fixated on a “peace dividend” and delusions about the “end of history.” The unrealistic fantasies of the Bill Clinton administration gave way to the post-9/11 world in which the George W. Bush administration had to deal with Islamist terrorists that saw themselves at war with the West. Focusing on that threat was necessary, but it spawned a different delusion about the ability of the United States to spread democracy abroad, which came to grief in failed generational wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That, in turn, gave way to the very different delusions entertained by the Barack Obama administration and then that of Joe Biden (interrupted by four years of a more realistic approach by Donald Trump that was abandoned after his defeat in 2020) in which policymakers imagined that they could appease Russia, and especially Iran, to the point where they could end America’s foreign conflicts.
The war in Ukraine, however, has given rise to a belief in a new unified theory of foreign policy, with many supporters of Israel seeing it as an opportunity to tie concerns for Israel’s security to broader worries about the influence of China and the revival of Russian aggression.
Living in the past
The creation of NATO and the Marshall Plan (named for U.S. Secretary of State Gen. George Marshall) were the crowning achievements of the administration of President Harry S. Truman. They set in motion the events that would first frustrate the imperial ambitions of Joseph Stalin’s Soviet regime, and then lead to the collapse of Russia as a superpower and the defeat of international communism 40 years later under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan.
While the war in Ukraine has shown that NATO still has its uses, its expansion in the last decades has transformed it from an initial conception in which America would essentially defend the nations of a war-torn continent that needed to be rebuilt. In its current configuration, in which the United States still bears the lion’s share of the costs of defending wealthy nations that have profited enormously from not having to spend much on their own militaries, it no longer makes much sense. Indeed, if one looks at NATO costs in this way, it’s clear that Western Europe has always gotten far more money in U.S. aid than Israel has ever received.
Trump enraged the foreign-policy establishment by pointing out that Europeans could not go on being freeloaders. He was correct, as even some on the left are now prepared to admit. But as this week’s show in Washington illustrates, NATO is still something of a sacred cow and the establishment does not tolerate any deviation from the notion that it may not be criticized or that it must change.
Yet the real concern here is that by blindly going along with the conventional wisdom being peddled by Washington insiders about NATO and the Ukraine war, supporters of Israel are making a huge mistake.
While Americans should support Ukraine’s independence, the notion that it makes sense to persist in giving Kyiv a blank check while not pushing for a negotiated end to the war with Russia is unsustainable. Those who want to link Ukraine and Israel say it’s as unfair to make Ukraine understand that it cannot get back Crimea and the Donbas, which Putin invaded in 2014 (when virtually no one in the United States cared about Ukraine), and agree to a peace settlement on those terms as it would be to force Israel to make further attempts to trade land for peace. Yet the two situations are not alike. Ukraine is far larger than Israel, not truly democratic and there is no international movement bent on its destruction based on Islamist doctrine and leftist ideological reasons. With continued Western support, Ukraine can survive and thrive alongside Russia now that the standoff in the war has shown that neither side can get everything it wants. Israel, on the other hand, knows it cannot rely on international guarantees or aid to defend it if it makes suicidal concessions for the sake of pleasing the West.
More to the point, supporters of Israel need to be open to the arguments of those Americans who are pointing out that the United States needs to pick and choose its battles, and that backing Israel while seeking to end the Ukraine war is the only sensible and achievable course of action.
A realistic foreign policy
That was the conceit of a major foreign policy address of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) back in May, which deserves renewed scrutiny now that he’s reportedly on Trump’s shortlist for the Republican vice-presidential nomination.
Vance is viewed as among the leaders of what critics term an isolationist “America first” wing of the GOP. But he sketched out a view of the world that was far from isolationist and, in fact, called for an aggressive stance towards Iran and China. That he chose to deliver it at a gathering organized by the Quincy Institute, a think tank that is hostile to Israel, was significant because he laid out a vision of American interests in which Israeli security was prioritized. That must have discomfited his hosts as much as it should reassure friends of Israel.
Above all, Vance has acknowledged the truth about America’s limited capabilities. Saying that “foreign policy is not a nursery rhyme,” he said that the war in Ukraine had to be settled with a compromise while Israel should be helped to defeat its Hamas enemies. That’s correct, in part, because not every conflict is over something important to the United States.
Insisting that Ukraine should have the territories it lost in 2014—and which it has no chance of ever getting back, no matter how many hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are poured into the effort—isn’t a vital American interest. And that is true no matter how much some Americans love morbid fantasies about a weak contemporary Russia somehow resembling the far more powerful Soviet Union of 40 years ago.
By contrast, defending the existence of Israel and thwarting the ambitions of Iran is a vital American interest. And choosing between the two is all the more necessary since the foreign-policy establishment is writing checks to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan—not to mention the needs of the U.S. military—that current American resources can’t cash.
If America is to overcome the challenges of China and Iran in the future, then it’s going to have to involve economic changes that will return it to a position that can make it an arsenal for democracy. In the meantime, supporters of Israel need to consider that embracing the sort of realistic approach advocated by Vance will be far more in their long-term interests as well as those of America, regardless of which party wins the White House in November. An attempt to piggyback Israeli security onto a NATO celebration and a Ukraine war to which the Jewish state’s interests are tangential will never work in the long run. It will only lead to further disappointments where Israel’s needs are always treated as secondary to those of Kyiv and European nations that are more interested in appeasing antisemites than in solidarity with a democratic Jewish state.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him @jonathans_tobin.
When Will JD Vance Speak Tonight?
Sen. JD Vance attending the first night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee
Trump's Running Mate JD Vance Set to Make Debut at RNC
The focus of the RNC's third day will be on the Israel-Hamas war and foreign affairs.
July 17, 2024
JD Vance is expected to give a primetime address tonight sometime between 10:30 and 11 p.m. ET, two days after Donald Trump picked him as his running mate. Vance will follow his wife, Usha Vance, who was slated to speak immediately before him. Wednesday’s theme at the RNC is “Make America Strong Once Again.”
Vance’s speech will cap off an evening of addresses from prominent Republicans including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.), former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R., Fla.) and Donald Trump Jr.
JD Vance will give first major address as Trump’s running mate amid day’s theme of ‘Make America Strong Once Again’
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JD Vance will give his first major address as Donald Trump’s running mate on Wednesday and Republicans will turn their focus to foreign policy during the third day of the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Vance will be preceded by Donald Trump Jr and introduced by his wife, Usha. The theme for Wednesday – “Make America Strong Once Again” – comes amid internal divisions on how to handle the war in Ukraine. Earlier this year, the House speaker, Mike Johnson, only narrowly passed a bill to provide additional funding for Ukraine over the loud objection of some Republicans.
Other speakers reportedly include the former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who was released from prison on Wednesday after serving a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena.
The North Dakota governor, Doug Burgum, who was a top contender to be Trump’s running mate, the representatives Matt Gaetz, Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson as well as the former House speaker Newt Gingrich are also expected to address the convention.
The day will also offer an opportunity for Republicans to attack Joe Biden over his handling of the US military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and the war between Israel and Gaza.
Some Republicans have already started attacking Biden’s foreign policy.
“When Donald Trump was president, Putin did nothing. No invasions. No wars. That was no accident. Putin didn’t attack Ukraine because he knew Donald Trump was tough. A strong president doesn’t start wars. A strong president prevents wars,” Nikki Haley, said on Tuesday.
The focus on foreign policy comes after Republicans addressed crime and safety Tuesday and on the economy on Monday.
The four-day event has marked a full-on coronation for Trump, who has made his dramatic return to the campaign trail after surviving an assassination attempt over the weekend.
It has also underscored the firm hold he has on the party.
Haley and the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, who challenged Trump for the GOP nomination, both unequivocally backed Trump in speeches from the convention floor on Tuesday. “You don’t have to agree with Trump 100% of the time to vote for him. Take it from me. I haven’t always agreed with President Trump. But we agree more often than we disagree,” Haley said in her remarks.
Other speakers on Tuesday highlighted crimes they blamed on the Biden administration. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, for example, highlighted Americans who had been killed by undocumented people. Madeline Brame, one of several ordinary Americans picked to speak during the convention, blamed Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg for not prosecuting her son’s killer.
Other speakers on Tuesday included the Arkansas governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Marco Rubio, Elise Stefanik, Ben Carson, Rick Scott and Tom Cotton
With his choice of Vance as VP, Trump doubles down on his version of isolation
MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump’s pick for running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, will take center stage Wednesday as the focus turns to foreign policy on the third day of the Republican National Convention.
Trump has made it very clear that, if elected, he wants to shake up U.S. foreign policy even more than he did in his first term.
With Vance as his running mate, the two men share a vision on the direction of an evolving Republican party. They have argued that many foreign conflicts have failed to serve U.S. interests.
The choice of the 39-year-old Ohio senator and former Marine already has allies on edge as well as many moderate Republicans who are concerned by how Trump has pulled the Republican party away from its hawkish roots on foreign policy.
Vance has argued against aid for Ukraine
A champion of Trump’s version of populism, Vance has fought against aid for Ukraine, supported talks with Moscow and argues the U.S. needs to compete more with China.
He flew to Germany this February where he delivered what he called a “wake-up call” to Europe about their own security.
“There are a lot of bad guys all over the world, and I’m much more interested in some of the problems in East Asia right now than I am in Europe,” Vance said at the Munich Security Conference.
For years, Trump’s been arguing that American allies have been taking advantage of U.S. taxpayers. He has looked to disentangle the United States from world conflicts while focusing on domestic challenges.
Vance is being watched very closely in diplomatic circles as an heir to Trump’s particular brand of isolationism for years to come.
Trump blasted President Biden and his foreign policy priorities, including support for the Paris climate accord.
“One of the most unfair deals,” Trump said during a speech last month at the Turning Point Action Conference in Michigan. “Sounds good, but it was a disaster. And every other globalist disaster that sucked the life and wealth and blood out of our country, and that's what it was doing. But after decades of Joe Biden putting America last, Michigan finally got a president who put
Trump is selective in who he engages with and how
While Trump and Vance promote an America First approach, that doesn’t translate to blanket isolationism.
He has conflicting approaches to the foreign policy challenges of the day. He is selective in who he decides to engage with in foreign affairs – and how.
While Trump’s critical of western allies, he’s cozied up to authoritarian leaders, like Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
While NATO leaders were finishing up meetings with Biden during the NATO summit in Washington, D.C., Orbán flew down to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to meet with the former president and discussed the war in Ukraine.
“We discussed ways to make #peace,” Orban wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “The good news of the day: he’s going to solve it!”
While Trump and his Republican allies have raised concerns about U.S. support for Ukraine, they’ve also pledged increased support for Israel in its war in Gaza.
But Trump’s approach to the wars, as well as his pick for VP, reflect how sharply the Republican party has shifted away from its long-standing support for a muscular foreign policy.
America first.”
2024 Republican National Convention begins today on heels of Trump assassination attempt. Here's what to know. - CBS News
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2024 Republican National Convention begins today on heels of Trump assassination attempt. Here's what to know.
By Caitlin Yilek July 15, 2024 / 5:23 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Former President Donald Trump will officially become the GOP nominee for president at this week's Republican National Convention, days after surviving an assassination attempt.
The four-day event kicks off on Monday, just two days after a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, grazing Trump's ear. Rally attendee Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed, and two others, identified as 57-year-old David Dutch and 74-year-old James Copenhaver, were wounded. The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
The attack has put federal, state and local law enforcement officials on even higher alert heading into the convention. Changes to the security measures were being planned after Trump was wounded at the Pennsylvania campaign rally.
What security measures are in place for the RNC?
Multiple law enforcement officials told CBS News that planning is underway to expand the perimeter at the RNC and create buffer zones around the events. The gunman at Saturday's rally opened fire with an AR-style rifle outside the security perimeter set up by Secret Service, law enforcement sources said.
The FBI, Secret Service and local law enforcement agencies sent a joint threat assessment to law enforcement officials in anticipation of the convention calling for heightened awareness. No credible or specific threat was identified in the assessment, a law enforcement source told CBS News.
What happens at the RNC and how does it work?
About 2,400 delegates from around the country will come together to officially nominate Trump during a roll call vote Monday.
States announce how many delegates they will be delivering to each candidate. State party rules affect how delegates may vote during the convention. Typically, a candidate's home state delegation will push him or her across the threshold to officially secure the nomination. In Trump's case, it would be Florida.
But the vote is considered a formality because Trump clinched the nomination in March, amassing the 1,215, delegates needed to become the presumptive nominee. Trump earned 2,243 delegates by the end of the primary process, according to CBS News' estimate.
Trump is expected to officially accept the nomination for the third time since 2016 in a speech on Thursday night.
Besides the pageantry, the Republican Party will adopt a new platform that softens its language on abortion and says the issue should be determined by individual states. The platform also proposes building a missile defense shield over the U.S. and promises tax cuts and mass deportations of people who are in the U.S. illegally.
Where is the Republican convention taking place?
This year's convention is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the Fiserv Forum arena.
Milwaukee is considered a Democratic stronghold, but hosting the convention in Wisconsin, a battleground state, puts the Republican Party's message in front of key voters.
Republicans selected the location in 2022 after former President Donald Trump narrowly won Wisconsin in 2016 before losing it to President Biden in 2020 by a similar margin.
When does the RNC start and end?
The convention begins Monday and ends Thursday. The first official session is scheduled to begin Monday at 12:45 p.m. local time. The marquee speeches will be delivered in the evening on each day.
Who will speak at the 2024 RNC?
The RNC and the Trump campaign released a list of speakers for this week's convention on Saturday, which is made up of lawmakers, television personalities and members of the former president's family, among others.
Names like Tucker Carlson, Vivek Ramaswamy and House Speaker Mike Johnson are on the list, which also includes a number of Republican senators, Senate candidates and representatives.
Trump's wife, Melania Trump, is not among the speakers, nor is his daughter Ivanka Trump. The former president's two older sons are slated to speak, along with his son Donald Jr.'s fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Lara Trump, who is married to Eric Trump.
Lara Trump, who is also co-chair of the Republican National Committee, teased the lineup earlier this week, saying there will be "unlikely people, celebrities who maybe you've never heard from, who support Donald Trump and support conservative values and the Republican Party." Among the list are country music stars Lee Greenwood and Chris Janson, along with rapper Amber Rose.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and Florida Rep. Byron Donalds will have prime-time spots, a source with knowledge of the convention's planning told CBS News.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will also give a speech. DeSantis, once considered Trump's most daunting challenger for the nomination, dropped out of the primary in January and quickly endorsed the former president.
Nikki Haley, another Trump primary rival, has also accepted an invitation to speak at the convention, two sources familiar with the planning told CBS News. The development was a reversal from an earlier statement from her spokesperson, who said "she was not invited, and she's fine with that." Before the convention, Haley released the several dozen delegates she won in the primaries and encouraged them to vote for Trump, in the interest of party unity.
Of course, remarks from Trump and his vice presidential pick are the most anticipated. Trump announced Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his running mate on Monday.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and North Dakota Gov. Burgum, who were on the shortlist to be Trump's running mate, are also slated to speak at the convention.
When is Trump speaking at the RNC?
Typically, the vice presidential nominee speaks Wednesday, and the presidential nominee addresses the convention on Thursday, the last night of the convention. Trump said in a social media post Sunday that after the assassination attempt, he considered delaying his travel to the RNC by two days but instead "decided that I cannot allow a 'shooter,' or potential assassin, to force change to scheduling, or anything else."
He arrived in Milwaukee late Sunday afternoon and may speak on more than one occasion during the convention.
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How to watch the 2024 RNC without cable
CBS News 24/7 will have coverage of the convention throughout the day and will stream each night's keynote speeches, and can also be viewed on your mobile or streaming device.
Fin Gómez, Major Garrett and Caitlin Huey-Burns contributed reporting.
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Trump safe after rally shooting, says bullet struck his ear; gunman and audience member dead - CBS News
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Former President Donald Trump was rushed offstage after shots were fired in an assassination attempt at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Saturday evening. Trump said in a social media post that he was injured when a bullet pierced the upper part of his right ear.
The Secret Service says Trump is now safe, and he was checked at a local hospital before leaving a few hours later. Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., told CBS News' Robert Costa that his father is "doing fine."
The U.S. Secret Service confirmed two people are dead — the gunman and an audience member, who has been identified as Corey Comperatore. He was shot while attempting to shield his family from the gunfire, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said at a news conference Sunday. Two spectators were also critically injured.
The gunman was fatally shot by a Secret Service sniper, authorities said.
Reporters heard numerous shots and Secret Service rushed the stage. Video captured by CBS News shows Trump touching his ear and then crouching to the ground. Some blood could be seen on his face.
Trump was taken away in a motorcade. He held up a fist as he got into the SUV.
In a statement early Sunday morning, the FBI identified the shooter as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, which is located just outside Pittsburgh.
In a news conference late Saturday night, Kevin Rojek, special agent in charge of the FBI Pittsburgh office, refused to speculate on a possible motive, but said authorities are investigating the shooting as an "attempted assassination."
A law enforcement official said early Sunday that there are no foreign terrorism ties known at this time and the suspect was not on the radar of law enforcement, although they are still running his name down.
According to multiple law enforcement officials, the gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic AR-style rifle. ATF is tracing the weapon. The gunman was on top of a shed outside the security perimeter set up by the Secret Service, and opened fire from about 400 feet away, law enforcement sources said.
Law enforcement sources told CBS News on Sunday that suspicious devices were found in the gunman's vehicle. The gunman also had with him a piece of commercially available equipment that appeared capable of initiating the devices. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report.
Bomb technicians called to the scene were involved in securing and investigating the devices.
Rojek called it "surprising" that the gunman was able to fire multiple shots. When pressed by reporters, he refused to provide details on the circumstances surrounding the shooting or the FBI's investigation. He disclosed that "there was identification of suspicious packages around where the shooter was, and so we deployed, in an abundance of caution, bomb assets, to make sure those were cleared for investigators."
He did not say if any such packages were found.
"Right now, we're tracking down all leads, and doing all interviews, and tracking anything that we can regarding suspicious locations, vehicles ... that's all related to this event, but I can't confirm or deny anything beyond that," Rojek said.
The FBI is leading the investigation, with assistance from the Secret Service and state and local agencies.
"It is incredibly difficult to have a venue open to the public, and to secure that against any possible threat, against a very determined attacker," Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said of the Secret Service, "That's a huge lift to try and do it." No Secret Service officials attended Saturday night's news conference.
Earlier in the evening, Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement that the "Secret Service has implemented protective measures and the former President is safe." The agency released more details in a second statement:
"During Former President Trump's campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on the evening of July 13 at approximately 6:15 p.m., a suspected shooter fired multiple shots toward the stage from an elevated position outside of the rally venue. U.S. Secret Service personnel neutralized the shooter, who is now deceased. U.S. Secret Service quickly responded with protective measures and Former President Trump is safe. One spectator was killed, and two spectators were critically injured. This incident is currently under investigation. and the Secret Service has notified the FBI."
The Trump campaign said in a statement, "President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act. He is fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility." He was released from the hospital later Saturday night.
Former President Donald Trump is shown covered by U.S. Secret Service agents after an incident during his rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pa.
In a post on Truth Social Saturday night, Trump elaborated on what happened and described his injuries:
"I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"
Rep. Mike Kelley of Pennsylvania, who was standing backstage watching Trump speak, told CBS News, "I believe a lady who was next to me was hit, other people were hit."
Former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents after apparent shots were fired at his campaign rally, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa.
Several witnesses told CBS Pittsburgh reporters they saw the gunman on the roof right before the shooting started and tried to alert officers.
Another witness, Madison Brooks, told CBS News, "I was about five feet away from him, like I was within sight distance, like I was so close, and all of a sudden I hear these four shots and everybody is screaming 'drop,' and you can see the blood like splatter on his face. The Secret Service just barricades him. It was just so scary."
This image shows the location of the shooting site, about 400 feet from the stage, at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024.
CBS News campaign reporter Jake Rosen interviewed an eyewitness with blood on his shirt who said he was an ER physician and had performed CPR on a victim with a head wound.
"I heard the shots. I thought it was firecrackers to begin with," he said. "Somebody over there was screaming he's been shot. He's been shot. So I made my way over. I said, I'm an emergency department physician. Let me help you. The guy has spun around was jammed between the benches. He had a head shot here. There's lots of blood and he had brain matter there."
The man said a helicopter was coming for the victim.
CBS Pittsburgh reporter Ricky Sayer reported a medivac helicopter landed at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and an individual was quickly brought into the hospital. The person's identity and condition are not known. A small number of police were seen outside the hospital, and another helicopter landed with a transport a short time later. This followed a black SUV with police lights pulling up next to the helipad.
The hospital later confirmed that it was treating two critically injured patients.
Former President Donald Trump is covered by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa.
President Biden addressed the nation at about 8:15 p.m. ET.
"There is no place for this kind of violence in America. It's sick. It's sick," Mr. Biden said. "It's one of the reasons why we have to unite this country. We cannot allow for this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this."
A reporter asked the president if he believes this was an assassination attempt.
"I don't know enough to — I have an opinion, but I don't have any facts," Mr. Biden said. "So I want to make sure I have all the facts before I make any more comments."
The White House confirmed late Saturday night that Mr. Biden and Trump spoke by phone, but did not detail what was said on the call. A Trump adviser also confirmed the two spoke.
Trump's motorcade departed Butler Memorial Hospital a little before 9:30 p.m. local time, two sources confirmed to CBS News, and he left the area under Secret Service protection. Video posted by a Trump aide to social media early Sunday morning showed him deboarding after his plane landed at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. Prior to the shooting incident, he had been scheduled to travel to his estate in Bedminster, New Jersey, before departing for Milwaukee for the convention.
In a statement issued earlier, Mr. Biden said, "I'm grateful to hear that he's safe and doing well. I'm praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information. Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. There's no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it."
Attendees scatter after gunfire rang out during a Trump campaign rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pa.
A Biden campaign official says the campaign is pausing all outbound communications and working to take down their television ads as quickly as possible.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the House will conduct "a full investigation of the tragic events today. The American people deserve to know the truth. We will have Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and other appropriate officials from DHS and the FBI appear for a hearing before our committees ASAP."
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer posted a letter inviting Cheatle to testify at a hearing on Monday, July 22.
Numerous political figures on both sides of the aisle quickly condemned the attack.
Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement, "Doug and I are relieved that he is not seriously injured. We are praying for him, his family, and all those who have been injured and impacted by this senseless shooting. ... Violence such as this has no place in our nation. We must all condemn this abhorrent act and do our part to ensure that it does not lead to more violence."
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted, "As one whose family has been the victim of political violence, I know firsthand that political violence of any kind has no place in our society. I thank God that former President Trump is safe. As we learn more details about this horrifying incident, let us pray that all those in attendance at the former President's rally today are unharmed."
"Violence targeted at any political party or political leader is absolutely unacceptable," Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said on X. "It has no place in Pennsylvania or the United States. I have been briefed on the situation. @PAStatePolice are on the scene in Butler County and working with our federal and local partners."
Donald Trump Jr. tweeted a photo of his father after the incident and wrote, "He'll never stop fighting to Save America."
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, considered a possible choice for Trump's running mate, posted on social media, "Please join Kathryn and me in praying for President Trump, his family and everyone attending the rally today."
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, another potential VP candidate, tweeted, "Praying for President Trump and all those attending the rally in Pennsylvania today."
Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, also on the VP shortlist, wrote, "Everyone join me in praying for our President Trump and everyone at that rally. I hope everyone is ok."
CBS New York reports security has been tightened at Trump Tower in Manhattan following the rally shooting.
The Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department said it was increasing its police presence across the city, "out of an abundance of caution," but said there were no known threats to the district.
Robert Costa, Pat Milton, Andy Triay, Arden Farhi, Fin Gomez, Aaron Navarro, Sara Cook and other CBS News staff contributed reporting.
Republican National Convention in Milwaukee has law enforcement on heightened awareness - CBS News
By Pat Milton July 14, 2024 / 9:23 AM EDT / CBS News
Federal, state and local law enforcement officials are on high alert ahead of the Republican National Convention that will kick off in Milwaukee on Monday. Changes to the security measures were being planned after former President Donald Trump was injured in a shooting at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania Saturday evening.
A joint threat assessment created by the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, the Milwaukee Police Department and the Milwaukee Southeastern Wisconsin Threat Analysis Center was sent out to law enforcement officials in anticipation of the RNC, calling for heightened awareness.
No credible or specific threat was identified in the assessment, a law enforcement source told CBS News.
After the shooting at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, multiple law enforcement officials told CBS News' Nicole Sganga that there is planning currently underway to expand the perimeter at the RNC and create buffer zones around the events.
Law enforcement sources said the gunman at the rally was outside the Secret Service perimeter when he opened fire with an AR-style rifle, before being killed by a Secret Service sniper. Trump said he was struck in the upper ear. A rally attendee was killed and two others were critically wounded.
A senior law enforcement official told CBS News that no foreign terrorism ties are known at this time to the shooter, who the FBI identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. There was no indication that there was a second person involved in the attempted assassination, though investigations are ongoing.
The Trump campaign said in a statement that Trump is "doing well" and "looks forward to joining you all in Milwaukee as we proceed with our convention to nominate him to serve as the 47th President of the United States."
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arpenters assemble a Trump 2024 sign outside the Fiserv Forum ahead of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Republicans from across the country will descend on Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum arena to nominate their candidate for president. Former President Donald Trump's nomination this week is considered a formality as he clinched the nomination in March after amassing the 1,125 delegates needed. Trump has yet to announce a vice president.
The convention begins Monday and goes through Thursday, with the official nomination of the presidential candidate and running mate expected Monday afternoon.
The RNC and the Trump campaign announced ahead of the assassination attempt on Saturday a list of speakers for this week's convention, which includes lawmakers, television personalities and members of the former president's family, among others. Names like Tucker Carlson, Vivek Ramaswamy, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and House Speaker Mike Johnson are on the list, which also includes a number of Republican senators, senate candidates and representatives. And top contenders for Trump's vice presidential pick, like North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Sen. J.D. Vance and Sen. Marco Rubio are also slated to speak.
Meanwhile, the threat assessment found that there is concern the convention and pre- and post-celebration venues could be attractive targets for foreign terrorist organizations, homegrown violent extremists, domestic violent extremist groups, so-called lone-wolf bad actors and active shooters, a law enforcement source said.
Other key findings in the threat assessment include the convention could be viewed as an attractive target due to its symbolic nature and link to the 2024 general election.
As such, all law enforcement and security agencies will be enhancing their presence and resources during the event.
A worker vacuums the convention floor as preparations continue inside the Fiserv Forum for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisc., on Saturday, July 13, 2024.BILL CLARK/CQ-ROLL CALL, INC VIA GETTY IMAGES
The Republican and Democratic conventions are considered high-priority events for law enforcement and are on par with other high-profile large gathering events such as the Super Bowl and presidential inaugurations.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security classifies the RNC as a SEAR -1 event, which is defined as "significant events with national and/or international importance that require extensive federal interagency support." Federal law enforcement bulletins such as the joint threat assessment are required for all SEAR-1 events.
At least two dozen states and the District of Columbia are sending officers to the convention, according to the Milwaukee Police Department. Additional departments could be added to the list "up until the start of the convention," officials said.
The U.S. Secret Service is the leading coordinating agency for next week's events.
Nicole Sgagna and Jake Rosen contributed to this report.
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After Donald Trump shot at rally, Russia, China and other foreign powers weigh in on assassination
By Haley Ott July 17, 2024 CBS News
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be calling former President Donald Trump after he was shot at at a campaign rally over the weekend, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, as the Russian government accused the Biden administration of creating an atmosphere that led to the attack.
"We do not at all think or believe that the attempt to eliminate presidential candidate Trump was organized by the current government, but the atmosphere that this administration created during the political struggle, the atmosphere around candidate Trump provoked what America is faced with today," Peskov said on Sunday.
On Sunday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a social media post that U.S. lawmakers should use the money being spent to supply Ukraine with weapons "to finance the American police and other services which should ensure law and order within the United States."
Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed his sympathies to Trump, according to a statement from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while The Global Times, a newspaper owned by the country's ruling Communist Party, published several editorial articles quoting Chinese academics who said the U.S. was becoming increasingly polarized and at risk of a potential civil war.
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Many international leaders were quick to reach out to the former president in the wake of the shooting, either publicly or privately, including some U.S. adversaries.
Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro said he and Trump, "have been adversaries, but I wish President Trump a healthy and long life."
Leaders of close U.S. allies also contacted Trump, including new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who spoke with Trump on the phone to express his condolences for those who were killed and to condemn the violence, his office said.
Buckingham Palace said Monday that King Charles III had sent a private letter to Trump via the U.K. Embassy in Washington on Sunday, but it did not give any information on the contents of the private correspondence.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was "relieved to learn that Donald Trump is now safe," and that "such violence has no justification and no place anywhere in the world."
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Argentina's President Javier Milei, a political outsider who was compared to Trump during his own election campaign, called the assassination attempt "cowardly" and said without any further explanation that it highlighted the "desperation of the international left," and its "willingness to destabilize democracies and promote violence to screw itself into power."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the shooting "wasn't just an attack on Donald Trump. This was an attack on a candidate for the presidency of the United States. This was an attack on America. It was an attack on democracy, it was an attack on all the democracies."
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the PA "condemn this terrorist act" and "rejects violence, terrorism and extremism, whatever its source."
A senior leader of Hamas, which ran the Gaza Strip for almost two decades and has been at war with Israeli forces since it launched its Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, told CBS News on Monday that the group condemns "any violence."
The Hamas official said the group considers the upcoming U.S. election "an American internal issue, and if there is a difference between the two candidates, it is not essential or crucial, because Israel is part of American strategic interests in the region and is a non-partisan issue."
Iranian plot against Donald Trump detected by U.S. intelligence
U.S. officials told CBS News on July 16 that an Iranian plot against Trump had been detected in recent weeks, though no ties between the shooter who targeted the former president on Saturday and any accomplices, foreign or domestic, had been found. The Secret Service had increased resources and assets for Trump's protection in June in response to the Iranian threat, adding Counter Assault Team personnel, counter sniper team personnel, drones and robotic dogs, the officials said.
Iran's foreign ministry said Wednesday that it "strongly rejects any involvement in the recent armed attack against Trump," and the country's mission to the United Nations dismissed the allegations of previous plotting as "malicious."
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