Everything You Need to Know About Yesterday’s Chaotic First Day at the NRC
Over the next two weeks, the news cycle will be taken over by political conventions . Instead of watching every single day, we collect the most important moments so you can catch up and get on with your day. This is what happened on the first day of the Republican National Convention.
Anti-Trump delegates continue to oppose his appointment …
From Cleveland.com : An attempted uprising at the Republican National Convention hit the wall Monday afternoon – and those trying to push new rules that could jeopardize Donald Trump’s candidacy responded with a husky voice.
… Then a group of delegates came out to protest
From Vox : What Unruh and her fellow travelers wanted on Monday was a written roll-call vote and getting enough signatures to force the convention to hold one vote. When Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas tried to convince delegates to accept the rules by simply shouting yes or no, chaos erupted in the assembly hall. Unruh and the Colorado delegation left , as did the Iowa delegation.
Spokesman Steve King said “Western civilization” provides more historical contributions than any other subgroup of people.
From the New York Times : Representative Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, questioned the historical contributions of non-white “subgroups” during a speech on MSNBC on Monday, prompting swift online backlash.
Some parts of Melania Trump’s speech may have been borrowed from Michelle Obama
From Gawker : You can see Trump’s words next to Obama’s in the video above. Some phrases, such as “your word is your responsibility” and “your willingness to work hard for them,” have been translated almost verbatim or exactly like this, and the rest of the section appears to have been specially adapted to avoid detection.
Rudy Giuliani gave a speech on the theme of the first day “Making America Safe Again”
From CNN : In his speech introducing Donald and Melania Trump, Giuliani stuck to the theme of the day: attacks on Clinton over Benghazi and immigration.
“Who would trust Hillary Clinton to protect them? I would not. Could you? “He said.
Politifact and FactCheck.Org bet on Benghazi, immigration and security
From Politifact : The Republican National Convention kicked off Monday in Cleveland with a Make America Safe Again theme, with a number of speakers criticizing Hillary Clinton as a dishonest politician who, along with President Barack Obama, endangers Americans.
Source FactCheck.org : The 2016 Republican National Convention kicked off with Day 1’s theme, “Making America Safe Again.” But in some cases, facts are not immune to distortion.
Stephen Colbert briefly captures the RNC scene in a Hunger Games costume
From the Washington Post : Comedian Stephen Colbert took the NRC by storm on July 17, appearing in a Hunger Games Caesar Flickman costume and jumping onstage to taunt Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (Video: Cassandra Fairbanks)
Over the next two weeks, we will be bringing you more updates with highlights and where you can find additional information on each day of the major political conventions.