Former President Donald Trump finally took the stage at the Republican National Convention Thursday night, speaking publicly for the first time since he nearly fell to a sniper’s bullet at a rally in western Pennsylvania.

But Trump wasn’t the only person to speak to GOP delegates at the Fiserv Forum. As they have on the previous three nights, a host of Trump supporters, ranging from former administration officials to professional wrestlers, took the stage ahead of him.

Donald Trump made a forceful case for a second term in the White House on the final night of the Republican National Convention, capping a dramatic week that included an assassination attempt and Trump's selection of a running mate amid growing calls for his Democratic rival, President Joe Biden, to drop out of the race.

On a night Republicans projected bravado around their 2024 presidential ticket, Donald Trump started his prime-time address by displaying a rare vulnerability.

In his speech capping off the Republican National Convention as he accepted the party’s nomination for a third consecutive election, Trump recounted Thursday night his attempted assassination five days earlier at a Pennsylvania rally.

“I’m not supposed to be here tonight,” he told the crowd at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.

The Bay Area has long been, and remains, a hippie-dippie bastion of Democrats who voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. But there’s a small, powerful sect of Silicon Valley billionaires who are carving a path for the maybe-Trumpers and the MAGA-curious in the tech world.

When J.D. Vance addressed the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, he wasn’t just introducing himself to the nation. He was selling a political ideology. To that end, Vance chronicled his hardscrabble upbringing to champion the core tenets of Trumpism.

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On the menu today: J. D. Vance knocked it out of the park in his convention address last night; too bad he was knocking it out of the park in the name of protectionism, populism, nationalism, industrial policy, and quasi-isolationism. But let’s pause to recognize Vance’s amazingly wide range of life experience, and note that if Vance were a Democrat, his life story is all we would be hearing about him.

Great Speech, Masterfully Delivered! I Hated It

Former President Donald Trump named Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance his running mate for the 2024 Republican presidential ticket as the GOP is poised to officially make Trump the party’s nominee at the Republican National Convention.

Vance’s nomination as Trump’s vice president pits him against current Vice President Kamala Harris, who is expected to appear on the Democratic ticket with President Joe Biden.