They are coming from behind. Joe biden holds a stable lead nationwide and in those key battleground states. Its been that way for weeks. The big question for the president and his party, can they shake up the race in these four nights of prime time, cast a new light on trump, raise new doubts about biden . One thing is clear, the president will do it his way, appearing day and night all through the convention. Hes given three speeches already today, the first after the roll call of states in charlotte, officially making him the nominee. Michigan, the great lake state, is going to cast all 73 votes for president donald j. Trump. Floridas 122 delegate votes to the next president of the United States. Thank you. Oklahoma loves you, mr. President i just want to thank everybody for this incredible support. Be very, very careful. This is going to be and i really believe this, this is the most important election in the history of our country. Dont let them take it away from you. Dont let them
Well, good evening, everyone, welcome to nbc news live coverage of night one of the Republican National convention. As with the democrat last week, this convention will look a lot different than the ones in the past, of course, due to the pandemic. The republicans make their case to hit back at joe biden and the democrats. We will be hearing from a variety of speakers over the next four nights, office holders, family member, trump loyalists. We start with the headliner governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. We will also hear from the president s oldest son, donald trump, jr. And republican senator tim scott. We expect to hear from President Trump. On each of these four nights, including in a video with american hostages freed during his administration earlier in charlotte, north carolina, where the entire convention was originally scheduled. They will renominate donald trump and mike pence for president and Vice President. We will start with chuck todd and andrea mitchell.
Than 300 candidates gather to kick things off. Any moment now, the president will appear with six american hostages. During his time in the white house, held captive. Tonight, the famed land of promise, speakers include the former ambassador to the u. N. , nikki haley, the president s son, and one of the leading voices on Race Relations in the Republican Party. They all have a prompt and position this evening. We have reporting from senior Political Correspondent mike emanuel standing by there in washington and analysis from dan heninger and marie harf. Good evening to all of you. We will get a comment in a moment here, and i want to bring our audience up to speed, a video at the moment is about to play out called bring them home that goes directly to the lives of those held captive overseas. I thought i had been forgotten. I nearly gave up hope. I was so afraid. I believed i would die here. American hostages. For cotton and wasting away in faroff prisons. Wrongfully detained foreign g
Positivity that is up lifting some far much of what we herd are sustained attacks on the Democratic Party and joe bride in. But i will say this, we have seen a number of every day americans, just like democrats did last week, we herd from a nurse, we lettered from front line workers, we herd from a Small Business owner, really answering the question, is your life better than four years ago. And all of them had said yes. And the way they are addressing it are special Education Services particular to the coronavirus, economic downfall. So we also have herd from a number of President Trumps staunchest supporters, we will see some of this speak later, former un ambassador nikki haley, tim scott the only black republican senator at that level. So there are a number of things we are going to hear, but the theme has really been to characterize joe biden, the democrats as socialists, and that has been the theme last week and counter programming that we saw. But also trying to defend President
Cash trade. Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Trumpa on the defensive. The president stands by his handling of the coronavirus on day one of the Republican National convention. Says democrats are still blaming America First Nikki Haley Says democrats are still blaming America First. The chinese arrives in europe today. Demandsla merkel answers from russia after it was putin critict the was likely poisoned. We have figures crossing the wire right now. The German Economy shrank 9. 7 in the second quarter. The initial estimate was for a drop of 10 point 1 . This is a second look here, and so it looks like it is a little better than expected. Still, of course, a massive drop , the quarter over quarter figure. The yearoveryear figure is a drop of 11. 3 , so a big drop in the german gdp. That the bloomberg economists expect a rebound in the second half, and of fullyear drop of about 6 for 2020. Lets take a look at what futures are telling us after the new record highs