Campaignb smith on 2020 and the role of military voters and young americans. Plus your emails, tweets, and phone calls. Washington journal starts now. First Lady Melania Trump closed out day two of the Republican National convention with a speech from the white house last night where she called on voters to support her husband for a second term claiming he will fight for them. Yourll continue with comments and reactions to the Republican National convention with a look ahead at tonights lineup. Here is how we are dividing the line. If you support the president dial in at 202 7488000. If you are supporting joe biden 202 7488001. If you have a thirdparty candidate or are undecided dialing that dial in at 202 7488002. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 202 7488003. Join the conversation on facebook and twitter. While we wait for your calls, here is a little bit from the first lady. As you have heard this evening, i dont want to use this precious time attacking the other side. As we saw last week that kind of talk only serves to divide the country further. I am here because we need my husband to be our president. He is what is best for our country. We all know donald trump makes no secret about how he feels about things. Ourl honesty is what citizens deserve from a president. Youher you like it or not, always know what he is thinking. An is because he is authentic person and wants to continue to make it better. Donald wants to keep your family safe. He wants to help your family succeed. He wants nothing more than for this country to prosper, and he doesnt waste time playing politics. Host the front pages of newspapers this morning frame day two of the convention this way. The washington times, first lady lends her voice to the president s reelection bid. Post, a mixhington of president ial power, politics on display with a picture of the first lady from the white house in the rose garden. ,he New York Times this morning secretary of state resident mike secretary of state mike pompeo speaking from delusive and Melania Trump saying a vote for her husband is a vote for freedom. Tiffany trump talked about freedom from oppression. Thise wall street journal morning, also featuring the first lady and secretary of state and tiffany trump. Secretary of state and first lady the Vice President will address republicans and voters across the nation from fort mchenry in baltimore. Atwill begin our coverage 8 30 p. M. Eastern time. We will speak tonight to the second lady, karen pence, along with Kellyanne Conway, who announced she is leaving the white house at the end of the month. At 8 30 pme begins on cspan and on our website, cspan. Org. You can check out everything related to the rnc on cspan. Org rnc and you can download the free cspan radio app. Usa today, the Vice President in his remarks will be stressing wins in the virus fight. Brenda from arkansas, you are supporting the president. Good morning, did you watch . Caller absolutely, the last two nights. I had friends that pointed out that they are running things at the convention they never knew President Trump did, not cspan, but the media does not report on the good things he does. They spend their time investigating what he did not do right. He has done so many things. Host what surprised you, what did you learn that surprised you . Caller i follow everything closely so i did not learn anything, but a lot of people did not have any idea about the right to try or the first act where prisoners got Early Release who were overcharged and the number of apprenticeship programs and he brought back nasa. There is the farmers to family program. 75 million family meals and no one talks about it. Quickly. D so it came up in march and by may 15 they were delivering meals to people, boxes with food for a week and the president cut regulations. A lot of people did not know that. We knew he built back our military i thought it was very informative. I thought it gave an opportunity for people who were not aware of what the president has done to see things. They still have not covered everything he has done. I wish of the media would start doing that. Be fair and talk about the good things he has done. Host some of the criticism has been using the white house as a backdrop for the convention. You had the secretary of state speaking from jerusalem. How do you respond to that . Caller they are talking about using the hatch act as a problem. The hatch act would mean they have profited from it. As i understand, the white house is paying the only thing that cost anything was setting up the chairs and staging. The campaign is paying for that. Notink as long as they are charging the government for the things they are doing for the convention, and i realize it is that peoples house, but its also the president s house. I guess i am ok with it. Host brenda in arkansas supporting the president. Speaking from jerusalem was the secretary of state. He spoke about the president s accomplishments. Sec. Pompeo the primary function of the National Government is insuring your family is safe and ensuring you can learn and worship as you choose. Delivering on this to keep us safe and our freedoms intact. This president has led bold initiatives in nearly every corner of the world. In china he pulled back the curtain on the predatory aggression of the Chinese Communist party. The president has held china accountable for covering up the virus and allowing it to spread death and economic destruction in america and around the world. He will not rest until justice is done. He has ensured that the chinese spies in america are jailed or sent back to china. He has ended the unfair trade arrangement with china that punched a hole in our economy. Those jobs are coming back home. In north korea the president lowered the temperature and got north korean leadership to the table. Longrangetests, no missile test, and americans held captive in north korea came home to their families as did the precious remains of scores of heroes who fought in korea. Has is stronger, ukraine defensive weapons systems, and america left a harmful treaty so our nation can build missiles to deter russian aggression. In the middle east, when iran threatened the president approved a strike and killed an iranian terrorist, the man most responsible for the murder and maiming of hundreds of american soldiers and thousands of christians across the middle east. Officee president took radical islamic terrorist beheaded americans and isis controlled a territory the size of great britain. The isis caliphate is wiped out and gone. Is dead. Le leader our brave soldiers are on their way home. The president exited the u. S. From the Disastrous Nuclear Deal with iran. The president moved to the u. S. Embassy to this very city of jerusalem. Just two weeks ago the president brokered a historic peace deal between israel and the united arab emirates. This is a deal our grandchildren will read about. Firsthander i saw people desperate for freedom. Ensure each of us can our freedom is by electing leaders who dont talk but deliver. Host the secretary of state delivering his speech from israel. The New York Times has this towards, with an eye 2024 pompeo delivers his convention speech. They note in here it was the first time in 75 years that a sitting secretary of state address the National Convention to nominate a partys president ial candidate. Thats according to a president ial historian. That was not by accident, he said. There was a feeling that Foreign Policy should be sacrosanct and secretaries of state should not mix in domestic politics. Pompeos political ambitions, if he has any interest in running for president in the future this is a way of inserting himself in president ial politics while breaking important traditions in american history. Undecided in smithfield, virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning to you and your staff. Liked was the point i this is 100 different from mr. Trump and i hope the republicans democraten they say this democrat that and attacking the other side. As you see in the streets, divide and divide. I love them for saying that. Thank you, goodbye. Host how are you voting . Caller thank you maam, goodbye. [laughter] host jackie from wisconsin, supporting the president. Caller hi. Host good morning. Caller what are your thoughts on the Republican National convention . Caller i love it. I am happy with things trump has accomplished. He has done so much for the black colleges, for prison reform, for foreign policies for our country. Host robert in tennessee, undecided. Caller yes maam. Host why undecided . Caller well i just i just played the middleoftheroad and i am leaning towards trump. He is a businessman. He is not a diehard politician. A business and this country is a business, it needs to be run like a business, not in the red. I am so happy he is bringing back to the country and giving to the public. He is the best man for the job and he has my vote this time. Host what do you like about the former Vice President . I didnt much care for him when he was with his partner , i dont really think they did a very good job, although they their chests out and their hats hi. Patting each other on the back. Everything in a worse position than it was from the previous. We are on the right trail. Host robert in tennessee. In other news this morning, and news alert from npr about the unrest in kenosha, wisconsin. Fatally injured in kenosha, wisconsin as protests continue over a police shooting. Lets go to jeff in tennessee who is supporting the president. Jeff, good morning. What has stood out over the past couple of days of this convention . Is putting god back in our country. The First Amendment rights. I love what he has done for our country economically. Host so that is why you will support him, did you support him and 2016 . Caller yes. He is the only politician he is not a career politician that has done everything he said he is going to do and followed through. All of these career politicians talk a big talk and after they are elected you hear nothing else about the policies they support. Host jeff in tennessee. Rock, arkansas. Supporting the former Vice President. Caller i think that there convention is full of lies. This man couldnt tell the truth if jesus was standing right next to him and god was asking him questions. I stay in the suburbs and i am a black person. I am scared if i go down the street i might get shot by a police. Theblack people ought to be ones that are scared, not these white people. Are not going to get a clue until they are standing barine, waiting for their on their arm to get food from the devil. That man is nothing but the devil. Host its because of Race Relations you are supporting joe biden . Caller no, i am supporting joe biden because i have common sense. Artist, is a con cant believe these folks. Like my grandmother said, theres a sucker born every day. Host amanda in arkansas. The wall street journal this morning has this piece about the reelection efforts of both of these candidates. How much money they have spent and raised. If you take a look at the graphic the wall street journal put together, the president s campaign has wrought in 72 million in july, nearly double what his campaign raised in july of 2016. He has spent 64. 5 million of that. 63. 4den has raised million and has spent nearly 60 million of it. Hillary clinton at this point had raised 52 million and spent 38 million. What the Trump Campaign is spending most of their money on, a little over 34 Million Dollars in tv, radio, print media. About 10 million in Online Advertising and 3 million in text message advertising. In direct mail 2. 4 million and the payroll is costing them 2 million. Forbes magazine has this piece posted on their website. Moved 2. 3 million of Campaign Donor money into his private business. The president has yet to donate to his campaign. Write this. Le they donald trump continues to shift money from his donors to his business last month as his Reelection Campaign paid private companies for rent, food, lodging, and other expenses. The richest president in american history, who has yet to donate to his 2020 campaign, has moved 2. 3 million in contributions from others into his private company. Lets go to ruby in bristol, tennessee who supports the president. Hello, ruby. Good morning. Caller good morning, how are you . Host doing well. What do you think of the convention . Caller i like it. They are talking about what trump wants to do for america. All the democrats did was bash trump. You did not hear anything they would do to help the people but harm the people. I am voting trump. I have never voted in my life. This year i am voting. Host you didnt vote in 2016 . Caller no. I have never voted, i have never registered. Host what has motivated you . Morals and trump is the only president that says what he is going to do and he has done it. Everyone else says what they are going to do but when it comes time they dont do it. They make a career out of being a politician. He is not making a career out of he already has money. He wanted to help the people. I thank god for that. The more officials from president S Administration will be speaking tonight. The Vice President , mike pence, his wife, karen pence, and Kellyanne Conway will be speaking along with joni ernst, the Iowa Republican senator. The south dakota governor will also be speaking. You may recall her from the president s speech at mount rushmore. That starts tonight at 8 30. We will go until they conclude, uninterrupted, unfiltered, no one talking over the top. After the speakers are finished we will open up the phone lines to get more of your thoughts right here on cspan or download the free cspan radio app. Lets go to teresa from florida supporting the president. Hello, teresa. Caller good morning. I most certainly support the president. The day i saw him come down the escalator was one of the best days of my life. Thats all i ever wanted. Host thats why you continue to support him . Caller absolutely. He has done a great job. I remember in my lifetime donethe democrats have from kavanaugh it went on and on. How bad theized Democratic Party was until trump got in. I will certainly be voting for trump. Host birmingham, alabama. Deborah is supporting joe biden. Its your turn. Caller good morning. First of all i would like to point out that maybe one or two of the people that were sworn in by the president last night, they were from countries he had described in a very derogatory way. Say but forcould the grace of god they gained entry to our country before he became president. The other thing i would like to mention, this is about the riots. This is all happening under donald trump. This is his thing. Trying tobe the one put everything down, trying to quiet everything down. If he should do it he should do it now. Nothing that is going to change that if he is reelected. The day after reelection, the same people are going to be in charge in those cities and states. He is just trying to con people. If he can do something about it, do it now. The bottom line is he cant do anything about it. I hope the democrats are listening to me so that they can respond in that way. Other than that, thank you very much. Host from milford, connecticut supporting the president. Hello. Caller good morning. Absolutely, donald trump president again. He has made this world better. What the democrats have done, people do not realize they are going in a socialistic way those riots are because of donald trump. That has nothing to do with the black people. I have a lot of black friends. Marxist group that just wants to take over our country. Host what evidence do you have of that . Caller what evidence do i have . If you go on the site the person was just on msnbc a couple of weeks ago. The originator of the blm movement, she said we are a marxist Trained Group and our goal is to get the president out of the white house and not in november but now. This destruction that is going on, that is why we have vigilantes fighting back. Donald trump tried to do something about the rioting. ,very time he tried to go in the democratic mayors and governors said no. They dont want his help. That woman that just called from alabama and the lady that called from arkansas who is worried about getting shot if she went down the street, only if she has done something from wrong. President , i used to to be a democrat. When obama was president we didnt go out and riot in the streets. People have suffered enough with covid and cant open up or go to church. This is so out of hand. I pray that the night of the election that the votes are so high that they cant even have a discrepancy that he is president again. Issue, Hillary Clinton sat down for an theysive interview and released this clip of her interview yesterday where she says to joe biden, dont concede if the election is close. Take a look. If its a close election, lets say biden wins, what do you think trump will do . They have a couple of scenarios they are looking towards. One is messing up absentee balloting, they believe that helps them. Maybe athey then get narrow advantage in the Electoral College on election day. A couple of cases, like in wisconsin where they did everything they could to mess up voting, but because courts had ordered absentee ballots to be counted if they were postmarked on election day, democrats some important races. In the recent michigan primary, i was told in detroit the republicans had 40 lawyers challenging absentee, mailin voting, and a local reporter talking to one of the lawyers was told it was a dry run for november. We have to have a massive legal operation, i know the Biden Campaign is working on that, we have to have full workers, an