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they fill in there every night. for now our coverage continues o with the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle, which starts right now. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. welcome to our continuing coverage of the republican national convention. with 113 days until the th election, today the rnc opened with a historic backdrop. the classified documents case against donald trump was dismissed in florida and it has been just over 48 hours since the assassination attempt on the former president. we ll have more on that later in the hour but now, all eyes are on milwaukee as the republican presidential nominee made a surprise appearance after he was injured on saturday. earlier this evening delegates from all 50 states officially selected trump. he then took to social media to announce that jaidee vans would be his running mate. vance is the junior senator from ohio and author of hillbilly elegy. used to trash donald trump all over town before becoming a trump super f ....
convention in milwaukee. it s the third time he s been chosen as the standard bearerfor his party, but now, more than ever, he is at the zenith of his popularity. the image from saturday of the former president, fist held high, blood dripping from his ear, reinforces within the republican base the belief that their man is a fighter. everything they believe joe biden is not. and just hours ahead of this appearance on stage tonight, his position was further strengthened by a districtjudge in florida, who threw out one of two federal cases he was facing, the classified documents case that many thought was the strongest of the four. total vindication, says trump, that the investigation was a political witchunt all along. he could not have scripted it better. in the last few minutes, the roll call of the delegates who will nominate donald trump as their candidate has got under way, state by state. remember, the former president clinched the nomination in march, having amasse ....
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evening we are minutes away from president biden s oval office address the nation and day and night since the near murder of donald trump. the most serious attempted presidential assassinations since ronald reagan was shot in less than a day from the republican convention in milwaukee, where cnn s jake tapper is tonight anderson, former president trump, arrived here in milwaukee this evening to lingering concerns about safety and security here at the convention. later today, the secret service said it will not tighten security here specifically, they say they will not bar firearms for the so-called soft perimeter which lies just beyond the heartsick purities own. it controls around the venue here, even though yesterday s would be assassin, thomas crooks managed to setup rooftop snipers position in just such a zone with a clear shot at the former president, just about 150 yards away. and jake, we re learning more in the wake of the shooting, of course, at the trump ral ....
understate, you cannot overstate wisconsin is going to be in terms of the path to 70, we re still waiting for a vp announcement from donald trump. have you gotten any insight when that announcement might be coming and what we might be seeing on that stage wednesday night no, i don t think it will wait until wednesday night. let s put it that way, but no, i don t have an insight on i think well, hear the name the finalists right? of the common finalists, but i don t have a good guess. i ll say this though, kate we have half dozen 810 people that any single one of them that donald trump would nominate for vice president will have the unified support of this convention. absolutely. we re going to see it all play out together. thank you for being a welcoming host. good luck. your schedule is probably extremely brutal. yes, it is, but happy to be with you. thank you very much, brian, really appreciate it a new hour. cnn news central starts now at the top of. the hour, i ....