don t have time because there were so many other false claims. so let s adjust some of those. not even all of them. he repeated his usual lie about democrats having cheated in the 2020 the election. it s nonsense. he said, crime is going up. the opposite is true. it s gone sharply down in 2023 and early 2024 is now lower than it was under trump in 20 2020. he said, we have the worst inflation. we ve ever had. again, not even close. it is three 3% right now, the u.s. record is 23.7%. he said there was no inflation under for him. it was low, of course, but not nonexistent. it was 8% total for his presidency, 1.4% year over year in the month he left office, he said the price of groceries is up 57 and percent under biden, it s actually 21%. he said democrats are proposing to quadruple people s taxes. that is imaginary. he said his tax cut was the largest in american history. not even close again, he said the biden administration does nothing to stop migrants while the administrat
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 fan, an
doing a moderated conversation with republican women in michigan and then i think another one on thursday in north carolina. to talk about abortion and reproduction rights. reproduction rights. the president is very happy th with how she has been his emissary on that. it is certainly a weak spot for jd vance if you talk about national public opinion on reproductive choice, so the fact that they are putting the vice president out at this ce moment on this issue as her opponent is making his grand debut. and it is her with republican women. including olivia troy who will be familiar to msnbc viewers because they can make some inroads there. very interesting counterprogramming there. we will be watching over the l course of the week as the republican national convention continue through thursday night in milwaukee. it is happening under very unusual circumstances, in the wake of the shooting, the attempted assassination of the republican now nominee donald trump on saturda
american politics right now is our special coverage continues of the republican national convention. tonight s theme night at the republican convention was make america wealthy once again. tomorrow it is make america safe onceagai it s a different line they fill in every night. good evening once again. ag. coverage of the republican national convention. with 113 days until the election, today the rnc opened withda a historic backdrop. the h classified documents case against donald trump wassi 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 on in the hour, but right 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 j.d. vance would be his running mate. vance is the junior senator
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