every time they have had a nominee since then. it has been this guy. his democratic opponent the president of the united states joe biden tonight announced he has tested positive for covid. he has therefore canceled all events so he can recover back home in delaware. the president is said to be mildly symptomatic. the president s doctor releasing a statement saying he has upper respiratory symptoms including a runny nose and a nonproductive cough. the doctors a statement says the president has general malaise which generally just means you feel bad. the white house statement i should point this out misspelled the word malaise. i spent if you panicked minutes googling the misspelling of the word to make sure it wasn t a new medical term i have never heard before. turns out it doesn t. the president just feels lousy. he has malaise. and a dry cough. he is taking paxlovid. this is the president of the second about with covid. the first time he had it was almost exactly 2 years a
you re looking at live images from the republican national convention in milwaukee, wisconsin this evening. of course, the big speech we are going to be hearing from trump s vice presidential running mate, jd vance. the nomination of jd vance marks the first time since john mccain ran against barack obama in 2008 that we ve had a u.s. military veteran of the top of the ticket either as the presidential or vice presidential nominee. jd vance is a retired marine. he spent six months in iraq as a combat correspondent as part of a marine corps public affairs unit. at the same time he was in iraq, literally at the exact same time, another rising star in american politics, another increasingly recognizable face of american politics, maryland governor westmore was also deployed with the military. he was a captain in the u.s. army leading combat troops as a paratrooper in afghanistan. in current incredibly, both of these men came back after their service and wrote highly praised, a
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