RNC 2024 live: Trump expected to appear just days after being shot during assassination attempt

Senator Katie Britt spoke at the RNC this evening after her GOP response to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address went viral.

Her tone, which mirrored the infamous March speech that became the subject of a Saturday Night Live cold open skit, has already been mocked on social media.

“Katie Britt is giving another speech throwing off serial killer vibes again at the Republican National Convention,” one user wrote on X.

Another user wrote: “Is Katie Britt a robot? Why does she speak like that?”

“Ok, that is just how Britt talks,” a third user noted.

Senator Katie Britt, who went viral earlier this year after she gave the GOP response to the State of the Union address, spoke at the Republican National Convention on Monday night.

“To my fellow moms and dads across America, I think we all know that raising a family is hard,” Britt told convention attendees. “Add in smartphones and social media, and we already had plenty to worry about, but then Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came around. Now our lives are that much more difficult and way more expensive. “

“We will defeat decline, dust off our dreams and forge our future, because families across our nation deserve better,” Britt said. “Once again, America will be the land of limitless opportunity for all, and paving that path starts today.

“So let’s roll up our sleeves, send President Trump back to the White House and get America back on track.”

Republican National Committee Chairs Michael Whatley and Lara Trump praised JD Vance as the GOP vice presidential pick.

“The GOP is the party of working Americans, and Senator Vance has long championed the rural men and women left behind in Joe Biden’s America,” Whatley and Lara Trump said in a statement. “His experience, on top of President Trump’s accomplishments for rural communities, like negotiating fairer trade deals like the USMCA and cutting red tape for our farmers, will show Americans in the Heartland that they have a home in President Trump’s movement to Make America Great Again.”

“We look forward to welcoming Americans of all backgrounds into our ‘big tent’ Party and behind the Trump-Vance ticket in the leadup to Election Day.”

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a right-wing firebrand from Georgia, spoke at the Republican National Convention moments ago.

Greene attacked US aid to Ukraine and President Joe Biden’s immigration policies. She also praised Corey Comperatore, the 50-year-old father and retired fire chief who died after gunfire erupted at Donald Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. Comperatore was killed after throwing his body on his wife and daughter to protect them from the bullets.

Donald Trump is expected to appear on stage at the Republican National Convention this evening, CNN reports.

His appearance comes just days after he was shot in the ear in an attempted assassination at a Butler, Pennsylvania rally.

The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, killed one attendee and injured two others.

Eric Trump described his reaction to watching his father, Donald Trump, face an attempted assassination at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.

“I sat there with my two infant children, I watched the whole thing happening,” the former president’s son told CNN. “I can obviously recognize the sound of gunshots, and you hear them come across the TV screens, and it’s horrifying.”

Trump was struck in the ear, while one attendee was killed and two others were injured.

“He had blood coming out of his ear, he had blood on his face,” Eric Trump continued. “He was on the ground, he didn’t know where else he had possibly even hit. Obviously, it was a huge sign of relief when he got up, when he put his fist in the air.”

He told CNN that his father’s life “could’ve been taken in a heartbeat.”

“It was less than an inch, if he had turned his head…he certainly understands how close it was.”

Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican from a swing district in New York, told The Independent that JD Vance’s working-class background could help swing the election in Donald Trump’s favor.

“I think he certainly will appeal greatly to blue-collar working-class voters, especially in the Rust Belt in the states that ultimately are going to determine the outcome,” Lawler told The Independent.

“I think that the vice presidential pick was always interesting and exciting,” he continued. “At the end of the day, that person is going to be a spokesperson for the President.”

Michael Whatley, chair of the Republican National Committee, took the stage in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to kick off the Monday evening programming.

The speakers expected on stage tonight include Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and South Dakota governor Kristi Noem.

Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate who dropped out of the race in January, said he would be open to replacing JD Vance’s senate seat if he and Trump win in November.

“I have rock-solid conviction that JD will be an outstanding VP for President Trump,” Ramaswamy told Fox News. “The only negative is this leaves our side missing one of our best fighters in the Senate. If asked to serve, I would strongly consider the position and would discuss with President Trump which path makes the most sense for our country.”

Vance is currently the junior senator from Ohio.

In the two days since Donald Trump’s right ear was grazed by a gunman’s bullet at a Pennsylvania campaign rally on Saturday, a complete picture of the 20-year-old suspect is yet to emerge publicly—and details of what led up to the stunning event remain unclear.

Thomas Matthew Crooks had no criminal record, no known history of mental illness, and “was not known to the FBI prior to this incident,” the bureau said. The nursing home dietary aide’s family is working with investigators, who say they have not discovered any evidence of Crooks’ involvement with a broader plot, but are still treating the unsuccessful assassination attempt as a potential case of domestic terrorism.

In an email on Monday to The Independent, administrator Marcie Grimm of the Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, said, “We are shocked and saddened to learn of his involvement as Thomas performed his job without concern and his background check was clean.”