Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks throughout a rally in Doral, Florida, on July 9, 2024.
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The Trump marketing campaign and the Republican Nationwide Conference on Saturday collectively introduced the speaker lineup for the nominating conference that kicks off Monday, together with celebrities, high-dollar donors, dozens of Capitol Hill lawmakers and 9 politicians floated as attainable vice presidential working mates.
Trump’s present VP frontrunners — Sens. JD Vance, R-Ohio, Marco Rubio, R-Fla. and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum — are set to talk, together with six VP hopefuls thought to have lesser odds, together with former GOP presidential candidates Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
Within the week main as much as the RNC, Trump has repeatedly teased his VP choose announcement and tried to fundraise off of the suspense, together with a Saturday marketing campaign memo.
Varied Trump megadonors are additionally on the RNC lineup together with enterprise capitalist David Sacks and buyers Steve and Zach Witkoff.
They are going to be joined by a flurry of Republican Senate candidates and lawmakers together with Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
Conservative tv personalities Tucker Carlson and Savannah Chrisley are additionally slated to talk, together with rapper Amber Rose.
In complete, the RNC could have over 80 audio system rallying assist round Trump earlier than the conference culminates in formally designating him the Republican presidential nominee.
Notably lacking from the RNC speaker checklist is former First Woman Melania Trump, in addition to Trump’s daughter and former White Home advisor Ivanka Trump.
Melania has to date been conspicuously absent from the Trump marketing campaign path, drawing mockery from President Joe Biden.
Different members of Trump’s household from son Eric Trump to daughter-in-law Lara Trump, who additionally co-chairs the RNC, are scheduled to talk.
The Milwaukee conference runs from Monday to Thursday and is predicted to be a extra fervent rally of Trump fanfare than earlier years as a result of former president’s grip on the 2024 Republican Social gathering. The RNC’s power is also boosted by the post-pandemic pleasure of convening in particular person after being held just about in 2020.
Regardless of the Trump hype, the conference additionally poses a novel problem for the previous president who’s underneath indictment in a number of lawsuits. Trump is prohibited from talking with witnesses and alleged co-conspirators associated to these authorized circumstances, lots of whom will probably be in attendance in Milwaukee.
