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Former President Donald J. Trump will formally accept the Republican presidential nomination for a third election cycle during the partys national convention in Milwaukee.

The four-day showcase of unwavering loyalty to Mr. Trump begins on Monday and ends on Thursday, with his acceptance speech in prime-time.

Heres how to watch it (all times are Eastern):

The New York Times will stream the convention speeches during prime-time, alongside real-time commentary and analysis from reporters.

C-SPAN will stream the convention at C-SPAN.org and on the C-SPAN Now mobile app.

CBSs streaming platform, CBS News 24/7, will start its nightly coverage at 7 p.m., but it will not carry the convention gavel to gavel. Instead, it will show speeches when it decides news warrants doing so.

NBC News will carry it on NBC News Now as part of its Decision 2024 broadcast with Lester Holt and Savannah Guthrie. That will stream from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. the first two nights of the convention and from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. the final two nights.

ABC News will offer nightly coverage on ABC News Live, its streaming platform, from 7 p.m. to midnight.

C-SPAN will carry the entire convention uninterrupted for all four days, a role it has filled since 1984.

CBS Television Network will feature live coverage of the convention from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. all four nights.

NBC News will broadcast Decision 2024 live during the same time frame that it streams the program, from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. the first two nights of the convention and from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. the final two nights.

ABC News will present live coverage from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. each night on its main broadcast network, which will be hosted by David Muir.

Fox News will air coverage during its regular prime-time lineup of shows, and it will broadcast a nightly one-hour special, starting at 10 p.m. That will be hosted by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. The channel will not carry speeches uninterrupted. For that, head to Fox Business Network. A separate broadcast, hosted by Shannon Bream at 10 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday nights, will be made available to Foxs local affiliates.

CNN will air live coverage at 2 p.m. on Monday, when Republican delegates are expected to nominate Mr. Trump via a roll call. The network will then mix coverage and analysis, anchored by Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper, each night from 8 p.m. to midnight.

MSNBC will broadcast a prime-time special from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Tuesday that will be hosted by Rachel Maddow. On Wednesday and Thursday, the network will have extended team coverage from 8 p.m. to midnight. The network has historically carried the full acceptance speeches of presidential and vice-presidential nominees.

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How to Watch the Republican Convention - The New York Times

Attendees applaud during a rally for former President Donald Trump in Chesapeake, Virginia, on June 28, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

As Republicans prepare to open their national convention in Milwaukee and renominate Donald Trump for president, here are some key facts about the roughly half of registered voters who identify with or lean toward the party, according to Pew Research Center data.

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on Republicans demographic characteristics and key political attitudes ahead of the 2024 Republican National Convention.

The public opinion data in this analysis comes from several recent Pew Research Center surveys. Links to these surveys, including details about their methodologies, are available in the text.

Republican voters are overwhelmingly White, though less so than in the past. About eight-in-ten Republican voters (79%) are non-Hispanic White, down from 93% nearly two decades ago. Still, Hispanic, Black and Asian voters together make up a much smaller share of Republican voters than Democratic voters (15% vs. 39%).

About two-thirds of Republican voters (64%) do not have a four-year college degree modestly higher than the share among all U.S. voters (60%).

Overall, about half of Republican voters (51%) are White adults without a college degree, making them the single largest bloc within the party when looking at race, ethnicity and education together. By comparison, White adults without a college degree account for 38% of U.S. voters overall.

Republican voters are older than voters overall. About two-thirds of Republican voters (65%) are ages 50 and older, compared with 59% among all voters.

Just 8% of Republican voters are under 30. Among Democratic voters, those under 30 account for twice that share (16%).

Around eight-in-ten Republican voters (81%) identify with a Christian denomination, compared with 67% of all registered voters. The largest religious group among Republicans is White evangelical Protestants, who make up 30% of GOP registered voters. White evangelicals make up a far smaller share of U.S. voters overall (17%).

Just 15% of Republican voters are religiously unaffiliated, compared with about a quarter of all voters (26%).

The vast majority of Republican voters plan to vote for Donald Trump. More than eight-in-ten GOP voters (84%) say they would vote for Trump if the election were held today, while 13% favor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Just 3% would support Joe Biden.

In the last two presidential elections, about nine-in-ten Republican voters cast their ballot for Trump (92% in 2020 and 89% in 2016). Read more about views of Trump ahead of the 2024 election in our latest report.

Large majorities of Republican voters are confident that Trump can make good decisions on key policies, but many have reservations about his personal conduct. At least eight-in-ten Republican voters say they are very or somewhat confident that Trump can make good decisions about economic policy (91%), immigration policy (89%), foreign policy (86%) and abortion policy (80%).

However, only about a quarter (26%) like the way he conducts himself personally, while 52% have mixed feelings and 21% dont like his conduct.

Most Republicans say the stakes of the 2024 presidential election are high. About three-quarters of Republican voters (73%) say it really matters who wins. Just 5% say it doesnt really matter who wins.

Republicans overwhelmingly see illegal immigration as one of the top problems facing the country. Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents overall (not just GOP registered voters), 78% say illegal immigration is a very big problem in the country today, our May 2024 survey found. This is far higher than the share of all U.S. adults who say the same (51%).

About six-in-ten Republicans (61%) say undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States should not be allowed to stay legally, according to an April 2024 survey. The share of Republicans who say this has increased by 19 percentage points since 2020.

Republicans are very negative about the state of the U.S. economy. In particular, Republicans are far more concerned than Democrats about inflation. Eight-in-ten Republicans say inflation is a very big problem in the country today, according to the May 2024 survey. By comparison, 46% of Democrats say this.

The publics views of the economy are highly partisan, and throughout Bidens presidency, Republicans have been more negative about the state of the U.S. economy than Democrats. Just 10% of Republicans rated economic conditions excellent or good. During Trumps administration, Democrats were more negative than Republicans about the economy.

Republicans are more divided over abortion than Democrats are. About six-in-ten Republicans (57%) say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, while 41% say it should be legal in all or most cases, according to the April 2024 survey. Among Democrats, 85% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and just 14% say it should be illegal in all or most cases.

Republican hostility toward Democrats has increased significantly in recent decades. Over the past several decades, there has been a sizable increase in the shares of both Republicans and Democrats who view the opposing party very unfavorably. Today, 53% of Republicans have a very unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party, up from 21% three decades ago.

Republicans also nearly unanimously dislike Biden. More than nine-in-ten (93%) say they have an unfavorable opinion of the president, according to the May 2024 survey. Meanwhile, almost a quarter of Republicans (22%) have unfavorable opinions of both Biden and Trump.

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10 facts about Republicans in the US, ahead of the 2024 Republican National Convention - Pew Research Center

Just hours after a shooting at a Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania, the former presidents aides said that the Republican National Convention will be held in Milwaukee as planned.

Trump looks forward to joining you all in Milwaukee, the campaign said Saturday.

Trump appeared to be the target of an assassination attempt as he spoke during the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.

A local prosecutor said the suspected gunman and at least one attendee are dead. The Secret Service said two spectators were critically injured.

Posting on his Truth Social media site about two and a half hours after the shooting, Trump said a bullet pierced the upper part of my right ear.

I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin, he said in the post. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening.

The attack, by a shooter who law enforcement officials say was then killed by the Secret Service, was the most serious attempt to assassinate a president or presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981. It comes amid a deeply polarized political atmosphere, just four months from the presidential elections and days before Trump is to be officially named the Republican nominee athis partys convention.

A bloodied Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa, on July, 13, 2024. The former president was rushed off stage at rally after sounds like shots; the former president was escorted into his motorcade at his rally in Butler, Pa., a rural town about an hour north of Pittsburgh. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Former President Donald Trump touches his ear as he speaks at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July, 13, 2024. Trump was escorted off the stage by Secret Service agents and into his motorcade just minutes into his rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, after a series of pops that sounded like gunshots rang out. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Former President Donald Trump inspects his hand after touching his ear, as he speaks at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa, on July, 13, 2024. Trump was escorted off the stage by Secret Service agents and into his motorcade just minutes into his rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, after a series of pops that sounded like gunshots rang out. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is covered by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Secret Service tend to republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump onstage after a popping noise was heard at a rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is covered by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)

A bloodied Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa, on July, 13, 2024. The former president was escorted off the stage by Secret Service agents and into his motorcade just minutes into his rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, after a series of pops that sounded like gunshots rang out. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

People take cover as U.S. Secret Service agents surround Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on stage at a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)

A bloodied Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa, on July, 13, 2024. The former president was escorted off the stage by Secret Service agents and into his motorcade just minutes into his rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, after a series of pops that sounded like gunshots rang out. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)

People hug after Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

People react after a series of pops that sounded like gunshots as former President Donald Trump appears at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa, on Saturday, July, 13, 2024. The former president was escorted off the stage by Secret Service agents and into his motorcade just minutes into his rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, after a series of pops that sounded like gunshots rang out. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he is escorted into a vehicle at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

U.S. Secret Service agents surround the stage as other agents cover Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents as he is taken to a vehicle at a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Law enforcement officers gather at the campaign rally site for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. Trump's campaign said in a statement that the former president was "fine" after a shooting at his rally in Butler (Evan Vucci/AP)

A campaign rally site for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is empty and littered with debris on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)

A campaign rally site for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is empty and littered with debris July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)

A campaign rally site for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is empty on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. Trump's campaign said in a statement that the former president was "fine" after a shooting at his rally in Butler (Evan Vucci/AP)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Originally Published: July 13, 2024 at 8:51 p.m.

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Republican National Convention will be held as scheduled after Trump rally shooting - Chicago Tribune

Former first lady Melania Trump is not on the list of headliners and keynote speakers announced Saturday for the Republican National Convention. She is, however, still expected to attend the convention, according to an adviser for former president Donald Trump.

The former first ladys absence on the list of speakers is a notable break away from a decades-long tradition, in which the wives of Republican presidential nominees deliver remarks at the convention.

Members of the former presidents family who are scheduled to speak include two of Trumps sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump; his daughter-in-law and Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump; and Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.s fiance.

Melania Trump delivered remarks at both the 2016 and 2020 Republican conventions. But she has largely abstained from participating in political events since leaving the White House and has not attended any of her husbands campaign rallies in recent months.

There have been some exceptions for public appearances at political events, including attending a few fundraisers in April, but she did not attend Trumps first presidential debate against President Biden last month.

She also wasnt at any of the court proceedings in her husbands hush money trial in New York, nor was she seen in public with Trump after a jury found him guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

Trumps two daughters who spoke at the Republican conventions in 2016 and 2020, Tiffany Trump and Ivanka Trump, his former White House adviser, are also absent from the list of convention speakers this year.

Ivanka Trump had said in 2022 that she would support her father outside of the political arena moving forward. She still plans to attend the 2024 convention for her fathers Thursday night speech, but will not participate in the convention in any political role, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Trumps youngest son, 18-year-old Barron, is also not scheduled to speak.

During her first convention speech in 2016, the former first lady was accused of plagiarism, lifting portions of Michelle Obamas 2008 Democratic convention speech. A writer for Donald Trumps business took the blame.

In 2020, Melania Trump used her speech to make the case for her husband, rough edges and all, saying, We all know Donald Trump makes no secrets about how he feels about things. Total honesty is what we as citizens deserve from our president. Whether you like it or not, you always know what hes thinking.

Speaking during demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in 2020, she said she had reflected on the racial unrest in our country, adding that it is a harsh reality that we are not proud of parts of our history.

Josh Dawsey and Hannah Knowles contributed to this report.

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Melania Trump not on speaker list for GOP convention - The Washington Post

Milwaukee has transformed in anticipation of the Republican National Convention (RNC), which is slated for Monday.Political analysts said they expect the convention to be more of a spectacle than a substantive event. However, there are several critical elements to watch for.This is the third time former President Donald Trump will accept the Republican Party nomination for president. Political analysts questioned whether Trump will aim to assuage the concerns of moderate Republicans or rally his base during the convention.The GOP platform will be announced next week, too. Some Republicans have voiced frustration over the lack of federal abortion ban plans in the current proposed platform.The Vice Presidential nomination will be announced before the Presidential nomination. Acceptance speeches are planned for after each candidate accepts their respective nominations.Wisconsin is viewed by both Democrats and Republicans as critical to winning the White House. The swing state was decided by about 20,000 votes in the 2020 presidential election.The RNC events begin Monday, while the Democratic National Convention is scheduled for August in Chicago.

Milwaukee has transformed in anticipation of the Republican National Convention (RNC), which is slated for Monday.

Political analysts said they expect the convention to be more of a spectacle than a substantive event. However, there are several critical elements to watch for.

This is the third time former President Donald Trump will accept the Republican Party nomination for president. Political analysts questioned whether Trump will aim to assuage the concerns of moderate Republicans or rally his base during the convention.

The GOP platform will be announced next week, too. Some Republicans have voiced frustration over the lack of federal abortion ban plans in the current proposed platform.

The Vice Presidential nomination will be announced before the Presidential nomination. Acceptance speeches are planned for after each candidate accepts their respective nominations.

Wisconsin is viewed by both Democrats and Republicans as critical to winning the White House. The swing state was decided by about 20,000 votes in the 2020 presidential election.

The RNC events begin Monday, while the Democratic National Convention is scheduled for August in Chicago.

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Milwaukee gears up for the Republican National Convention - WTAE Pittsburgh