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Now is the summer of Republican content.

The G.O.P. is confident and unified. Donald Trump has held a consistent and widening lead over President Biden in all the battleground states. Never Trumpers have been exiled, purged or converted. The Supreme Court has eased many of Trumps legal travails while his felony convictions in New York seem to have inflicted only minimal political damage if they didnt actually help him.

Best of all for Republicans, a diminished Joe Biden seems determined to stay in the race, leading a dispirited and divided party that thinks of its presumptive nominee as one might think of a colonoscopy: an unpleasant reminder of age. Even if Biden can be cajoled into quitting, his likeliest replacement is Vice President Kamala Harris, whose 37 percent approval rating is just around that of her boss. Do Democrats really think they can run on her non-handling of the border crisis, her reputation for managerial incompetence or her verbal gaffes?

In short, Republicans have good reason to think theyll be back in the White House next January. Only then will the regrets set in.

Three in particular: First, Trump wont slay the left; instead, he will re-energize and radicalize it. Second, Trump will be a down-ballot loser, leading to divided and paralyzed government. Third, Trumps second-term personnel wont be like the ones in his first. Instead, he will appoint his Trumpiest people and pursue his Trumpiest instincts. The results wont be ones old-school Republicans want or expect.

Begin with the left.

Talk to most conservatives and even a few liberals, and theyll tell you that Peak Woke that is, the worst excesses of far-left activism and cancel culture happened around 2020. In fact, Peak Woke, from the campus witch hunts to abolish the police and the mostly peaceful protests in cities like Portland, Ore., and Minneapolis that followed George Floyds murder, really coincided with the entirety of Trumps presidency, then abated after Bidens election.

Thats no accident. What used to be called political correctness has been with us for a long time. But it grew to a fever pitch under Trump, most of all because he was precisely the kind of bigoted vulgarian and aspiring strongman that liberals always feared might come to power, and which they felt duty bound to resist. With his every tweet, Trumps presidency felt like a diesel engine blowing black soot in the face of the country. Thats also surely how Trump wanted it, since it delighted his base, goaded his critics and left everyone else in a kind of blind stupor.

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Opinion | Republicans Will Regret a Second Trump Term - The New York Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Chesapeake, Va., on June 28. Steve Helber/AP hide caption

Dedicated to the "To the Forgotten Men and Women of America," the Republican Party's 2024 platform reads like the transcript of a Trump rally speech.

The Republican National Committees Platform Committee adopted former President Donald Trumps platform, a document that leans into Trumps preferred America First stances and steers away from traditional GOP social issues.

The platform starts with 20 promises, largely pulling from the tag lines of the former president, including STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION and the simplistic END INFLATION. Trumps campaign sought to pare down the party platform.

More recently, Trump has made sure to try to distance himself from the controversial (and lengthy) Project 2025 policy document put together by some of his allies.

Notably, the promises dont mention anything about abortion, as Trump attempts to de-emphasize the issue and appeal to swing voters. In the entire platform, the word appears just once, in a statement about the party's dedication to protecting "the issue of life." It reads: "We will oppose Late Term Abortion."

After appointing the Supreme Court justices who helped overturn the constitutional right to abortion, hes said the issue should now be up to states.

Other social issues appear more frequently, including promises related to limiting federal funding for schools teaching so-called Critical Race Theory and keeping "men out of women's sports."

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Soon after presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was whisked away from a rally in Buttler, Pa., after an apparent attack, reactions, well-wishes and condemnations of the presumed attacker began pouring in from both sides of the political aisle and around the world.

At least one person was killed and the suspected shooter is dead, an official said. Trump is "fine" and being treated at a medical facility, per his campaign.

In a statement, President Joe Biden said that he is "grateful to hear" that Trump is safe and well and condemned the attack.

"Im praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information. Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety. Theres no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it," Biden said.

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World leaders, lawmakers react to shooting at Trump rally - Spectrum News NY1

Tom Mendenhall of Columbia was just about packed and ready to drive to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention when he got word not to bother.

Mendenall, who has attended seven previous conventions, was told that the conventions Credentials Committee had voted unanimously to reinstate the delegation selected at the May 4 state convention in Springfield.

Mendenhall was on the replacement slate selected July 3 by the state partys executive committee when a challenge displaced the Truly Grassroots for Trump slate. Hes not certain about what will happen with his hotel room reservation only delegates and people with official passes can stay close to the convention hall and hes not happy with the conflict over the delegation.

If there was ever a time for unity and getting people together, its now, but, but that episode down there in Springfield was pretty bad, Mendenhall said.

Missouri presidential delegates rejected by Republican National Convention committee

The confrontation that has played out over the past two weeks between party regulars and insurgents who took over the convention will likely leave no one satisfied. The 54-member at-large delegation 27 delegates and 27 alternates has been discarded, replaced and reinstated all within that time.

The final decision came when the 95-member Credentials Committee took time to listen to the evidence amassed by backers of the Truly Grassroots for Trump slate, said Coby Culins, a member who prepared the appeal heard Friday.

During the two-hour period set aside for questions, he said, the committee displayed hostility to the decision to remove the convention-elected delegation and the state party leadership decision to replace it.

As we answered questions, and we did our arguments, and you can just kind of feel the room shift, Cullins said.

The dispute over the delegation began with a challenge from two candidates for delegate who claimed that the actions of the chaotic gathering should be discarded because the results could not be trusted.

The contests committee of the Republican National Committee agreed, and ordered the state party to select replacements after it found alarming irregularities in the credentialing of delegates to the state convention.

That meant a slate that included gubernatorial candidates state Sen. Bill Eigel and Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft among its membership could not attend the convention except as guests. Now both can attend as delegates.

The contests committee turned down a request for a rehearing on Monday, setting up the Credentials Committee review.

The state-party-selected delegation set aside included former U.S. Rep. Billy Long; state Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, a candidate for secretary of state; and Susan Klein, executive director of Missouri Right to Life.

The replacement slate did include five members of the Truly Grassroots for Trump slate, but they were not informed they would be included and three of them told The Independent they would only attend as part of the original slate.

The Missouri Republican Party never contested the convention or the original delegate slate, and we are pleased the RNC has finally settled this matter so we can focus on delivering our Partys 54 national convention delegates to President Donald J. Trump, and electing Missouri Republicans up and down the ballot this November, the state party said in a statement emailed by spokeswoman Erica Choinka.

The statement from the party isnt inaccurate but it is misleading, Cullins said.

They certainly didnt support us when they had the chance, Cullins said. They chose their own slate. But I cannot contradict anything in that.

Cullins amassed affidavits from state convention delegates, obtained a video recording of the 12-hour meeting and argued that the party apparatus led by chairman Nick Myers is being rewarded for a problem it created.

The credentials committee was the first national body to review the video or accept in-person arguments, Cullins siad.

The dispute was about more than who could shout Trumps name the loudest as he is renominated, Cullins said.

It is about integrity in the process within the party, he said. The state convention was comprised of delegates elected by grassroots Republicans at mass meetings, he noted.

Those are all elected delegates for our Republican Party, Cullins said. For them to ignore the 848 delegates at the state convention, and try to do something different, was a slap in the face. That was a steal. They stole our delegates, is what we believed.

This story has been updated to provide comments from the Missouri Republican Party and the appellants.

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GOP credentials committee reinstates Missouri convention delegation at center of dispute - Missouri Independent

Florida politicians across the political spectrum condemned what one called an assassination attempt on former President Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

Trumps campaign says he is fine after being whisked off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after gunshots rang through the crowd.

Florida lawmakers took to the social media platform X to express their well wishes for Trump and condemn any violence related to politics.

Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott posted on the social media platform X, This was clearly an assassination attempt on President Trump. Im glad he seems okay, and I am praying for him and all who were at the rally. There is ZERO tolerance for violence. I hope this monster is already caught and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.:

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, rumored to be on Trumps short list for his vice presidential nominee, posted, Praying for President Trump and all those attending the rally in Pennsylvania today and also God protected President Trump.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who challenged Trump for the GOP nomination before ending his presidential campaign, posted, @CaseyDeSantis and I are praying for Donald Trump and his family.

Donald Trump hit on right ear by gunfire at rally | PHOTOS

Congressman Maxwell Frost, the Democrat whose district includes Orlando, posted, Terrifying to see the videos and images coming out of former President Trumps rally this afternoon. Im praying for the safety of every single person. Political violence is disgusting and should be fiercely condemned.

Rep. Darren Soto, another Central Florida Democratic Congressman, posted, We wish Fmr President Trump a quick recovery. We also thank law enforcement for their rapid response. We will be monitoring the situation over the next few days as more information comes to light. In our democracy, violence is never the answer.

Democratic State Rep. Anna Eskamani, who represents the Orlando area in Tallahassee, posted, Political violence is wrong and never the answer. We should all be committed to community safety regardless of politics.

GOP Congressman Mike Waltz, whose district includes part of Volusia County posted, President Trump will be stronger than ever. God bless this man. Itll take more than this to stop him.

Originally Published: July 13, 2024 at 7:39 p.m.

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Florida Republicans, Democrats react to assassination attempt on former President Trump - Orlando Sentinel