What Happened at the RNC on Day 3?

Day 3 of the Republican National Convention (RNC) is now history, but the delegates were in high spirits. Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio), Donald Trump’s choice for vice president, spoke and formally accepted the nomination. Fred Lucas found the following highlights from today’s convention. 

Jackson: Trump ‘Took a Bullet for Our Country’

Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas, a Navy doctor who served 14 years as White House physician – including for Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush – compared Biden with former presidents.

“Now I can say I served a president who literally took a bullet for our country,” Jackson said, prompting strong applause. “I have never been prouder of his leadership than I was last Saturday.”

“His warrior spirit and his display of will to keep fighting for our country, even after getting shot down, will go down as an all-time moment in American history,” the Texas Republican told delegates….

‘Heartbreaking’: Kai Trump Recalls Hearing of Grandfather’s Shooting

Donald Trump Jr. came to the lectern and introduced his daughter, 17-year-old Kai Madison Trump, to the delegates and the nation.

The former president’s eldest granddaughter talked about competing with him in golf.

“If I’m not on his team, he’ll try to get inside my head,” she said. “he’s always surprised that I don’t let him get to me. But I have to remind him, I’m a Trump too.”

But Kai Trump then turned to a serious subject, the assassination attempt on her grandfather at a campaign rally Saturday evening in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“On Saturday, I was shocked when I heard he had been shot, and I just wanted to know if he was OK. It was heartbreaking that someone could do that to another person,” she said.

“A lot of people have put my grandpa through hell, and he’s still standing. Grandpa, you are such an inspiration, and I love you.”

Trump Jr. returned to the lectern to talk more about how “what once seemed unimaginable became a terrifying reality.”

“My father came under literal fire, as an incredible, patriotic rally turned into a tragedy,” he said.

“On a field in Butler, Pennsylvania, a brave firefighter died. Others were injured. And as those bullets rained down, we came millimeters away from one of the darkest moments in our nation’s history,” the former president’s eldest son continued.

“But we did lose an American hero that day,” he said, referring to Corey Comperatore, 50, a rallygoer who was shot and killed by the gunman….

Vance Outlines Biden’s History of Failures

Vance contrasted his youth to Biden’s while saying that the current president – also a former vice president and longtime U.S. senator – has been wrong on most major issues and policies…. [North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), China’s sweetheart trade deal, shipping job overseas and sending children to war]

“Somehow, a real estate developer from New York by the name of Donald Trump was right on all of these issues while Joe Biden was wrong,” he said.

Navarro: ‘I Went to Prison So You Won’t’

“I went to prison so you won’t have to,” Peter Navarro, a lawyer and former White House aide who advised Trump on trade, told the crowd inside Fiserv Forum.

“I am your wake-up call,” Navarro added.

Earlier Wednesday, Navarro was released from a federal prison in Miami, where he did time after being convicted of contempt of Congress for declining to testify to Democrats’ House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on the Capitol.

“If they come for me, if they come for Donald Trump, be careful, they will come after you,” Navarro said….

Gaetz: ‘They Can Run Biden From the Nursing Home’

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., asserted that the president Americans saw at the June debate, and which the media finally noticed, is the same Biden who has been in the White House for years.

“Democrats have been hiding the real Biden for years,” Gaetz said. “We saw people in the witness protection program more often than we saw unscripted Biden.”

“They can run Biden from the nursing home….”

Gingrich Accuses Biden of ‘Make-America-Weak Ideology’

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia contrasted Trump and Biden’s foreign policies and the results.

“Under Trump, we achieved peace through strength,” Gingrich said. “Under Biden, we have war, suffering, death, and a world teetering on the edge of World War III.”

The former House speaker criticized Biden for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan as well as weakness in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.

“The contrast between President Trump’s realistic policy of resolute strength in a dangerous world, and President Biden’s policies of appeasement, weakness, and self-delusion may be the biggest difference between the Make America Great Again movement and the Make-America-Weak ideology of the Left,” Gingrich said.

Abbott: ‘I Took the Border to Them’

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that when the Biden administration took 50 acres of land along the U.S.-Mexico border to process 5,000 illegal aliens a day, he directed the National Guard “to take back our land and wire it shut.”

Abbott said there are no longer 5,000 migrants per day trying to enter Texas….

The Republican governor said that when Biden administration officials refused to come to Texas to see the state of the southern border, “I took the border to them.” …

East Palestine Mayor: Biden Admin a ‘Train Wreck’

Trent Conaway, the mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, said there was a clear distinction between Trump and Biden’s response to the toxic train derailment in his small town on Feb. 23, 2023….

Conaway said Trump visited East Palestine shortly after the train derailment and met with first responders, local officials, and residents.

“He toured the derailment site. He listened to us and he shared a meal with local volunteers at McDonald’s. His presence was genuine,” the major said of Trump.

“After a year of criticism, President Biden finally did show up, his appearance was brief, forced, and scripted. He met with a select few and then left,” Conaway said. “We needed so much and he delivered so little.”

Burgum: A Warning of ‘Biden Blackouts and Brownouts’

Biden’s “war on energy” has raised the cost for every American, said North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who was reportedly in the final three for Trump’s choice to be his running mate.

“Biden’s green agenda feels like it was written by China, Russia, and Iran,” Burgum said, before specifying the president’s mandate to force Americans to drive electric vehicles….

Under Trump, the North Dakota governor said, America will be energy dominant….