Alex Thompson: A newly unified GOP

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Based on this week's Republican National Convention, the assassination attempt on former President Trump seems to have unified the GOP. Alex Thompson is national political correspondent for Axios, and he says while conventions often put cleavages and frictions on display, Saturday's events have made many of those frictions within the party virtually disappear. Alex joins us for a special episode from the RNC in Milwaukee to lead us through this moment for the GOP. Plus: Axios' Sophia Cai recounts the threats she and other journalists faced after the Saturday shooting. Guests: Alex Thompson, Axios national political correspondent; Sophia Cai, national politics reporter at Axios. Credits: 1 big thing is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Alexandra Botti, and Jay Cowit. Music is composed by Alex Sugiura and Jay Cowit. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can send questions, comments and story ideas as a text or voice memo to Niala at 202-918-4893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	presidential nominating conventions can put a party's friction on display.
0:09.4	But in Milwaukee this week for Republicans?
0:13.0	I think after the shooting on Saturday,
0:17.0	a lot of those cleavages and frictions just simply disappeared.
0:21.0	Axieces is Alex. simply disappeared.
0:28.0	Ax uses Alex Thompson on new unity in the GOP. Plus, blame on journalists in the aftermath of political violence.
0:32.0	It's hard not to let it rattle you,
0:34.0	but I feel like the job is to not let it rattle you.
0:37.0	I'm Nailaboodoo, and for playing the moment many people have heard and seen many times over.
0:56.2	The assassination attempt of former President Trump this past weekend.
1:00.3	Instead, I want to talk about what has come after.
1:03.4	Based on what we've seen at this week's Republican National Convention
1:07.0	in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that historic moment
1:10.6	has helped solidify the Republican Party, whose leaders have firmly gathered around
1:15.1	Donald Trump.
1:16.1	We need to come together.
1:20.1	President Trump asked me to speak to this convention in the name of unity.
1:27.0	Together, unified, we will win.
1:30.0	And we have banded together to preserve freedom.
1:33.6	Actually much more united than people believe.
1:36.8	Because that is who we are as Americans.
1:39.6	We are the country where we can disagree like hell and still get together at the dinner table at the end of it. I'm here tonight because we have a country to save and a unified Republican Party is essential for saving her.
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