Live from the RNC: Republicans Are Acting Like They've Already Won

“We perceive each the speech astir what's going to hap with Joe Biden,” Minnesota politician Tim Walz told reporters during the conference. “The bully happening is, with the Republicans, they don't person overmuch part wrong their party. They crook the genu and look up to idiosyncratic who told america that the predetermination was stolen. Someone who overturned Roe v. Wade. Somebody who told america helium didn't cognize thing astir NATO arsenic helium puts each of our futures astatine risk.”

In caller weeks, Democrats person seen immoderate occurrence successful tying Trump to Project 2025, adjacent if Biden hasn’t done a full batch of talking astir it. And Democrats mightiness beryllium losing crushed here. Despite voters becoming progressively alert of Project 2025, Republicans don’t look frightened that it volition wounded their reelection chances. Instead, GOP operatives and anonymous X users are trying to crook the full task into a meme.

“Under task 2025 we’re putting zyn trucks connected each thoroughfare corner,” Logan Hall, who does integer enactment for The Blaze, posted past week.

“Project 2025 volition bring backmost mcdonalds outdoor playgrounds,” wrote an relationship with wojacks connected its illustration header.

If they’re not making amusive of Project 2025, the Republican Party has seemingly forgotten each astir it (or ne'er adjacent heard of it). And aft spending the amended portion of the Biden medication warring disconnected indictments and scandals, the GOP is yet wherever it wants to be: partying similar nary of it ever adjacent happened, and preparing for victory.

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What Else We’re Reading

🔗 Trump connected What He’d Do With Taxes, Tariffs, Jerome Powell, and More: In a lengthy interrogation with Bloomberg, Trump promises not to prohibition TikTok oregon pardon himself if he’s reelected successful November. (Bloomberg)

🔗 New $299 Trump Sneakers Show Ex-President successful Aftermath of Shooting: Trump’s sneaker crippled is expanding aft Saturday, making disposable for acquisition a caller brace of shoes donning the infamous shooting image. (Axios)

🔗 How a Network of Tech Billionaires Helped J.D. Vance Leap Into Power: From his narration with Peter Thiel to his inheritance successful Silicon Valley, New York Times reporters Ryan Mac and Teddy Schleifer laic retired however Vance won Trump’s favor. (New York Times)

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