RNC dashboard
28 August 2020
🗓 What's happening: President Trump speaks tonight on the final night of the Republican National Convention. What to expect.
⚡Flashback: What Trump said about "law and order" at his 2016 RNC speech.
🚨 Highlights from Night 4:
- Ivanka Trump says she's seen "the pain" in her father's eyes when he hears about COVID deaths
- McConnell at RNC: "We are the firewall against Nancy Pelosi’s agenda"
- Ben Carson defends Trump against accusations of racism
- Rudy Giuliani rails against Black Lives Matter, Antifa and De Blasio
- Trump aide Ja'Ron Smith: "I have seen his true conscience"
- Alice Johnson, whose life sentence was commuted by Trump, addresses RNC
- Tom Cotton accuses Biden of aiding and abetting China's rise for 50 years
📝 Between the lines:How Trump could pull off another upset.
- 🎧 Listen to Axios' Mike Allen talk about Trump's path to re-election on our daily podcast, Axios Today.
📸 The big picture: The GOP convention is a Trumpian production.
- 🙅♂️ Mark Meadowsdownplays RNC Hatch Act concerns after presidential pardon, naturalization ceremony.
🔵 The other side:
- Biden hits back at Pence over RNC speech: The violence is in "Donald Trump's America"
- Kamala Harris: The RNC is designed "to soothe Donald Trump's ego"
🗣️ Schedule: This week's convention speakers.
Other speakers on Night 4:
- Ivanka Trump
- HUD Secretary Ben Carson
- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
- Sen. Tom Cotton
- House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
- Rudy Giuliani
- Franklin Graham
- Alice Johnson (granted clemency by Trump)
- UFC President Dana White
Highlights from Night 1: Trump's alternative reality.
- Donald Trump Jr.: Silent majority could become "silenced majority" — Sen. Tim Scott goes after Biden on race
- McCloskeys endorse Trump at RNC — Nikki Haley speech: "America is not a racist country"
Highlights from Night 2:
- Melania Trump acknowledged COVID-19's impact on America
- GOP speakers targeted the media
- Mike Pompeo lauded Trump for "bold initiatives in every corner of the world"
- Tiffany Trump: The president has been the "only person to challenge the establishment"
Highlights from Night 3:
- Vice President Mike Pence briefly addresses Kenosha: "The violence must stop"
- Rep. Dan Crenshaw doesn't mention Trump by name
- Kellyanne Conway: Trump has "elevated women"
- Pence national security adviser Keith Kellogg: "Trump is no hawk"
- Kayleigh McEnany shares personal story at RNC about preventative mastectomy
- 25-year-old GOP candidate: "In times of peril, young people saved this country"
- Trump's former spy chief Richard Grenell: Being called a "nationalist" is not an insult
👉 Go deeper:Axios full 2020 convention coverage
Transcripts show George Floyd told police "I can't breathe" over 20 times
Section2Newly released transcripts of bodycam footage from the Minneapolis Police Department show that George Floyd told officers he could not breathe more than 20 times in the moments leading up to his death.
Why it matters: Floyd's killing sparked a national wave of Black Lives Matter protests and an ongoing reckoning over systemic racism in the United States. The transcripts "offer one the most thorough and dramatic accounts" before Floyd's death, The New York Times writes.
The state of play: The transcripts were released as former officer Thomas Lane seeks to have the charges that he aided in Floyd's death thrown out in court, per the Times. He is one of four officers who have been charged.
- The filings also include a 60-page transcript of an interview with Lane. He said he "felt maybe that something was going on" when asked if he believed that Floyd was having a medical emergency at the time.
What the transcripts say:
- Floyd told the officers he was claustrophobic as they tried to get him into the squad car.
- The transcripts also show Floyd saying, "Momma, I love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead."
- Former officer Derek Chauvin, who had his knee on Floyd's neck for over eight minutes, told Floyd, "Then stop talking, stop yelling, it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk."
Read the transcripts via DocumentCloud.