“THE MORNING MEETING” DAYBOOK
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2024
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DAYBOOK, all Eastern Time
* Joe Biden
3:15pm ET: the President participates in a radio interview with Univision in Las Vegas
4:30pm ET: the President delivers remarks at UnidosUS Annual Conference in Las Vegas
11:50pm ET: the President arrives in Dover, Delaware
12:20am ET: the President arrives in Rehoboth Beach
* Kamala Harris
11:45am ET: the Vice President will depart Washington, DC en route to Kalamazoo, MI
2:25pm ET: the Vice President will deliver remarks and participate in a moderated conversation at a political event
3:35pm ET: the Vice President will depart Kalamazoo en route to Washington DC
* Donald Trump has no public events currently scheduled, but a betting person would wager, once again, that he will make an appearance inside the convention hall during primetime, especially to watch his newly selected running mate, JD Vance, accept the nomination.
While the theme of the evening is “Make America Strong Once Again,” with a focus on national security and foreign policy, the entire rest of the roster for the Republican’s Wednesday convention schedule is TBD/TBA.
New York Times, touting Richard Grenell as a possible speaker this evening:
The speakers will focus on energy independence, border security and Mr. Trump’s “peace through strength” approach to foreign policy.
Educated guesses about other speakers: Congressional Republicans from the national security wing of the party; former Trump administration officials, retired military leaders, Doug Burgum (on energy), some foreign leaders, Democrats who will tout Trump over Biden on keeping America safe.
Holed up at his Milwaukee hotel, Trump is, in fact, receiving various guests:
“The Morning Meeting” topics:
How will JD Vance do tonight?
How is Team Trump’s effective use of “everyday people” helping his campaign?
What are the impacts of the rejection of the Republican establishment by the Trump Party?
Will Melania speak?
How alive is the “No Go Joe” movement?
Will Joe Biden’s Supreme Court reform plan succeed?
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ESSENTIAL READING
* Politico, on how Republican confidence that Trump will beat Biden and the selection of Vance has:
accelerated conversations here about who should fill Trump’s cabinet, the sort of discussions that usually begin taking place in the fall.
* New York Times, also, on the level of Republican confidence:
It has been decades since those at any Republican convention felt quite so confident — even optimistic — that they had the right candidate, the right causes and the right moment….
As Democrats debated whether President Biden should be their party’s nominee, Republicans were a party unfettered by doubt. They presented a united front, and many rounds of I-told-you-so’s. Republicans had been proven right, they claimed, about the border, about Covid pandemic lockdowns, about inflation, about Mr. Biden’s mental acuity, about antisemitism on college campuses.
* Another New York Times, on the donor class feeling powerless to get Biden to step aside:
Joe Ravitch, a top Hollywood banker and a longtime Democratic fund-raiser, said that even before the debate, he had conditioned his giving on pushing for a change at the top of the ticket. But he sounded dour about whether his advocacy would accomplish much.
“I can’t figure out who — if anyone — has influence over this, but donors certainly don’t, regardless of what we do,” Mr. Ravitch said. “And to speak out publicly against the president only helps undermine him. It’s a Catch-22.”
Mr. Biden has had relatively few defenders among the country’s biggest donors. Democratic insiders say that most major donors want him to step aside.
