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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Anne McElvoy

Melania, Hulk Hogan and Russell Brand: inside the glitziest Trump show yet

The lines of delegates snaking their way through security checks in the baking Milwaukee sun began hours before Donald Trump’s speech to the Republican convention. A rallying event following an attempted assassination has this week become a springboard to a November presidential victory for Trump which looks more nailed on by the day.

Heather Sprague, a delegate from Maine, was wearing a stretch dress emblazoned with Trump: Make America Great Again logos. A few steps away a small boy was dressed in a red Maga hat and tribute navy Trump suit. Glitzy ladies in pointed stilettos with bouncy  blow-dried hairdos fought for space.

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