Closing summary
Thanks for reading our coverage of the second evening of the Republican national convention.
Delegates will return to Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum at 5.45pm CT tomorrow for the third session of the convention. The four-day event concludes on Thursday.
Here’s a look back at what happened this evening:
Nikki Haley gave Donald Trump her “strong endorsement”, and tried to sway wary Republicans to his cause.
Ron DeSantis launched a volley of attacks on Joe Biden, in a stark contrast with Haley that underscored the ultimately unsuccessful strategies both deployed as candidates to try to win the GOP’s presidential nomination instead of Trump.
Trump and his running mate JD Vance both returned to the convention to watch the primetime speakers, though neither gave remarks.
Biden said in an interview with BET that only a “medical condition” would convince him to abandon his run for re-election, despite ongoing concern over his fitness to continue serving.
Kari Lake, the GOP nominee for Senate in Arizona, kicked the evening off with an acerbic attack on journalists in the convention hall.
Elise Stefanik, the House Republican conference chair, boasted of her role in getting the presidents of two top universities to resign.
House Speaker Mike Johnson described the country as locked in “a struggle between two completely different visions of who we are”.
Lara Trump closed the evening with a speech all about “the Donald Trump that I know.”
Second night of Republican national convention concludes
With a bang of his oversized gavel, Michael Whatley, the chair of the Republican national convention, has concluded its second night.
Stay tuned as we present a look back at what happened this evening.
