LIVE FROM INSIDE THE CONVENTION HALL IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS AS WELL.

BUT FIRST, MORE ANALYSIS OF THIS EVENING'S FIRST NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

WE'RE JOINED AGAIN BY HEATHER HINDER SHOT, PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.

HER MOST RECENT BOOK WHEN THE NEWS BROKE IS ABOUT THE 1968 CHICAGO DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION SHE TEACHES ABOUT AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MEDIA AND AMERICAN POLITICS.

THANK YOU, HEATHER, FOR JOINING US AGAIN.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING SO LET'S START AGAIN.

LET'S TALK SOME MORE ABOUT THIS VERY DRAMATIC MOMENT WHEN A FORMER PRESIDENT SHOWED UP IN THE CONVENTION HALL TO A STANDING OVATION FROM SUPPORTERS.

HIS EAR CLEARLY BANDAGE FROM TAKING A BULLET ON SATURDAY.

HOW DO YOU THINK THIS MOMENT WILL PLAY FOR THE PARTY?

WELL, THEY KIND OF BUILT TO IT ALL NIGHT AS THE CLIMACTIC MOMENT AND THE WAY THAT THEY FRAMED IT WAS THAT THE ONE POINT SOMEONE SAID THE DEVIL DIDN'T SAY SATAN, BUT THEY SAID THAT THE DEVIL OR EVIL OR SOMETHING HAVE HAD UNDER 10 SKY, I BELIEVE HAD GUN AND GONE.

AND OF COURSE IT'S NOT A PRO GUN CONTROL RQ MINUTES IN NT DOUBLE ARGUMENT AND GOD HAD SORT OF STEPPED IN AND HELPED THE PRESIDENT.

FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP MOVE HIS HEAD EVER SO SLIGHTLY SO THAT HE WAS SAVED.

AND SO IT WAS REALLY SET UP AS A KIND OF.

RELIGIOUS MOMENT.

AND THEN HE SHOWS UP AS A KIND OF SAVIOR.

AND I DON'T MEAN TO OVERPLAYING SENT TO DRAMATIC.

BUT IT WAS A VERY IS HELD HIS FULL TO ME AND SORT OF MORE.

THERE'S ALWAYS A CLIMACTIC MOMENT WHEN YOUR CANDIDATE COMES IN, RIGHT?

THAT'S WHY THEY'RE THERE TO CELEBRATE THEIR CANDIDATE.

THAT WAS KIND OF AMPED UP TO A PRETTY HIGH LEVEL.

I YEAH.

AND SENATOR TIM SCOTT WAS NOT THE ONLY TO INVOKE RELIGION CHRISTIANITY THAT KIND OF SPIRITUAL IN AND, YOU KNOW, THANKING THE LORD IN AND TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THAT'S WHAT PLAYS INTO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S METRICS THERE.

THE IDEA THAT THEIR THEIR MAN IS LIKE THE CHOSEN ONE, RIGHT, THE CHOSEN CANDIDATE.

AND IT'S SO INTERESTING TO ME THAT HE'S GOING JD VANCE GIVEN THAT HE HAD AN EVANGELICAL RUNNING MATE BEFORE.

RIGHT IN THE PAST TENSE.

AND I THINK YOU KIND OF CHECK THAT AWFUL.

I'VE GOT THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT ON MY SIDE NOW THAT WORK WITH PENN SPENCE DID NOT DELIVER FOR MEAN TERMS OF THE TOTAL LOYALTY THAT I WANTED OVERTHROWING THE ELECTIONS.

SO ON.

SO WE CAN MOVE ON TO SOMEONE WHO WE'LL BE OF SOME APPEAL TO THAT CHRISTIAN BASE BUT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE AS OVERT ABOUT IT BECAUSE HE'S ALREADY TAPPED IN TO THE CHRISTIANS AND THEY'RE BRINGING THAT LANGUAGE INTO THEIR SPEECHES.

I'M KATIE, I'M I'M SORRY.

CAN'T REMEBER LESS IN THE ALABAMA SENATOR.

YES.

AND IF TALKING SPEECH, YOU KNOW, AFTER THE STATE OF THE UNION, SHE WAS THERE IN A SIMILAR KIND OF POSE A REALLY INVOKING THE SPEECH THAT 4, EVEN THOUGH THAT WAS IN HER KITCHEN, RIGHT WITH ACROSS SHOWING AND SO ON.

SO WE'RE STILL FEELING A STRONG KIND OF CHRISTIAN RIGHT PRESENCE, EVEN WITH PENCE OFF THE TICKET AS WE REMEMBER THE CONVENTION WAS LARGELY VIRTUAL.

WE KNOW THAT THE REPUBLICANS HAVE A LOT MORE IN-PERSON SPEECHES ON AND AUDIENCES AND THE DEMOCRATS DID THAT YEAR.

BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE PARTY TO BE ABLE TO GET BACK TOGETHER IN PERSON AND TO CREATE THIS KIND OF PRODUCTION?

IT'S HUGE FOR BOTH PARTIES AND IN A WAY, I MEAN, JUST TO GIVE SOME HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON IT, THE GOAL OF THE PARTIES IS ALWAYS BEEN WE WANT TO CONTROL THE SPECTACLE.

WE WANT TO CREATE A TV SHOW.

WE JUST WANT THE NETWORKS TO SHOW UP AND AND THE CABLE CHANNELS AND SHOW OUR SHOW RIGHT AND HAVE TOTAL CONTROL AND SOMETIMES BACKFIRES IN 1968, THEY DIDN'T CONTROL THE SITUATION.

RIGHT.

FOR THE DEMOCRATS LOOK VERY BAD IN CHICAGO.

IN 1964, THE REPUBLICANS HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THEIR CANDIDATE, BIG GARRY, BARRY GOLDWATER, WHO WASN'T, YOU KNOW, EXTREMIST.

SO 2020 IN SOME WAYS WAS LIKE THE DREAM COME TRUE NOT TO BE TOO FLIPPANT ABOUT THE CRISIS OF COVID.

BUT IN THIS LOCKDOWN SITUATION, YOU COULD COMPLETELY CONTROL THE SHOW OF WHAT YOUR PARTY WAS.

SO THAT THE DEMOCRATS SHOW DEMOCRACY IN ACTION THROUGH THEIR VISUALS, GOING STATE TO STATE HAVING PEOPLE SAY, YOU KNOW, THE GREAT STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, WE HAVE FRIED CALAMARI AND HOLD UP THE WE GIVE OUR DELEGATES DELEGATES.

YOU KNOW, CAN WE GET OUR VOTES TO BIDEN?

YOU KNOW, AND IT WAS KIND OF BEAUTIFUL SERIES OF IMAGES OUTSIDE AND THEN THE REPUBLICANS ARE IN THIS KIND OF HER MEDICS PACE SPEAKING TO THE CAMERA PAUSING CHEERING WHEN NOT EXIST, DOESN'T EXIST.

AND SO IT ENDED UP FEELING AUTHORITARIAN ARE ON THE HEAVY HANDED SIDE COMPARED THE DEMOCRATS WHO FELT VERY OPEN AND SO ON.

NOW WE'RE BACK TO NORMAL AS IT WERE THE REGULAR KIND OF CONVENTION HALL, A SITUATION AND IT'S THE FIRST TIME WE'VE SEEN TRUMP WITH HIS PARTY.

IN REGULAR CONVENTION.

TOTALLY UNITED BEHIND THINK BACK TO 2016, YOU STILL HAVE PEOPLE THERE WHO HAVE BEEN RALLYING FOR TED CRUZ OR MAYBE MARCO RUBIO WHATEVER.

AND HE WAS BRINGING PARTY TOGETHER AND THEN IS 16.

IT'S THIS WEIRD INDOORS COVID MOMENT AND NOW WE'RE BACK AND IT'S THE PARTY OF TRUMP, THE GOP THAT EXISTED BEFORE IS IS NO LONGER SITS, RIGHT?

IT'S PARTY OF TRUMP.

TONIGHT'S AS WE'VE MENTIONED, WAS MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY ONCE AGAIN.

AND I NOTICED, THOUGH, THE ONCE CREEPING INTO THE MEDICINES VERSUS MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY AGAIN, IT'S MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY ONCE CONVENTION, YOU KNOW, PLAYING CAMPAIGN ADS FEATURING EVERYDAY AMERICANS DISCUSSING THE COUNTRY'S CURRENT ECONOMIC STATE SINGLE WORKING MOTHER DELIVERED A SPEECH ON THE STAGE THIS EVENING WITH A SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR ECONOMIC MESSAGING.

TONIGHT.

WELL, THERE'S DEFINITELY SOME MISLEADING STATEMENTS ABOUT THE STATE THE ECONOMY AND SO ON AND THERE'S NO MENTION OF TAX BREAKS FOR THE WEALTHY AND A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT YOU KNOW HAPPENED IN THE LAST ADMINISTRATION, I WAS REALLY STRUCK AS A MEDIA STORY BY THAT MOMENT WHERE THE WOMAN SAID I'M A SINGLE MOTHER NIGHT.

I FLASH BACK TO DAN QUAYLE ATTACKING MURPHY.

BROWN'S WAS AGES AGO FOR BEING A SINGLE MOTHER ON TELEVISION AND HOW THE SHOW THE DECLINE OF AMERICA DECLINED OUR MORALITY.

AND SO ON IT WE CAME MAJOR REPUBLICAN TALKING POINT SOMEHOW MURPHY BROWN AROUND.

YEAH, RIGHT.

AND THEN THIS WOMAN SAYS, YOU KNOW, I'M A SINGLE MOTHER AND I THOUGHT.

THEY ACTUALLY SPEAKING OUT TO SINGLE MOTHERS RIGHT NOW AND THEN SHE GOT TO THIS POINT WHERE IT'S CLEAR HAS BEEN HAVE DIED BECAUSE OF THE OPIOID CRISIS.

AND IT WAS WE'RE KIND OF SHIFT LIKE WE'RE NOT FOR SINGLE MOTHERS IS JUST THIS WOMAN HAS ENJOYED THIS TRAGEDY AND SHE STARTED TO CRY A LITTLE BIT.

WAS HIGH MELODRAMA IN THE CROWD.

WHAT KIND WILD AND IT FELT I'M NOT TO IN ANY WAY DEMEAN HER.

STORY.

AND SO A NUDGE TO BE UNSYMPATHETIC TO HER STORY.

BUT IT FELT LIKE CLIMACTIC, HOW A VISUAL MOMENT OF MELODRAMA, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD BE WATCHING AN EPISODE OF THE WEST WING AND SEE THIS KIND DRAMA PLAY OUT IN FRONT OF YOU WRITE WRITE AN EMOTIONAL MOMENT, OBVIOUSLY AND VERY EMOTIONALLY PLAYING TO THE TO THE EMOTIONS OF THIS WOMAN, AS YOU SAID, WHO HAS HAS YOU KNOW, A TERRIBLE, A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

A COUPLE OF JABS AT PRESIDENT BIDEN'S PHYSICAL A NUMBER OF THEM, YOU KNOW, REFERRING TO, IS HE AWAKE AND REFERRING TO HIS NAPS AND HIS HIS WORK HOURS.

I THINK ONE OF THE SPEAKERS REFERRED TO THE ECONOMY AND PRESIDENT BIDEN BEING IN BLAMING HIS ADMINISTRATION FOR PROBLEMS LIKE HIGH INFLATION, HIGH INTEREST, HIGH TAXES THAT JABAL A VEGETABLE.

A VERY STRONG WORD.

YES, I'M GOING TO CALL FROM THE BOARD.

YEAH, I DID NOTE THAT, BUT I WAS A LITTLE SURPRISING.

THIS MAY CHANGE OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

THERE WASN'T MORE ENERGY SPENT ON BIDEN.

IT WAS MORE BOOSTING THEIR SIDE WERE SAYING BIDEN HAD FAILED BUT NOT LAYING INTO THE PERSONAL TRAITS.

KIND OF AS MUCH AS I THOUGHT AND I HEARD EARLIER TODAY, SOMEWHERE HER TO KAMALA HARRIS'S IMMIGRANTS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT THAT I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE LEANING A LITTLE BIT INTO KAMALA HARRIS WITH THE IDEA.

MAYBE SHE'S GOING TO BE THE NOMINEE.

AND SO THEY'RE KIND OF HOLDING BACK ON BIDEN IN CASE THEY NEED TO LAY INTO AN ATTACK ON ON HARRIS.

AND I'M NOT SURE THAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE ANY OF THAT RESULT OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

BUT MAYBE THEY'RE HEDGING THEIR BETS A LITTLE BIT RIGHT.

AND THAT WAS MY NEXT QUESTION BECAUSE I DID HEAR THEM USE HER NAME QUITE A IT MORE THAN EXPECT CERTAIN ON THE FIRST NIGHT AND LINKING THEM TOGETHER QUITE A BIT.

AND IT MADE ME KIND OF QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE DOING THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, JUST IN CASE THERE'S THE CHANCE THAT THAT SHE ENDS UP BEING THE NOMINEE.

I THINK THEY'RE LAYING THE GROUNDWORK A LITTLE BIT THERE.

KIND OF SETTING UP THE NARRATIVE THAT THAT THEY'LL GO ON THE ATTACK AGAINST HER POTENTIALLY FOR THE DEMOCRATS WHO THINK THAT MAKES IT CONFUSING BECAUSE IF YOU KNOW, BY WHATEVER CIRCUMSTANCE, YOU KNOW, PRESIDENT BIDEN SHOULD STEP DOWN.

AND IF VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS IS NOT THE THEY SPENT ALL THAT TIME WORKING VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS RIGHT WITHOUT ANY OF SOMEBODY ELSE.

BUT I DO ONLY THE FUTURE WILL WILL TELL WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.

YOU KNOW, WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT TONING DOWN THE RHETORIC EVERYONE HAS CALLED FOR IN THE LAST FEW DAYS IN THE WAKE OF THIS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP.

DID YOU HEARING ANY OF THAT?

DID YOU HEAR ANY TONE DOWN RHETORIC?

FEEL LIKE THE KIND OF TOOK THE MIDDLE GROUND.

YOU KNOW, THEY WEREN'T.

I CHARLIE KIRK UP THERE, RIGHT?

WHO IS ON THE MORE EXTREME POINT TURNED YEAH, RIGHT.

BUT THEY WEREN'T LEANING INTO THAT INCENDIARY.

KIND VIOLENT RHETORIC.

AND I THINK THERE THERE WERE SORT OF BOTH DURING THEIR OWN HERO LIGHT BOLSTERING TRUMP AND PREPARING FOR HIS PRESENCE IN THE SORT OF DRAMATIC MOMENT RATHER THAN AT THAT MOMENT LAYING INTO THE DEMOCRATS CAUSED THIS TO HAPPEN THROUGH.

AND WHAT I'VE BEEN SEEING IN THE MEDIA THE PAST FEW DAYS THAT THE TALKING POINTS, THE REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN LIKE THAT THE DEMOCRAT, GLOBAL MEDIA IS TO BLAME FOR THIS, THAT THEY'RE TALKING SO MUCH AND IN JD VANCE HIMSELF.

AND THIS MAY BE WHY YOU GOT THE NOMINATION REALLY ULTIMATELY, HE SAID BASICALLY AND YOU MAY REMEMBER THE EXACT QUOTE BETTER THAN I DO.

BUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT BY CONSTANTLY SAYING THAT THAT TRUMP IS SOME KIND OF AUTHORITARIAN FASCIST.

THEY CRY.

THEY MADE THIS HAPPEN.

WHERE?

I THINK I COULD REMEMBER THE JD VANCE, QUOTE,