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In today’s edition, exclusively for newsletter readers, we check in with Antonia Hitchens at the Republican National Convention. Plus: • The far-right activists planning for a second Trump Administration • Benjamin Wallace-Wells on J. D. Vance as Trump’s V.P. pick • Eliza Griswold on the day after an assassination attempt Ian Crouch Newsletter editor Our reporter Antonia Hitchens arrived last night in Milwaukee, where delegates were being bused from their hotels to the opening celebration of the Republican National Convention. They were greeted with a huge display of fireworks and a scene that Hitchens described to me as one of “jovial normalcy,” just a day after Saturday’s shooting in Pennsylvania. Today, looking out over the floor of the immense convention center, Hitchens saw people in seersucker suits, red dresses, cowboys hats, the usual MAGA gear. “Life Is a Highway” blasted over the loudspeakers as the delegates took their seats. “Thus far, all the rituals are intact,” Hitchens told me, “and the pageantry is proceeding exactly apace.” Members of the color guard practicing on Sunday. | Photograph by Sinna Nasseri One thing, notably, had shifted. The buzzwords of the day from delegates and campaign officials were “unity” and “positivity”—notions that have not typically been woven into Trump’s stump speeches. “The Republican Party wants to unite all Americans,” a delegate from Florida, who was excited to attend his first convention, said. “The Party has an inclusive message. The message hasn’t changed at all. This has been the message of Donald Trump all along.” Inside the Trump Plan for 2025 A network of well-funded far-right activists is preparing for the former President’s return to the White House. Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato Members of the Conservative Partnership Institute were instrumental in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Now its partners are helping to craft a slate of radical initiatives to enact in a second Trump Administration. In this week’s issue, Jonathan Blitzer reports on the proposed plans—including harsh limits on immigration, the implementation of steep tariffs, tighter executive control of the Justice Department, a crackdown on civil protesters, and other goals—that even someone from the far-right wing of the Republican Party identified as genuinely scary. Read or listen to the story Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » The Political Scene Why Donald Trump Picked J. D. Vance for Vice-President The Ohio senator is an attack dog for the former President, but he is also something more emergent and interesting: he is the fuse that Trump lit. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Dispatch The Day After Donald Trump’s Shooting In Butler County, Pennsylvania, where the assassination attempt occurred, shock gave way to the conviction that Trump will be the next President. By Eliza Griswold If you know someone who would enjoy this newsletter, please share it. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up. John Cassidy How Trumponomics Could Undermine the U.S. Economy Source photograph by Eva Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg / Getty Donald Trump’s America First agenda would likely lead to higher inflation, a damaging trade war, and maybe even a recession, John Cassidy writes. Some members of the business community seem convinced that Trump’s policies would simply be a redux of his first term. “But a victorious Trump would be inheriting a very different economy than the one he inherited in January of 2017,” Cassidy explains. Read more » John Cassidy’s column, The Financial Page, publishes every Monday. The Talk of the Town Illustration by João Fazenda The Paris Olympics will be hosting some of its swimming events in the Seine. But the river was recently determined to contain more than ten times the acceptable level of E. coli bacteria. Undeterred, one septuagenarian American expat decided to take a public dip. Lauren Collins was on hand to witness the plunge. Read more » Fifty Days of Flash Fiction Flash Fiction The Weight “Now it was hard to tell if the plane was still turning, or if it was just falling.” By Anne Enright Fun & Games Dept.  Daily Cartoon Monday, July 15th By Brendan Loper  Crossword A Challenging Puzzle Photographer who shot the cover photo for the album “Whitney”: six letters. By Elizabeth C. Gorski Name Drop: Can you guess the identity of a notable person—contemporary or historical—in six clues? Play a quiz from our archive » P.S. The fitness celebrity Richard Simmons died on Saturday, at the age of seventy-six. Famous for decades, Simmons became a figure of fascination for a new generation late in his life, owing to the popularity of the “Missing Richard Simmons” podcast. Sarah Larson analyzed the uneasy ethics of the show’s approach.

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