SLASH NEWS.

WITH MORE PERSPECTIVE ON THIS WEEK'S REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

WE ARE JOINED HERE IN THE STUDIO BY HEATHER AND ARE SHOT.

SHE IS THE CARTERS COLLINS, PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES AND JOURNALISM AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.

ALSO MOST RECENTLY WROTE AND ANALYSIS ON THE 1968 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN CHICAGO, A BOOK TITLED WHEN THE NEWS BROKE.

SHE JOINS US NOW TO TALK ABOUT MORE OF WHAT'S AT STAKE FOR THE REPUBLICANS IN THEIR MESSAGE FOR THE WEEK.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

HEATHER.

THANKS FOR HAVING ME.

IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE.

SO OF COURSE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S ELECTION OF OHIO, SENATOR JD VANCE TO BE HIS RUNNING MATE.

ALTHOUGH FANS IS A ANOTHER WHITE MAN FROM A RED STATE, HE'S STILL QUITE DIFFERENT FROM MIKE PENCE.

THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND OF COURSE, VICE PRESIDENT.

WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT TRUMP IS TRYING TO DO OR SAY WITH THE SELECTION?

WOW.

WELL, I MEAN, JD VANCE, OF COURSE, DECLARE ITSELF A NEVER TRUMPER SOME YEARS AGO.

AND HIS BOOK HILLBILLY ELEGY, WHICH SOLD SO WELL WAS A VERY CONVENTIONAL IN SOME WAYS, YOU KNOW, RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE BOOK OF ANTI WELFARE AND ANTI ELITES, RIGHT, WHICH IS A TALKING POINT OF THE RIGHT WITH LOT OF TRACTION AND HE WOULD MADE SENSE AS A AS A CANDIDATE OR AS A VICE PRESIDENT THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.

BACK WHEN PENCE WAS CHOSEN.

I THINK TRUMP NEEDED PANTS TOO.

BOLSTER THE CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN, RIGHT?

YOU KNOW, AND IN BECAUSE OF HIS MORAL ISSUES THIS AND SO ON.

I THINK THAT TRUMP PROBABLY FEELS LIKE SORT OF GOT THAT VOTING BLOC.

NOW AND THAT VANCE WILL BOLSTER THE RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE MAGA CROWD THAT HE ALREADY HAS.

HE'S VERY MEDIA JANNIK, RIGHT COMPARED TO PENCE.

HE'S SORT OF YOUNGER, MORE HANDSOME AND HE'S A LOYALIST.

HE'S A FIERCE LOYALIST.

NOW, PENCE, OF COURSE, WAS A LOYALIST BUT NOT WILLING TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION.

AND SO ON.

AND I THINK HE FEELS THAT THIS TIME AROUND, HE'S GOING TO HAVE MORE LOYALIST THAN HE DID LAST TIME.

THIS IS THE 3RD TIME THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS NOMINATED.

DONALD TRUMP HAS THE MESSAGING CHANGED AT ALL THIS TIME AROUND?

HE'S LEANING INTO THE AUTHORITARIANISM IN EXTREMISM THAT WAS THERE BEFORE HE NOW HAS THESE ATTACK AGAINST BIDEN AND HUGHES, HIS AGE AND HIS FITNESS FOR OFFICE AND SO ON.

AND THAT WAS NOT A BIG THING ON THE TABLE.

YOU KNOW, 4 YEARS AGO.

SO HE'S GOING TO HARD INTO THAT.

AND THEN HIS THAT THIS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT TO SOMETHING ELSE THAT HE CAN LEAN INTO.

THAT, OF COURSE, WAS UNFORESEEN.

AND I THINK PEOPLE ARE RIGHT TO PREDICT THAT THIS HE WILL BENEFIT FROM THAT.

LET'S GET INTO THAT JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE.

HOW HOW MIGHT THE HOW HAS IT CHANGED IN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS AND HOW MIGHT CHANGE GOING FORWARD SINCE ATTEMPT?

I MEAN, YOU'VE GOT DEMOCRATS SAYING LET'S BRING THAT THE TEMPERATURE DOWN.

THIS IS NOT AMERICA.

WE SHOULD NOT ACT IN THE STANDS.

SO AND SO FORTH.

AND I THINK THAT TRUMP IS EAGER TO BRING THE TEMPERATURE UP TO TURN UP THE FLAME UNDER THIS WHOLE THING.

AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT IMAGES FROM JUST MOMENTS AFTER HE WAS INJURED, HE'S GOT BLOOD ON HIS FACE AND THE SECRET SERVICE IS DOING THEIR JOB.

LET'S GET YOU OUT OF HERE.

AND HE SAYS YOU HEAR THE AUDIO.

HE'S STOP, STOP.

WAIT.

AND HE PUTS FIST UP AND HE SAYS, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT.

THAT IS INFLAMMATORY RHETORIC.

HE IS TELLING HIS FOLLOWERS NOT, YOU KNOW, LET'S PRAY FOR PEACE, THE KINDS THINGS THAT A VERY POLITICALLY DIFFERENT KIND OF PERSON WOULD SAY.

HE IS DELIBERATELY SAYING LET'S TURN THE VOLUME ON THIS WHOLE THING.

UP IN A BRILLIANT MOMENT OF RALLYING THAT AUDIENCE BECAUSE THEY ALL CHEERED FOR HIM.

THE NEXT TURNED AROUND AND BEGAN TO SAY LOTS OF MEAN THINGS TO THE MEDIA.

EXACTLY WHO WHO WERE SHARING THIS EVENT WORLDWIDE.