HELLO AND THANKS FOR JOINING US ON CHICAGO TONIGHT FOR OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

BRANDIS FRIEDMAN, GOP NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT.

DONALD TRUMP IS TAKING THE STAGE ON THE FINAL NIGHT OF THE CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE.

IT CAPS OFF 4 DAYS OF SPEECHES FROM SOME OF HIS BIGGEST BACKERS ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS CAST DOUBT TODAY ON WHETHER THEY'LL UNCONDITIONALLY ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THIS YEAR'S ELECTION.

AMANDA FINICKY JOINS US NOW FROM INSIDE MILWAUKEE'S PFIZER FORM MORE.

AMANDA.

IN THE DAYS AFTER THE 2020 ELECTION, TRUMP REFUTED THE RESOLVE.

4 YEARS LATER, HE STILL MAINTAINS WITHOUT EVIDENCE THAT HE I'D LIKE TO PROVIDE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WITH AN UPDATE ON OUR EFFORTS TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF A VERY IMPORTANT 2020 ELECTION.

IF YOU COUNT THE LEGAL VOTES, I EASILY WIN.

IF YOU COUNT THE ILLEGAL VOTES, THEY CAN TRY TO STEAL.

THE ELECTION FROM US.

WHICH IS WHY TODAY I ASKED ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO ARE PART OF ILLINOIS DELEGATION TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

ABOUT THIS YEAR'S ELECTION.

SO WE'VE SEEN NONE OF THAT AT THIS CONVENTION.

NOT ANYTHING RELATED TO WHAT HAPPENED THE ELECTION IN 2020.

EVERYTHING HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON THE FUTURE THIS AN IS AN ELECTION INTEGRITY, IMPORTANT.

YES, IT IS.

IN 2020 WERE THERE IMPROPRIETIES?

OF COURSE THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT SHOULDN'T VOTED VOTED.

ILLEGALS VOTED, VOTED.

HE'S RIGHT.

THAT FROM SURGEONS HAVE NOT MADE ELECTION DENIAL.

A KEY PART OF THE RNC, PERHAPS THAT IS BECAUSE DESPITE NUMEROUS INVESTIGATIONS, THERE IS NO PROOF OF VOTING IRREGULARITIES THAT IMPACTED THE RESULTS OF THAT PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST.

OR HAS THERE BEEN EVIDENCE OF WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD IN ILLINOIS.

EVEN SO THE ONLY REPUBLICAN PARTY IS REDOUBLING ITS ELECTION INTEGRITY EFFORTS, OUTGOING CHAIR JOHN TRACY SAYS HE'S EXPANDED THE PROGRAM FROM JUST BEFORE THE ELECTION TO YOUR ROUTE.

USED TO BE.

WE ELECTION DAY.

NOW WE HAVE ELECTION A SEASON.

IT USED TO BE WE DIDN'T HAVE SAME DAY REGISTRATION AND NOW WE DO.

AND THAT CREATES CHAOS FOR THE COUNTY CLERKS IN ILLINOIS ADMINISTER THE ELECTION USED TO BE THAT WE COUNTY THE BALLOTS ON ELECTION NIGHT AND WE TALKED, WE STOPPED RECEIVING THEM IN ILLINOIS.

NOW THEY COME IN FOR GAME DAYS LATER.

ILLINOIS GIVES THOSE 2 THAT BALLOTS HAVE THEIR TIME TO BALLOTS HAVE BEEN MAILED IN.

THAT IS HALF THEIR TIME TO WORK THEIR WAY THROUGH THE POSTAL SYSTEM THAT CAN CAUSE A DELAY IN CALLING CLOSE CONTESTS.

NOW, TRACY SUCCESSOR KATHY SELBY SAYS THAT SHE IS GOING TO KEEP THIS UP AS A CORE PRINCIPLE OF THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY.

ALL ABOUT ELECTION INTEGRITY.

AND EVERY SINGLE CHEAT SHOULD BE DISCOVERED UNCOVERED AND DISCOUNTED AND EVERY SINGLE LEGITIMATE VOTE SHOULD BE COUNTED.

PRESSED HER ON WHETHER SHE ACCEPT THE RESULT THIS YEAR'S ELECTION.

WHAT EVER THOSE RESULTS MAY BE.

SHE BROUGHT UP HOW ALL THESE QUESTIONS STARTED WITH A RACE IN 2000, BUSH V GORE AND THOSE HANGING CHADS.

AND THEN SHE REPEATED.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT IT'S NOT A SIMPLE YES OR NO?

COMMITTED TO ELECTION YES, HAS THAT.

MEANWHILE, TRACY SAYS THAT, YES, THE PEOPLE OF ILLINOIS SHOULD CONFIDENCE IN THE INTEGRITY OF ILLINOIS ELECTIONS.

STILL, HE SAYS THAT THE STATE NEEDS STRONGER LAWS LIKE VOTER ID REQUIREMENTS.

I'M THE ONLY WAY TO CHANGE IT.

THE ONLY WAY TO GET BETTER ELECTION INTEGRITY, RULES.

AND SO WE CAN HAVE MORE ASSURANCE MORE CONFIDENCE IN FAIR AND HONEST ELECTION IS TO TIGHTEN UP THE VOTING RULES IN ILLINOIS AND WE CAN'T DO THAT UNTIL WE WIN.

SO I REPUBLICANS, CONSERVATIVES.

WELL AND VOTE EARLY.

WALKING A TIGHT ROPE THERE NOW, ILLINOIS VOTERS OF ANY POLITICAL STRIPE WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CAST EARLY VOTES IN JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS.

EARLY VOTING BEGINS IN ILLINOIS SEPTEMBER.

26 FRIEND US BACK TO YOU.

AMANDA, THANKS.

OF COURSE.

WE'LL SEE YOU A LITTLE BIT LATER ON IN THE PROGRAM.

BUT FIRST WE CHECK IN WITH NIC BLOOMBERG, WHO IS OUTSIDE PFIZER FORM, OF COURSE, IN MILWAUKEE.

NIC, ILLINOIS HAS JUST 3 REPUBLICANS IN ITS CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION WIRE.

THEY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PICKING UP MORE SEATS IN NOVEMBER.

WELL, TO HEAR CONGRESSMAN DARIN LAHOOD TELL IT, HE'S ONE OF THOSE 3 REPUBLICANS.

IT COMES DOWN TO 2 THINGS.

THE ENERGY AROUND FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, ESPECIALLY IN THE WAKE OF THIS PAST WEEKEND'S ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION AND THE DISARRAY FACING DEMOCRATS.

NOW, LAHOOD SAYS SOMETIMES REPUBLICANS ON CAPITOL HILL DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY GET A FAIR SHAKE FROM THE MEDIA.

BUT HE TOLD THE ILLINOIS DELEGATION THIS MORNING THAT AFTER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN'S DEBATE PERFORMANCE, HE HAD NEVER SEEN DEMOCRATS SO DESPONDENT.

WHEN WE'RE IN BC THE PRESS IS ALL OVER US AS REPUBLICANS.

THEY WANT TO CREATE CONTROVERSY.

FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR CONFERENCE THAT WEEK.

THERE WAS NOTHING GOING ON.

I ACTUALLY SO SORRY FOR A DEMOCRAT.

I THOUGHT ABOUT HUGGING ONE THAT WE.

I DIDN'T DO IT.

BUT IT'S NICE FOR A CHANGE THAT THE TABLE HAS BEEN FLIPPED.

NOW JUST A DECADE AGO, ILLINOIS HAD A REPUBLICAN SENATOR AND 8 REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE 10 YEARS AGO WAS ALSO THE LAST TIME THAT A REPUBLICAN WAS ELECTED TO STATEWIDE OFFICE IN ILLINOIS, HEADING INTO NOVEMBER'S ELECTION.

LAHOOD SAID THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR A COMEBACK.

WE HAVE SUCH A CHANCE TO TURN AROUND THIS COUNTRY.

WE HAVE THE WIND AT OUR BACKS IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE DOING.

BUT IT'S GOING TO BE INCUMBENT UPON ALL OF US TO BE ENGAGED AND USE THAT ENERGY AND ENTHUSIASM TO TO WIN ON NOVEMBER 5TH.

THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO WIN BACK SEAT TO KNOW WHY WE ONLY HAVE 3 CONGRESSIONAL SO I'M GOING TO BE WORKING TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO HELP GET THEM ELECTED.

BUT THOSE GOP CONGRESSIONAL CHALLENGERS FACE ENTRENCHED INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT.

I SPOKE WITH MARK RICE WHO'S TAKING ON CONGRESSMAN RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI.

RICE TOLD ME HE DOESN'T SEE IT AS AN UPHILL BATTLE, BUT A MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY.

HE TOLD ME THAT HIS MESSAGES ABOUT CRIME, THE ECONOMY, THE BORDER, THOSE ARE GETTING THROUGH TO VOTERS.

I ALSO SPOKE WITH JIM CARREY HE'S TAKING ON CONGRESSMAN BRAD SCHNEIDER.

HARRIS SAID FOR HIM, IT'S ABOUT PUBLIC SERVICE AND HE THINKS REPUBLICANS ARE ENERGIZED HEADING INTO NOVEMBER.

NICK, THE DELEGATION HEARD FROM ANOTHER CHALLENGER TAKING ON A WELL ESTABLISHED INCUMBENT.

TELL US ABOUT THAT.

THAT'S RIGHT.

BERNIE MORENO IS A GOP CANDIDATE FOR U.S. SENATE IN OHIO TAKING ON THE LONGTIME SENATOR SHERROD BROWN THERE.

HE ALSO STRUCK AN OPTIMISTIC TONE AND HE SAID UNITY IS KEY FOR REPUBLICANS.

RENO TOLD THE ROOM THAT AFTER HE WON A VERY HARD CONTESTED PRIMARY, HE SAID HIMSELF TO THE TASK OF BRINGING THE PARTY TOGETHER FOR A COMMON CAUSE.

IF YOU'RE IN THE DAY WHILE WE AGREE EACH OTHER, WHETHER IT'S 60% OR 90%, IT'S A LOT MORE THAT WE AGREE WITH DEMOCRATS TO THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT TAX RATES.

WELL, OR THAT ABOUT REGULATIONS WERE LOWER.

THAT.

THIS IS ABOUT MARINO.

ALSO GOT TO DIG IN AT THE WINDY CITY TELLING ANY CHICAGO RESIDENTS IN THE ROOM THAT THEY WANT TO GET AWAY FOR A WEEK DURING THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION NEXT MONTH.

OHIO WILL WELCOME THEM WITH OPEN ARMS BRANDIS.

HAHA.

ALL RIGHT, NIC, THANKS.

WHETHER THEY'VE GOT A SENSE OF HUMOR WILL SEE A LITTLE BIT LATER ON.

BUT FIRST, DONALD TRUMP IS SET TO FORMALLY ACCEPT HIS 3RD GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.

TONIGHT.

TRUMP HAS REPORTEDLY R-WIS REWRITTEN TONIGHT.

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH IN THE WAKE OF SATURDAY'S ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.

IT COMES AMID CALLS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO TONE DOWN DIVISIVE POLITICAL RHETORIC AND CALLED FOR UNITY.

JOINING US NOW WITH MORE ON TRUMP'S MESSAGING TONIGHT, ARE SANTANA JACKSON, A POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND HOST OF THE SANTA JACKSON RADIO SHOW.

AND ERIK NISBET, PROFESSOR POLICY ANALYSIS AND COMMUNICATION AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.

WELCOME BACK.

ERIC WILKINSON THANKS FOR JOINING US.

SO YOU DON'T WANT TO START WITH YOU, PLEASE BRIEFLY, WHAT DO YOU THINK WE CAN EXPECT TO HEAR FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP TONIGHT?

YOU KNOW, I'M REALLY LOOKING AT A MAN WHO TRUSTS HIS OWN COUNSEL.

I DON'T EXPECT MEN LIKE HIM TO REALLY CHANGE UP MIDSTREAM.

HE MIGHT CHANGE HIS TONE A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE HE APPEARS AT LEAST VISIBLY TO BE CONTEMPLATIVE IN THE WAKE OF AN ASSASSINATION.

YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE A BULLET WHIZZED BY YOUR YEAR, YOU COULD BE LIFE CHANGING.

BUT IT CAN.

IT CAN ALSO MAKE YOU WHO WILL CLOSELY TO WHAT YOU BELIEVE.

AND SO I DON'T REALLY EXPECT THE DIFFERENT DONALD TRUMP.

I EXPECT MAYBE SOMEONE WHO IS.

MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE THOUGHTFUL.

I HOPE THAT HE WILL USE THE TREMENDOUS CHARISMA THAT HE HAS TO HEAL THE NATION UNITY, OK, I WANT I DON'T WANT UNIFORMITY.

THAT UNITY, SOMEONE WHO WILL USE HIS POWER TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.

HOPE THAT HE DOES ERIC, WE ALSO KNOW HE'S SLATED TO SPEAK FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF NOW.

THAT COULD JUST BE SOME PADDING TIME FOR ALL THE APPLAUSE THEY'RE EXPECTING.

BUT WHAT IS IT THAT HE NEEDS TO SAY?

THAT'S GOING TO TAKE AN HOUR AND HALF?

THAT'S A GOOD IT MIGHT BE PIVOT.

HE'S GOING.

I THINK HE'S TRYING TO REINTRODUCE HIMSELF TO AMERICAN PEOPLE.

BEEN THE PERSONAL STORIES.

HIS GRANDDAUGHTER, HIS CHILDREN.

THEY'RE TRYING SOFTEN HIS IMAGE RIGHT?

THEIR CENTRAL MESSAGE, I THINK OF CONVENTION HAS BEEN.

PARITY AND PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH.

AND THAT IS BASICALLY WHAT THAT COMMUNITY, THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT TO COMMUNICATE, THAT HE IS STRONG.

THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE SERVED THE CO BRANDI TONIGHT OF BASICALLY THE HEAD OF THE UFC, RIGHT AND HOKE HOGAN, A WRESTLER.

SO, YOU KNOW, HE IS A STRONG MAN.

HE'S HEALTHY.

YOU MIGHT.

YES, MODERATE HIS TONE, RIGHT?

I DON'T THINK THE SUBSTANCE IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT TO SARA LEE.

BUT HE IS AND TRYING SORT OF MOVE PAST EVENTS OF JANUARY 6 AND SAY THAT I AM A CHANGED MAN.

I AM HERE.

I AM STRONG.

PEACE AND PROSPERITY IS WITH YOU HE'S MOVING TO CANCER TERRITORY.

NGUYEN SPEAKS FOR 90 SPEAKS FOR 90 MINUTES.

YEAH.

SENT TO THAT.

THIS IS ALSO THIS IS HIS 3RD NOMINATION.

HOW IS THIS TRUMP DIFFERENT FROM THE CANDIDATE TRUMP WE SAW IN 2016?

WELL, HE IS NOT THE SAME.

AND IN 2016 2016, HE WAS A TELEVISION STAR.

HE WAS A MOBILE.

HE HAS HAD HIS HANDS ON THE NUCLEAR CODES.

HE IS A DIFFERENT PERSON.

YOU CANNOT HAVE THAT KIND OF EXPERIENCE AND BE THE SAME GUY.

YOU KNOW, WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY TO YOU, OH, MY THIS IS NOT CHANGE.

WELL, THEN YOU'VE NOT GROWN.

AND THAT'S NOT A VERY GOOD THING.

SO I HOPE THAT HE HAS GROWN.

I HOPE THAT HE HAS ENLARGED.

I HOPE THAT HE WILL BE THE DONALD TRUMP THAT MAYBE PEOPLE HAVE KNOWN IN THE PAST.

SOMEONE WHO WAS INCLUSIVE.

IF YOU TALK TO MIKE TYSON, HE'S YOU'LL SEE YOU'LL HEAR INCLUSIVENESS.

WHEN YOU TALK TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE, YOU HEAR SOMEONE WHO BROKE THE BARRIERS AT COUNTRY CLUB AND MADE SURE THAT YOU HAD A BLACK, ANY JEWISH PERSON ADMITTED.

I HOPE THAT WE WILL GET THAT GUY AS OPPOSED TO SOMEONE WHO IS DIMINISHING.

PEOPLE HOPE THAT HE WILL LIFT PEOPLE UP.

HIS BOOK IS THAT GOING TO PLAY TO THE BASE.

THAT'S NOT GOING TO PLAY THE BASS.

YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN INTERESTING.

I THINK THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO TONED DOWN A LITTLE SEEN A LITTLE MORE MODERATE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

YOU KNOW THE WORD ABORTION HAS NOT BEEN MENTIONED LIKE ONCE AND YET INSTEAD OF IT COMING FROM DONALD TRUMP.

THEY'RE HAVING OTHER PEOPLE, SARAH TELEGRAPH, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE NOT A LITTLE MORE MODERATE, BUT WE'RE STILL WITH THE BASE.

THAT'S WHERE LIKE FRANKLIN GRAHAM, FROM TERMS OF THE CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS IS INTRODUCING HIM AND OTHERS.

TUCKER CARLSON YOU KNOW, RIGHT?

I'M SORT OF THE WHITE NATIONALIST SIDE OF THE OF THE PARTY.

SO THAT IS STILL THERE THAT HAS NOT GONE AWAY.

IT'S MORE THAT TONE.

IT MAY BE THAT ASSOCIATION WITH TRUMP.

THEY'RE TRYING TO THEY DEFINITELY GOT SORRY, DO I WANT TO MANDATE AND YOU'RE JUST A SECOND, BUT IT DEFINITELY GOT A FUN.

LINEUPS WILL BE FUN TO WATCH THIS LIVE HERE ON IS A TELEVISION SPECTACLE, ISN'T YOU 2 AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO CHECK BACK IN WITH YOU JUST A LITTLE BIT.

BUT I WANT TO AND OF BACK IN HERE.

SHE'S STILL IN MILWAUKEE AT THE PFIZER FOR HIM.

SHE'S JOINED BY ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN REPUBLICAN MIKE BOST.

AMANDA.

YES, MIKE FOSS, WHO ACTUALLY REPRESENTS 3RD OF THE LAND MASS OF ILLINOIS WITH HIS CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT COVERING SOUTHERN ILLINOIS BECAUSE IT'S REALLY SPARSELY POPULATED THAT THE REASON THAT YOU'RE JUST SO LARGE, I WANT TO BEGIN.

I TALKED EARLIER ABOUT ELECTION INTEGRITY, MUSIC.

WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR YOU ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THIS ELECTION COME WHAT MAY?

WELL, I'M GOING TO ACCEPT RESULTS OF THE ELECTION.

AND REMEMBER THIS, THE CONSTITUTION IS VERY, VERY CLEAR.

THE STATE LEGISLATURE OR MUST SET THE RULES FOR ELECTION.

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE LAST ELECTION WAS THE STATE LEGISLATURE.

SEVERAL OF THEM DID NOT SET THE ELECTION.

A GOVERNMENT BASED ON COVID ARE MORE DID NOT APPOINTED BY STATE LEGISLATURE THEY THAT'S NOT THE REST PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ART, BUT WASN'T.

BUT KNOW THAT BELIEVES OR WITHDRAW BLOCK GRANT WITH YOUR WAS THAT THAT'S NOT A ISSUE THAT NEEDS TO BE CLEARED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT IS UNDER THE STATE GOVERNMENT OPERATES.

AND ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION, SHOULD TAKE CARE OF THOSE THINGS.

AND IF YOU DON'T THINK THERE'S FRAUD, YOU KNOW, WE COME FROM A STATE THAT PRETTY WELL-KNOWN BOARD.

AND AT TIMES, FRAUD, WE WE KNOW.

WELL, FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU REMEMBER.

BUT BEFORE I WANT JASON PALMER AND PORT AND WE HAD CERTAIN AREAS THAT WERE VOTING 115 AND 110% 110 15% OF THE REGISTERED VOTERS.

NOW, THAT'S NOT A MATH THAT WORKS THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTION HAD TO GO THAT.

BUT NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WITH THE STATE.

SO BRINGING THIS TO THE STATE IS REALLY WHAT YOU'RE SAYING I CAN PROBABLY HEAR GOT TO BE.

IT'S GOING LONGER THAN WITHOUT THE CONSTANT.

YOU EARLIER THIS WEEK, FOCUS OF THIS HAS BEEN ABOUT UNITY.

AND YOU DID HAVE A PRIMARY REALLY COMPETITIVE ONE AGAINST FORMER REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR DARREN BAILEY KILLED IN THAT CONTEST, RAN AGAINST YOU AND REALLY RAN TO THE RIGHT THOUGH.

YOU ARE KNOWN AS FAIRLY CONSERVATIVE WRITE, WRITE, WRITE MY RUNNING AGAINST ME FROM THE RIGHT NOW SAID THAT THE WHOLE TIME RUNNING MAKE RIGHT IS THAT THAT'S A VERY, VERY, VERY THIN RIGHT.

AND WE END UP WINNING.

AND AND DARREN BAILEY AND I HAVE TALKED SEVERAL TIMES.

WE'RE TALKING REGULARLY.

BUT ONE THING WE DID TALK ABOUT JUST A WEEK OR AGO, WE ACTUALLY TALKED BEFORE WE CAME HERE AND SAID THIS IS NOT ABOUT US.

IT IS ABOUT THE UNITY OF THE PARTY LEAST OUR BOAT DELEGATES AND BOTH OF US TO LETTING BYGONES BE BYGONES FEAR GETTING FURTHER CHALLENGES FROM HIM OR FROM INNOVATIVE.

THEY FEEL THAT I'M NOT DOING SOMETHING CORRECT.

AND THAT'S THE PART OF THE PROCESS.

AND THAT'S THE WAY THE PROCESS WORKS.

AND IF SOMEONE WANTS TO RUN, THIS IS THE GREAT THING ABOUT OUR DEMOCRACY.

YOU CAN RUN.

DOES THIS SHOW THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD TAKE ACTION TO SORT OF LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD WHEN IT COMES TO REDISTRICTING.

AGAIN, IS KNOW THAT YOU'RE IN YOUR DISTRICT EXPANDED, RIGHT?

DON'T KNOW.

IT DOES NOT.

AND THEN REASON THAT IT DOES NOT INSTILL THAT SAME ISSUE.

THIS STATES SHOULD CONTROL THE ELECTIONS PROCESS.

ALSO THE DISTRICT PROCESS.

NOW, THERE ARE CERTAIN GUIDELINES ARE IN PLACE.

THE DISTRICT SHOULD BE COMPACT.

THAT'S REALLY TOUGH FOR AND CONTIGUOUS.

WE DO THAT, OK?

AND DO NOT MY MIND.

A MINORITY MAJORITY DECISION.

OTHER WORDS, SOMETHING GOING TO BE AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN DISTRICT.

YOU DON'T CUT IT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS LEFT ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS TO SAY WE'RE NOT GOING TO IMPLEMENT REDISTRICTING BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE REPUBLICANS SAY YOUR MANDARIN.

GOT TO LEAVE IT UP GOT ONLY 20 SECONDS LEFT.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP'S?

I THINK WHAT WE'RE HERE TO READ PRESIDENT TRUMP NIGHT DEALING WITH THE BORDER WILL DEAL WITH INFLATION WILL DEAL IN ENERGY AND BENNETT AND ALSO THE POWER OF MAKING SURE THAT OUR ENEMIES FEARS AND ALLIES TRUST US.

AND I THINK YOU'LL SEE A DIFFERENT TONE.

THE PRESIDENT FROM FACT THAT WHAT WE KNOW DONALD TRUMP, BECAUSE THE FACT THAT YOU ARE, BUT WHEN DOWN, EXPERIENCE MIGHT CHANGE HAS IS A DIFFERENT TONE MEANS THE DIFFERENT MAN?

I DON'T THINK I MEAN, DIFFERENT TONE IS JUST THE WAY PRESENT POSITIONS.

DIFFERENT TONE, A DIFFERENT TONE.

THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN TO CONGRESSMAN MIKE ALL RIGHT, AMANDA, THANK YOU.

AND OF COURSE, REPRESENTATIVE MIKE BOST AS WELL.

WE'LL SEE YOU IN A BIT.

AND WE'RE BACK IN A MOMENT WITH MORE FROM THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

AND OF COURSE, OUR ENTIRE SPOTLIGHT POLITICS TEAM.

STAY WITH US.

CHICAGO TONIGHT IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART WHY THE ALEXANDER AND JOHN NICHOLS FAMILY.

THE GYM AND K MAYBE FAMILY.

THE POPE BROTHERS FOUNDATION.

AND THE SUPPORT OF THESE ILLINOIS DELEGATES ON THEIR EXPECTATIONS FOR DONALD TRUMP.

DONALD TRUMP'S SPEECH TONIGHT, JOE BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS AND A LOOK AHEAD TO THE REST OF THE FINAL NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

JOINING US ONCE AGAIN FROM MILWAUKEE ARE AMANDA VICKI HAD A SHARON AND NICK BLUMBERG AND OF COURSE, JOINING US HERE IN STUDIO, POLITICAL COMMENTATORS ANTI TO JACKSON AND NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR ERIK NISBET.

WELCOME BACK.

EVERYBODY.

NICK, LET'S START WITH YOU FIRST, PLEASE.

YOU KNOW, WE JUST HEARD FROM CONGRESSMAN MIKE BOST.

ALL EYES ARE ON DONALD TRUMP TONIGHT.

YOU ALSO SPOKE WITH ILLINOIS DELEGATES ABOUT WHAT THEY EXPECT TO HEAR FROM THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN HIS SPEECH TONIGHT.

WHEN THEY TELL YOU.

WELL, WE'VE HEARD ALL WEEK EXPRESSIONS OF GRATITUDE FROM THE DELEGATION SAYING THAT THEY THINK GOD SAVED PRESIDENT TRUMP'S LIFE DURING THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.

WE'VE GOT SOME VIDEO OF THAT WHOLE DELEGATION GATHERED ON THE FLOOR EARLIER THIS WEEK WHEN THEY OFFICIALLY PLEDGE THEIR VOTES TO NOMINATE TRUMP.

SO I THINK A LOT OF FOLKS ARE HOPING TO HEAR SOME OF THAT FROM TRUMP HIMSELF.

THEY THINK SOMETHING LIKE THIS, A BRUSH WITH DEATH MIGHT MAKE THE FORMER PRESIDENT MORE REFLECTIVE.

WE'VE HEARD A LOT OF THE WORD UNITY.

ONE OF THE DELEGATES TOLD ME HE THINKS MAYBE WE'LL SEE A MORE GRANDFATHERLY SIDE OF TRUMP.

OF COURSE, THAT WILL YOU KNOW, WITH THE BACKDROP OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING ON THE FLOOR A WEEK.

YOU KNOW, FOLKS IN AUDIENCE AT THE FISERV FORUM HERE, BREAKING OUT IN REGULAR CHANCE OF FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, ECHOING THE PRESIDENT'S OWN WORDS.

SO WHETHER WE HEAR FROM TRUMP, THE UNIFIER OR TRUMP, THE FIGHTER OR PERHAPS A BIT OF BOTH, WE WILL FIND OUT VERY SOON.

AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, IT HELPS THAT WE DID, IN FACT, HEAR FROM HIS GRANDDAUGHTER, HIS ELDEST GRANDDAUGHTER LAST NIGHT, HEATHER, DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO CAMPAIGN AGAINST TRUMP IN MILWAUKEE BY FOCUSING ON PROJECT 2025, BUT DON'T SEEM TO BE BREAKING THROUGH.

WHY NOT?

THEY ARE NOT BREAKING THROUGH.

THERE'S A LOT GOING ON IN MILWAUKEE FOR THE REPUBLICANS.

YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME THE ENERGY AND SORT OF THE EXCITEMENT AND AND FOR THE FOR THE UNFORTUNATELY IN THE DEMOCRATS MIND THEY'VE BEEN BESIEGED WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN'S FUTURE ON THE TICKET.

QUENTIN FOLKS WHO ILLINOIS RESIDENTS PROBABLY BEST KNOW AS CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR FOR FORMER ARE GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER'S REELECTION CAMPAIGN.

HE'S HELPING TO RUN THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN AND HE SOUNDED FRUSTRATED THIS MORNING WHEN HE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT PROJECT 2025.

AND SORT OF HOW THE IMPACT IT WOULD HAVE ON PEOPLE'S POCKETBOOKS IF THOSE POLICIES WERE IMPLEMENTED DURING A SECOND TRUMP TERM, HE COULD BARELY KIT THE REPORTERS IN THE ROOM TO FOCUS.

EVERYBODY WANTED TO KNOW WHETHER BIDEN WAS CONSIDERING CONSIDERING STEPPING DOWN AND WHAT SORT OF TIMEFRAME THAT WOULD BE LOOKING BY THE END OF IT.

IT WAS HE WAS GRATEFUL TO GET A QUESTION ABOUT THE SUBSTANCE OF PROJECT 2025.

BUT THAT'S NOT THE WHAT THE REPORTERS WERE INTERESTED IN TALKING TO HIM ABOUT.

I'M AMANDA, YOU SPOKE WITH ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS ABOUT THE TURMOIL THAT SEEMS TO BE ENGULFING THE DEMOCRATS.

HOW ARE THEY REACTING?

WELL, THEY'RE POSITIVELY PULL OVER IT.

THEY SAY THAT AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF THE MEDIA FOCUSING ON REPUBLICAN INFIGHTING AND DYSFUNCTION THAT THEY'RE HAPPY TO HAVE DEMOCRATS TAKE THEIR TURN.

AND AS ONE CONGRESSMAN PUT IT, SEEMS THE 5TH OPPOSITE PARTY IS LITERAL FREE FALL.

I ALSO WE REPORTERS ALSO ASKED THEM ALL RIGHT.

SO IF IT ISN'T PRESIDENT BIDEN, WHO DO YOU THINK IT MIGHT BE IN?

WHO WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP RUN AGAINST?

LETS TAKE A LISTEN TO THE ANSWER STATES REPORT REPRESENTATIVE THAT IS ON BALLOT.

I DON'T THINK THAT PRESIDENT REALLY CARES WHO THE NEXT NOMINEE IS THAT IT'S NOT TOO LATE.

I THINK YOU SEE RIGHT NOW.

THE COUNTRY IS.

READY FOR THE CHANGE BACK TO PRESIDENT TRUMP.

I THINK YOU LOOK WHEN THE LANDSLIDE, NO MATTER WHO IT IS.

NOW, OF COURSE, THERE ARE OFF MENTION NAMES, INCLUDING GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER.

CONGRESSMAN LAHOOD WEIGHED IN ON THAT.

HE SAID THAT HE THINKS THAT OUTSIDE OF ILLINOIS MEDIA BUBBLE OUTSIDE OF THE ILLINOIS MEDIA BUBBLE.

THAT IS PRITZKER DOESN'T OFTEN GET MENTIONED THAT HE BELIEVES IMPACTS THAT PRITZKER WOULDN'T BE A SERVING AS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL AND ALL WERE IT NOT FOR HIS VERY, VERY WEALTHY INHERITANCE, JACKSON THAT, YOU KNOW, WE JUST HEARD FROM MISTER CABELLO DO YOU THINK TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE SEEING THIS, YOU POTENTIAL TURMOIL IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THIS UNCERTAINTY ABOUT BIDEN AND ARE THEY USING THAT TO APPEAL TO VOTERS WHO MIGHT BE UNSURE?

YEAH, I THINK THAT DEMOCRATIC BASE IS SOLID.

EVEN AS WE ARE DEALING WITH THIS PROBLEM, THIS ISSUE THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE QUESTION IS, ARE WE GOING TO BE A DEMOCRACY ALWAYS GOING TO BE AN OLIGARCHY?

YOU CAN TO HAVE 14 MILLION VOTES.

86 1% OF THE DELEGATES AND THEN HAVE SOME WEALTHY DONORS THREATEN YOU WITH EXPULSION.

IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.

AND I THINK IF YOU WILL, I THINK THE DEMOCRATS WILL BE BUYING MUCH, MUCH MORE TROUBLE IF THEY OVERTHROW PRESIDENT BIDEN WITHOUT HIS PERMISSION, YOU'VE GOT TO THIS IS HIS DECISION AND HIS DECISION ALONG AND ONCE HE DOES THAT, I THINK THAT THINGS WILL SMOOTH OUT IF PEOPLE FEEL THAT IT'S BEEN AN EASY TRANSITION.

I THINK THAT WHEN YOU HAVE A COUP.

THAT BECOMES THE PROBLEM.

ERIC NESBITT, YOU YOU MENTIONED THIS A LITTLE BIT EARLIER.

YOU KNOW, TONIGHT, SPEAKER LINEUP, WE'VE GOT TUCKER CARLSON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO, BUT ALSO HULK IN ADDITION TO SOME OF THE EVERYDAY AMERICANS SO-CALLED EVERYDAY AMERICANS THAT WE'VE BEEN HEARING FROM A WEEK.

WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS LINEUP?

SO CAMPAIGNS?

I TEACH MY STUDENTS ABOUT 2 THINGS, CONTRAST AND CERTAINTY, RIGHT?

AND YOU HAVE THIS ON DISPLAY.

THIS IS TEXTBOOK RIGHT?

THERE IS CONTRACT TO HAVE US PERSONALLY TO SURVIVED.

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.

HE'S HEALTHY.

HE'S STRONG.

HE'S HE'S BEEN THERE EVERY DAY SHOWING HIMSELF RIGHT?

AND YOU HAVE A VERY UNITED REPUBLICAN PARTY.

IN CONTRAST, YOU HAVE THE DEMOCRATS THIS UNITED BICKERING ABOUT WHO MIGHT ACTUALLY THE THEM CONCERNS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND CAPABILITY OF THEIR TOP BOTH AMONG DEMOCRATS AND JUST THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND THE MEDIA.

THAT IS QUITE A CONTRACT.

AND THEN THERE'S CERTAINTY, RIGHT?

YOU KNOW WHAT DONALD TRUMP STANDS FOR, YOU KNOW THAT HE WILL BE IN CHARGE.

YOU KNOW WHAT?

HE'S A PATH WHERE MS THERE IS UNCERTAINTY, EVEN WHO WILL BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE AND WHO AND I MONITOR THE REPEATED DURING THE CONVENTION WHO IS IN CHARGE RIGHT THERE TALKING ABOUT THAT LAST NIGHT.

SO THIS IS THE CONTRAST.

AND SO IT'S BEEN A VERY EFFECTIVE WE CRIMES.

SO, NICK, WANT TO COME BACK TO YOU BECAUSE ALL WEEK RNC FASHION HAS BEEN PLAYING A MAJOR ROLE.

OBVIOUSLY, FOLKS, 11 TO SHOWCASE THEIR SUPPORT FOR DONALD TRUMP IN VARIOUS WAYS, INCLUDING IN ILLINOIS DELEGATION.

TELL US ABOUT THAT.

THAT'S RIGHT.

YOU SEE A LOT OF INTERESTING FASHION AND ACCESSORY CHOICES AT AN EVENT LIKE THIS.

BUT THERE'S A PARTICULARLY UNUSUAL ONE THAT POPPED UP AMONG THE ILLINOIS DELEGATION.

LET'S TAKE A BANDAGES, TO SHOW SOLIDARITY PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SOME PEOPLE ARE WEIGHING A SECOND.

THAT'S KIND OF LIKE MIKEY HUGHES INJURY THIS AND A TOOMEY RISES ABOVE AMERICAN FLAG.

IT COVERS THE YEAR JUST LIKE MAYBE DIVINE INTERVENTION PUBLIC.

PRESIDENT NEED SO THESE BADGE OF HONOR EAR TAGS WERE MADE BY A COMPANY IN MCHENRY COUNTY AND THEY WORKED QUICKLY.

I CHECKED THE INTERNET ARCHIVE OF THEIR WEB SITE FROM 2 DAYS AGO AND IT WAS NOT ON THE FRONT PAGE.

IT'S UP ON THE FRONT PAGE FOR SALE NOW.

THEY SAY A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS WILL GO TO CHARITY TO BE DETERMINED.

IT SAYS.

BUT YOU KNOW, THESE THE CAUSE, THE BANDAGES STARTED POPPING UP ON FOLKS JUST AS SOON AS THEY SAW PRESIDENT TRUMP ON MONDAY BUT NOW WHERE THEY ONCE WERE WAIT NOW THEY ARE RED, WHITE AND BLUE.

ALL RIGHT.

YOUR THANKS, IN MILWAUKEE, OF COURSE.

WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN AT 10 AND THANKS TO OUR STUDIO GUESTS INTO JACKSON, ERIK NISBET.

AND THAT IS OUR SO FOR NOW, BE SURE TO JOIN US FOR MORE LIVE CONVENTION COVERAGE TONIGHT AT 10 AS WE BREAK DOWN THE 4TH AND FINAL DAY OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.

IN THE MEANTIME, BE SURE TO CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE FOR A LIVE BLOG COVERING THE VERY LATEST FROM THE CONVENTION.

THAT'S, OF COURSE, AT W T TW DOT COM SLASH NEWS AND STAY RIGHT HERE NOW FOR COVERAGE FROM THE PBS NEWS HOUR NOW FOR ALL OF US HERE IN CHICAGO BRANDIS FRIEDMAN, THANK YOU FOR WATCHING A HEALTHY AND SAFE.

WE'LL SEE YOU AT 10.

CAPTIONED.

HE'S MADE POSSIBLE BY ROBERT A CLIFF AND CLIFFORD CONGO PERSONAL INJURY AND WRONGFUL DEATH THAT HE'S PROUD TO RECOGNIZE ITS FOUNDER AND SENIOR PARTNER ROBERT CLIFF.

RANKED NUMBER ONE IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS BY SUPER LAWYERS