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We now return you to your regularly scheduled Megathread!

Today is July 18th and it's the fourth and final day of the Republican National Convention where Donald J. Trump will be officially nominated as the Republican candidate for President of the United States.

The convention runs Mon-Thur, you can see the calendar of events here:

https://gopconvention2024.com/master-calendar/

The Day 1 Megathread can be found here!

https://lemmy.world/post/17577769

Day 2:

https://lemmy.world/post/17614999

Day 3:

https://lemmy.world/post/17658192

This is the big one, if you only watch one day of the convention, this is the one to catch. Trump not only officially accepts the nomination today, but it's also his first big speech since the assassination attempt.

Will he appear humbled or contrite as he did on day 1? 🤷‍♂️ Hard to say, we haven't seen many speeches by candidates after an attempt on their life.

Day 1 ALREADY saw the actual nomination vote of Donald J. Trump, the announcement of his running mate, J.D. Vance, and the appearance of an unusually somber, almost SAD looking Trump on the show floor.

Day 2 saw an... interesting speech from Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Day 3 had the Vice Presidential acceptance speech from JD Vance:

https://www.youtube.com/live/qeSkNECkVzE

Video intro at 5hrs:33min:12sec

Usha Vance intro at 5hrs:35min:20sec

JD Vance at 5hrs:40min:10sec

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Florida deputy Jesse Hernandez screamed “shots fired,” and frantically fired his gun after an acorn fell onto the roof of his squad car, making him jump.

Anjelica Lee said police were called to a Save A Lot store in Lakeland after her father was falsely accused of stealing a banana.

Tyler Chase, 22, was living in transitional housing in Portland, Ore., when the authorities misidentified a body as his and cremated it.

Welcome to a WEIRD week in Politics!

Thursday, 2/8 - Now with 54% reporting in the Nevada Caucus, Trump was declared the winner after just the first percent was in:

1% results:
Donald Trump - 97.6% - 362 votes
Ryan Binkley - 2.4% - 9 votes

54% results:
Donald Trump - 99.3% - 32,527 votes
Ryan Binkley - 0.7% - 235 votes

Tuesday, 2/6, marks the Nevada Primary where Nikki Haley is running primarily (!) against "None of the Above".

AP Results Page here, 88% counted:

https://apnews.com/ap-nevada-election-2024-results

On the Republican side, the AP has called "None of These Candidates" the winner.

None of These Candidates - 43,893 - 63.2%
Nikki Haley - 21,199 - 30.5%
Mike Pence - 2,752 - 4.0%
Tim Scott - 950 - 1.4%
John Castro - 235 - 0.3%

On the Democratic side, it's Biden all the way:

Joe Biden - 98,358 - 89.3%
None of These Candidates - 6,398 - 5.8%
Marianne Williamson - 3,173 - 2.9%
Gabriel Cornejo - 630 - 0.6%
Jason Palmer - 385 - 0.3%

Which, in the end, doesn't really matter because the delegates which determine who the party nominee are, are not apportioned by the state PRIMARY, they are determined in the state CAUCUS on Thursday, 2/8.

Trump is running largely unopposed in the Caucus.

We'll leave the megapost up long enough to cover both events.

Please keep all comments and posts related to the Primary and Caucus in this Megapost.

None of the officers faced a misconduct hearing but a student officer who reported them was later dismissed.

The student officer who reported his colleagues says the force covered up the incident, failing to inform the woman or the policing regulator about what happened

In August, he was told he was not physically or mentally "fitted" to be a police constable and dismissed.