Monday was the first day of the Republican National Convention. As Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale noted on Twitter, it was quite an eventful day:
This is a very excellent list and we would add just a handful of other items.
- A rabbi who delivered the convention’s invocation refused to endorse the convention’s nominee.
- A longtime confidante to the nominee held a rally where he called the Democratic nominee’s husband and former president a serial rapist.
- At said rally a 9/11 conspiracy theory avatar was a leading speaker and was confronted by a comedian ranting about Tower 7.
- The former Saturday Night Live musical director sang about “the side effects of the cocaine” to a convention hall full of Republicans.
- The 38-year-old Suburban father of three who is the national leader of the Young Republicans struggled to say the name of a web site.
- The lead singer of the Turtles accused the Republican National Committee of unauthorized use of the band’s hit 1967 song “Happy Together.”
- The contingent of conventioneers opposed to the presumptive nominee tried to force a roll call vote on whether or not to allow bound delegates to vote against that nominee, the chair shut that down after an incredibly close voice vote, fled the stage, and chaos ensued.
- A state delegation from one of the biggest purple states considered leaving the convention.
- One of the authors of a book about Benghazi that was made into a movie starring Jim from The Office made a tampon joke.
- The candidate entered the stage surrounded by fog, silhouetted against a gray screen, and walking out to “We Are the Champions.”
We are very much looking forward to seeing what unfolds on Day 2.
