1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: The only drive show you can trust to ask the questions, 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: get the answers by the facts, and give the analysis. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 2: Jack aime On, hither DUP to c Ellen Drive with 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 2: One New Zealand let's get connected News Talk z B. 5 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has been officially nominated as the Republican presidential 6 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 1: candidate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Today. Trump has also enlisted Ohio 7 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: Senator JD Vance as his vice presidential pick. And it 8 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: didn't stop there for Trump, with Judge Eileen Cannon also 9 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: dismissing his Marra a Lago classified documents case. Today. Lauren 10 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,639 Speaker 1: Tomazi is Channel nine's US correspondent and is with us now. 11 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: Good evening, Good evening to you, Jack. So what has 12 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: the reaction been to Donald Trump's appearance at the RNC. 13 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 2: Look, It has been quite remarkable. The eruption of cheers 14 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 2: that you had from the Republican Party faithful here in 15 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 2: Milwaukee was really quite insane. It was been hours that 16 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 2: people were waiting here hoping to see Donald Trump, forty 17 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 2: eight hours on from that assassination attempt, and the former 18 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: president walked out with a bandage on his ear, slowly 19 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 2: stepping into the Republican National Convention arena and there were 20 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 2: just thousands of people here cheering him on. 21 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 3: He didn't say anything. 22 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: He just put his fist in the air show of 23 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 2: defiance after that assassination attempt. It was truly quite remarkable 24 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 2: to see. 25 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: So talk to us a little bit about JD. Vance 26 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: because in the past he has been openly critical of 27 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. He called him famously America's hitler. So how 28 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: has this one hundred and eighty degree flip flop happened? 29 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 3: It's truly quite remarkable. JD. 30 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 2: Vance was a really intense critic of Donald Trump and 31 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 2: really kind of switched gears when he went for a 32 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 2: run for the Senate in twenty twenty two. 33 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 3: JD. 34 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 2: Vans has only been in the Senate for a couple 35 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,559 Speaker 2: of years now, but he changed his narrative and began 36 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 2: getting on board. 37 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 3: I guess with that NAGA movement. 38 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 2: You started hearing him talk about the MAGA policies and 39 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 2: Donald Trump about the stolen election, which of course we 40 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 2: know was not the case. And Donald Trump embraced him, 41 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 2: he endorsed him for the Senate, and now here we 42 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 2: are two years on. JD. Vance on the Republican Party 43 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,239 Speaker 2: ticket as the vice presidential nominee. Now, for those people 44 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 2: at home who are like, who is this guy? You 45 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 2: may have actually read his book. He wrote a bestseller, 46 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 2: Hill Billy Ellogy, and that was adapted into a Netflix 47 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,679 Speaker 2: series which is really quite popular. 48 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just what an amazing life for a guy 49 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: who's not even yet forty to now find himself as 50 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: potentially the favorite to be the next vice president of 51 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: the United States. Have we heard anything in terms of 52 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: polling over the last couple of days following the extraordinary 53 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: events in Pennsylvania. 54 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 2: Look, this is going to be so interesting to see. 55 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 2: We haven't had a poll come out yet since that 56 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 2: attempted assassination, but the polls within the last week again 57 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 2: show Donald Trump taking a bit of a lead over 58 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 2: Joe Biden. That's kind of been the nature of these polls. 59 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 2: We're seeing a bit of a growing divide, Donald Trump 60 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 2: gaining more and more momentum. I expect that you'll see 61 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 2: much of the same when we get the next round 62 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 2: of polls. In the wake of that attempted assassination. And 63 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 2: also today, Donald Trump had a huge court win. He 64 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 2: had his classified documents case tossed out by a judge 65 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 2: in Florida. 66 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 3: There has been a lot going on for the former president. 67 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's remarkable. How has he reacted to that. 68 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 2: He took to True Social this morning to post he's 69 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 2: certainly very pleased with that. It was a bit of 70 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 2: a long shot appeal that his legal team had put in, 71 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 2: never thinking that it would. 72 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 3: Come to fruition. But then, of course we had. 73 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 2: The Supreme Court ruling on immunity for Donald Trump, and 74 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 2: one of the justices, Clarence Thomas, very much caved the 75 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 2: way wrote in the arguments there the case for the 76 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 2: judge in Florida, Aileen Cannon, to make this ruling. 77 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 3: And so that is what has happened. 78 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 2: The case has been tossed down and it now places 79 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 2: in jeopardy the other case, which is Jack Smith prosecuting 80 00:03:58,200 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 2: the January sixth election interference. 81 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 3: So very well, you could. 82 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 2: See quite a number of these court cases of Donald 83 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 2: Trump's topple over. 84 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: These big political conventions are full of drama, but they 85 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: like to drip feed it, right, So we see Trump 86 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: and jd vance today. Then we have a series of 87 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: speeches in the coming days. When are we actually likely 88 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: to hear Donald Trump's presentation. 89 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 2: Thursday is the big day for Donald Trump, And as 90 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 2: I stand here in the Republican National Convention right now, 91 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 2: I can see balloons are all in netting above the ceiling, 92 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 2: and that's the day you'll have that really big speech. Now, 93 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 2: Donald Trump has said that he said he had a 94 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 2: humdinger of a speech as it was, but he's actually 95 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 2: changed it all around in the wake of that shooting, 96 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 2: an attemptive assassination on the weekend. So it'll be interesting 97 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 2: to see what the former president has to say because 98 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 2: he's moving forward with this bit of a show of unity. 99 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 2: So it will certainly what we have to hear from him. 100 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 2: How long this goes for, it's going to be interesting 101 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 2: to watch. 102 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: Thanks for your time, Lauren, We appreciate it that as 103 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: Lauren Tamazi, who is nine's US correspondent. For more from 104 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to news talks. It'd 105 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 1: be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.