What to know about the 2024 Republican National Convention in Wisconsin
Al Jazeera
Trump is set to be named the Republican presidential nominee at the convention, underscoring his control over the party.
It is a moment of political pomp and pageantry in the United States, unfurling near the mid-point of a presidential election year: the national party convention.
Every four years, both the Republicans and Democrats hold massive, televised conventions to officially nominate their candidates for president and vice president.
And on July 15, the Republican Party opens the first convention of the 2024 election cycle. The four-day event will take place in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the capital of a critical battleground state.
Former President Donald Trump, who has been the party’s de facto nominee for months after sweeping aside a field of challengers during the Republican primaries, is expected to use the convention stage to put to rest any questions of his dominance over the party.
“This is very much the Trump show,” Thad Kousser, a professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego, told Al Jazeera. “The convention will demonstrate how fully the party has embraced him.”
