By Helen Coster
(Reuters) -This week’s Republican Nationwide Conference, overshadowed by an assassination try on Donald Trump, will characteristic televised speeches from enterprise leaders, celebrities, officers and on a regular basis People culminating with the previous president’s formal acceptance of his nomination for president.
The four-day occasion in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, begins on Monday. Nightly themes embrace crime, the economic system and world conflicts, all points driving the run-up to Trump’s Nov. 5 election rematch with President Joe Biden, his Democratic rival.
Listed below are among the anticipated audio system:
DAVID SACKS
Entrepreneur and investor David Sacks is a part of a gaggle of rich, high-profile Silicon Valley enterprise capitalists and traders who’ve thrown their assist behind Trump.
In June, Sacks and his spouse Jacqueline hosted a Trump fundraiser at their house within the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, elevating $12 million. Ohio Republican Senator J.D. Vance, who has labored in enterprise capital and is on Trump’s vice chairman quick record, helped manage the fundraiser.
Sacks, a detailed pal of Elon Musk, was beforehand the chief working officer of PayPal (NASDAQ:). He was an early investor in firms together with Airbnb, Fb (NASDAQ:), Palantir (NYSE:), SpaceX and Uber (NYSE:).
TRENT CONAWAY
The mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, will communicate on Wednesday, a part of a lineup that can embrace Trump’s decide for vice chairman and his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. East Palestine, situated on the state’s border with Pennsylvania, is the location of a poisonous prepare derailment in February 2023 that sparked a well being and environmental disaster.
Trump visited East Palestine about two weeks after the derailment and criticized Biden for not touring to the working-class neighborhood of 4,700 residents.
The White Home famous on the time that federal brokers have been on the scene nearly instantly after the derailment. Biden ultimately visited East Palestine in February 2024.
Conaway, a conservative who doesn’t assist Biden, prolonged the invitation to go to to the president, saying it will be good for his neighborhood.
AMBER ROSE
Rose, a biracial, millennial mannequin and actuality tv persona who as soon as dated rapper Kanye West, is making her RNC debut in a speech subsequent week.
In Could, Rose, who has greater than 24 million followers on Instagram, endorsed Trump, himself a former actuality TV star, in a publish that includes her standing alongside Trump and his spouse Melania, with the remark “Trump 2024.”
On July 2 she posted a photograph of herself sporting a purple Make America Nice Once more baseball hat and a white bikini.
Rose known as Trump an “idiot” in a 2016 interview with The Cut, adding: “He’s so weird. I really hope he’s not president.”
RON DESANTIS
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, once considered a top contender for the 2024 Republican nomination and a political heir to Trump before his campaign floundered, is scheduled to speak on Tuesday.
DeSantis, who endorsed Trump after dropping out of the primary race, has become a leading figure within the Republican Party for his conservative stance on hot-button social issues involving schools, gender and abortion. He is also a staunch critic of Biden’s immigration policies.
During DeSantis’ presidential primary bid, Trump relentlessly attacked the governor.
DANA WHITE
The chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship will speak ahead of Trump on Thursday. Trump has had a long relationship with White, who also spoke at the 2016 and 2020 Republican conventions in support of Trump’s candidacy.
Trump hosted UFC events at his since-bankrupt Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City decades ago when the sport was spurned by most venues, White said in a 2018 interview with The Hill.
Trump’s alignment with White and UFC helps his appeal with young men in particular.
The Republican presidential candidate attended a UFC match in Newark, New Jersey, on June 1 in his first public appearance after being convicted on 34 felony counts relating to a scheme to a cover up an alleged affair with a porn star. White and clips from that appearance were featured in Trump’s first post on TikTok, a video that has garnered 7.7 million likes.
TRUMP FAMILY MEMBERS
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, the former president’s oldest sons, as well as daughter-in-law Lara Trump and Donald Jr.’s fiancee, Kimberly Guilfoyle, will be speaking at the convention. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump run the Trump Organization; Lara Trump is co-chair of the Republican National Committee.
SEAN O’BRIEN
O’Brien is president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the 1.3 million-member labor union which endorsed Biden in 2020 and has yet to endorse a candidate in this year’s presidential election.
Last month a spokesperson for the union said that O’Brien asked to speak at both the RNC and the Democratic National Convention, which will be held in Chicago in August.
Trump and Biden are both courting votes from rank-and-file members of organized labor, whose support in the Nov. 5 election could be crucial in battleground states that decide elections, including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
BOB UNANUE
Unanue is chief govt of Goya Meals, the most important Hispanic-owned U.S. meals firm and a well-liked model amongst Latino People. In 2020 the New Jersey-based firm turned the goal of a boycott marketing campaign on social media sparked by Unanue effusively praising Trump on the White Home.
The hashtags #Goyaway and #BoycottGoya started trending on Twitter after Unanue appeared with Trump for the signing of an govt order creating an advisory panel for bolstering Hispanic prosperity. Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump later rallied assist for Goya Meals on Twitter.
