(Bloomberg) -- Day Three of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee has wrapped, with Donald Trump set to tomorrow accept his party’s nomination as candidate in November’s presidential election. Here are five key things to know from Wednesday’s events:
- Ohio Senator JD Vance accepted the Republican nomination for vice president with a populist manifesto that was partly memoir and partly a paean to Trump.
- In a speech crafted to appeal to blue-collar, swing-state workers, Vance specifically indicted “Wall Street barons” for the crisis of housing affordability.
- Republicans from a small-town Ohio mayor to a border-state Texas governor assailed President Joe Biden on issues of foreign policy, energy, the border and the environment.
- Speakers also included Peter Navarro, the former Trump trade adviser released from prison just hours earlier after serving time for contempt of Congress, a reminder of the legal issues still shadowing Trump.
- Trump’s ebullient convention comes as Biden’s campaign has struggled with big donors holding back contributions, a growing revolt from congressional Democrats — and a bout with Covid that has caused Biden to cancel campaign events.
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