Second night at the RNC: Republicans criticize Biden-Harris administration

MILWAUKEE — The United States Senate was a topic of discussion for the Republican National Committee on the second night of the Republican National Convention Tuesday night. Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate and current Senate candidate Kari Lake joined a number of other Republican Senate candidates in condemning the Biden-Harris administration’s work over the past three and a half years. Lake and others were keen to emphasize that Republican voters need to help the GOP gain a majority in the Senate, which can go a long way toward achieving goals such as Project 2025.

“Americans are much more united than you might think,” Lake said during her speech, in which she also took a swipe at the “fake news” media. “You guys up there in the fake news have overstayed your welcome,” she said.

The speeches, which were intended to unite Americans of both parties, at least for the evening, included plenty of attacks on the Senate candidates. Eric Horde of Wisconsin, who is running against Senator Tammy Baldwin, who has held her seat for over a decade, said: “Where Biden and Baldwin have failed, President Trump and I will succeed.”

Bernie Moreno of Ohio followed Horde onstage and began denouncing illegal immigrants, even though his parents brought him and his siblings to the U.S. from their native Colombia as children. “Many years ago, my parents brought me and my siblings to this country legally,” Moreno said, emphasizing the word “legally.”

He spent most of his five minutes on stage blaming the Biden-Harris administration for illegal immigration into this country. Moreno is running against Senator Sherrod Brown, a very popular and long-serving member of the Senate. “A vote for Trump/Moreno is a vote for putting America first,” Moreno said before leaving the stage and making way for Mike Rogers and David McCormick.

Rogers is a Senate candidate in Michigan and McCormick, whose wife Dina Powell was deputy national security adviser during the Trump administration, is running against longtime Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey. The same arguments would be repeated by Republican Senate candidates Jim Banks (Indiana), Sam Brown (Nevada), Tim Sheehy (Montana) and Hung Cao (Virginia).

After making a pronoun joke, Sheehy, who is running against Jon Tester, said, “Jon Tester is the deciding vote for Biden’s ‘America Last’ agenda.”

Cao, a retired U.S. Navy veteran with 25 years of service, moved to the United States with his parents as a child and said the United States “saved his life.” His military experience is openly displayed and often mentioned in his public speeches. “We will vote for the love of God, the love of family and the love of the greatest country on earth,” he said. “I’m not done fighting for us yet.”

Former presidential candidate Nikki Haley, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Florida Senator Rick Scott and Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, also spoke Tuesday evening.

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