Republican National Convention **live commentary thread**

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- Of the seventy-one speakers, almost exactly two-thirds are men

- Thirty-three speakers are involved in politics (46%), fourteen are businessmen (20%), eight are military-related (11%), and six are in the entertainment industry (8%)

- Seven speakers have some family/business relation with Donald Trump, five of them being his wife and children

- Twenty-five speakers either ran in the GOP presidential primaries or will be up for elections in the next 2 years (The latter making up twenty speakers, 28%)

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Trump unleashing tweets at his biggest enemies in this chaotic procedural moment...

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Aren't the latest FEC numbers supposed to be out real soon?

If another report drops during this convention of Trump's pisspoor campaign funding, I can't imagine the atmosphere on the floor getting more dire

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I guess Trump is now arriving back to Cleveland via helicopter

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So far, the Republicans this morning on TV look like dead men walking. Between Cruz, "party unity", disorganization within the campaign, Christie's mock trial, Carson's Lucifer comments and Trump's NATO comments just in time for breakfast, no one knows what the hell to say anymore. It really looks bleak

EDIT: It is 5:41 am pacific and CNN brought Gary Johnson on live in Cleveland. It's already unreal and the morning is young