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Monday’s lineup will be Sen. Tim Carolina of South Carolina, the lone Black Republican of the House, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana, reps. Florida’s Matt Gaetz and Ohio’s Jim Jordan, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, Republican National Committee Chairman Ronna McDaniel, Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, who chairs the Trump Victory Committee’s Finance Committee.
Other notable names include State of Georgia, Rep. Vernon Jones, a Black Democrat who supports the president; Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk; Andrew Pollack, whose daughter was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla .; and Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who earlier this summer aimed guns at Protestants from the stairs of their homes.
On Tuesday, First Lady Melania Trump will speak, as will Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, although reports from Israel; Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky; Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa; former Attorney General Pam Bondi of Florida; and Attorney General Jeanette Nuñez of Florida and Daniel Cameron of Kentucky.
The president’s children, Eric and Tiffany Trump, are also scheduled to speak that night, along with Nicholas Sandmann, a Covington Catholic high school student who submitted to CNN and The Washington Post for libel, and Mary Ann Mendoza, whose son, Sgt. Brandon Mendoza, was killed by an undocumented immigrant in a drunk driving collision in 2014.
When asked about Pompeo’s unusual set-up, approaching a political convention while on an official foreign trip, McDaniel would not speak. told CBS ‘Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation” that the RNC and Trump campaign paid for all their events, including the programming and stage.
Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence and White House Councilor Kellyanne Conway will speak on Wednesday night, which will also include Sens Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Joni Ernst of Iowa; Gov. Christi Name of South Dakota; and reps. Dan Crenshaw of Texas and Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin of New York.
Trump campaign adviser Lara Trump, who is married to the son of President Eric Trump, and Madison Cawthorn, the North Carolina candidate who defeated the White House election in a GOP primary for chief of staff Mark Meadows ‘Congress chair, will also speak that night.
The final night will feature speeches by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, Leader of Senate Majority Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Leader of House Minority Kevin McCarthy of California, rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey (who resigned from the Democratic Party in December), senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump, aide Ja’Ron Smith and White House and Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer.
Thursday lineup also includes UFC President Dana White; evangelist Franklin Graham; Alice Johnson, an advocate for criminal justice reform who received a complaint in 2018. and, of course, the president himself, who will accept the nomination at the White House instead of Charlotte, NC, or Jacksonville, Fla., where Republicans intended to personally hold their convention.
Some delegates are still gathering in Charlotte. However, McDaniel insisted that everyone be tested before going to town and that tests be carried out on the site, adding that Republicans took action to allow people to live their lives while maintaining a convention in a healthy, safe manner.
From the president’s speech at the White House on Thursday night, McDaniel said that “it is being paid for by the Republican National Committee and the campaign, not by the taxpayers.”
