Election 2024 live updates: Trump speaks at the RNC; Biden faces growing calls to drop out of presidential race
What to know about the RNCPresident Donald Trump formally accepted the GOP nomination for president during his keynote speech on the fourth and final night of the Republican National Convention. He is the first major-party presidential nominee with a felony conviction.The speech, which he said he was rewriting himself following the failed attempt to assassinate him last weekend, included some of the stump speech attack lines his campaign had urged others to avoid. During roughly 90-minute remarks, Trump attacked President Joe Biden and his administration, made inflammatory statements about immigrants and repeated false claims about election fraud.Meanwhile, Biden's campaign issues seem to be coming to a head as more allies, both privately and publicly, say it's time for him to step aside and exit the race.