What to watch at the Republican National Convention this week

CNN —

After surviving an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump will be at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week to accept his third consecutive GOP presidential nomination.

A gathering already marked by one kind of uncertainty, with Trump’s vice presidential pick still a mystery, will now take place under the shadow of one of the most shocking acts of political violence in modern American history.

It’s unclear what effect the bloodshed will have on what had been expected to be a week of pomp and prime-time speeches designed to make the GOP’s best case for Trump and a Republican majority on Capitol Hill. Trump, though, has already promised the show will go on – at the Fiserv Forum and Wisconsin Center District, Milwaukee’s convention center campus – and that he is “look(ing) forward to speaking to our Great Nation this week from Wisconsin.”

Here are six things to watch:

What will change because of Saturday’s shooting?

Many of the questions that predated Saturday evening’s assassination attempt have largely faded into the background as Trump, President Joe Biden and their respective allies rush to adapt their campaigns to the new landscape.

It’s not yet clear how this contest has been altered, but what begins on Monday with the delegate roll call and concludes Thursday night with the former president’s nomination acceptance speech, clearly marks the start of something new and fraught.

“Honestly, it’s going to be a whole different speech now,” Trump told the Washington Examiner of his convention speech following the assassination attempt.

“This is a chance to bring the whole country, even the whole world, together. The speech will be a lot different, a lot different than it