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Georgia Howe (0:33)

A big week for Trump and Republicans as the president looks to flip the midterm script in a first of its kind national convention.

John Bickley (0:40)

How will the event and key campaign investments affect the party's standings?

Georgia Howe (0:44)

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, September 8th, and this is Morning Wire.

John Bickley (0:58)

VP. Vance presents a new plan to pay parents to stay home with their kids, setting off a spirited debate.

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There's no new spending here, there's no new bill that needs to be passed. Do we want to incentivize marriage and do we want to incentivize kids being able to spend a little bit of time with their parents?

Georgia Howe (1:14)

And British citizens take to the streets as boats loaded with hundreds of illegal immigrants arrive on their shores.

Beverley Turner (1:21)

The government at the moment, all they're doing is criticizing the protestors. They're not criticizing the system.

John Bickley (1:28)

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Georgia Howe (1:34)

Amid a highly competitive midterm election season and the Republican National Convention kicking off in Dallas tomorrow, President Trump is trying to press his influence in a consequential US. Senate race in Texas. A PAC affiliated with the president is opening up its coffers to inject 10 million into the campaign of Ken Paxton, the Republican candidate and state attorney general.

John Bickley (1:55)

Joining us now to break it all down is Daily Wire opinion editor and host of the new show, the District Club, Ben Domenech. Ben, thanks for coming on.

Benjamin Domenech (2:02)

Great to be with you.

John Bickley (2:04)

So let's start with the RNC. You'll be there all week for this, and the list of scheduled speakers was just released. First, what do you make of that?

Benjamin Domenech (2:12)

You know, I think that this is something that the president and his political team have been trying to make a real thing as opposed to just essentially a series of political, you know, speeches that you could hear on the floor of the US Senate or the US House, you know, on a day-to-day basis. They want to try to make it something that is truly like a midterm convention, something that we have not seen traditionally in American politics in the modern era. And I think that that's a signal that they understand that they're kind of starting off behind. There's been a lot of fractious disagreement in the Republican Party in Washington, DC of late. But I think that what you're going to actually see is really a wall-to-wall series of Republicans who are going to come out. They're going to try to send their message nationally. We'll see how much it actually resonates and how much of it actually breaks through, given that this is an event where, you know, you don't have a convention that's actually nominating someone. You just have essentially a gathering of these different politicians together to make the case that they should be sent back to Washington.

Georgia Howe (3:19)

Now, you indicated that they're going into this kind of starting off as the underdog. What's the morale in the party as this thing is kicking off?

Benjamin Domenech (3:27)

Well, the thing is that this morale level in the Republican Party at the moment is actually pretty good considering where they were a couple of months ago. One aspect of this, of course, is a very positive jobs number that came out.

Very much a confidence in the economy, feeling like things are getting back on their solid footing, feeling like the situation in the Strait of Hormuz has been resolved to a certain degree. So that makes for Republicans a situation that feels a lot more optimistic, a lot more hopeful than they perhaps had back in July.

At the same time, they really haven't found a message until most recently with this idea that they're going to lead into Democratic extremism across the board. Particularly, I think, the Michigan Senate race is one that nationalized this conversation about the rise of the DSA. Whether that resonates with voters or not, though, that's a big question. It's gonna require these politicians to kind of develop a new skill that they haven't shown to this point. A lot of these Republicans haven't made a solid case to be sent back to Washington, and they're going to be running in districts, many of them, that have been redrawn or adjusted, just given the different redistricting battles that happened over the past year. That's going to be a new challenge for a lot of different members.