MUCH.

BUT FIRST, MORE ABOUT WHAT THE MESSAGE OF SAFETY COULD LOOK LIKE AMONG REPUBLICANS AND WHAT ELSE TO EXPECT TONIGHT, WE'RE JOINED BY ERIC NEWS THAT A POLICY ANALYST AND COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY WHERE HE ALSO RESEARCHES POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND PULLING.

ERIC, THANKS FOR JOINING US.

THANK YOU.

SO AS WE'VE SAID, TONIGHT'S THEME IS MAKE AMERICA SAFE ONCE AGAIN.

WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING TO HEAR TONIGHT?

WELL, THESE ARE KEY THEMES.

AND ACTUALLY THE KEY LOGIC OF, YOU KNOW, TRUMP'S ORIGINAL 2016 CAMPAIGN WAS IMMIGRATION.

RIGHT?

AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE RECENT POLLING, GALLUP SAYS THAT THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS THAT WANT TO REDUCE IMMIGRATION IS THAT A 20 YEAR HIGH.

SO IMMIGRATION AS AN ISSUE OF THAT SNOW, THAT'S WHERE THE FOCUS OF TONIGHT.

THAT IS A KEY BENEFIT TO THE REPUBLICANS AND PART OF TRUMP'S LOGIC HIS CAMPAIGN.

YOU'RE ALSO GOING TO SEE THEY LINK IMMIGRATION TO GUN VIOLENCE, RIGHT IN CRIME.

RIGHT.

AND SO THAT WILL BE SORT OF THAT FUSION THAT WE NEED TO MAKE AMERICA SAFER AGAIN BY DEPORTING MIGRANTS AND THIS SORT OF LUNCHES AND 2.

COMPLETE LOGIC OF WHO DONALD TRUMP CRIME AND VIOLENCE COULD BE A BREAD AND BUTTER ISSUE FOR IT FOR THE G I P G O P EXCUSE ME.

COULD YOU KNOW, COULD TONIGHT SWAY ANY VOTERS IN, YOU KNOW, THE BATTLEGROUND STATES LIKE WISCONSIN.

I THINK SO BECAUSE IMMIGRATION IS ON THE TOP ISSUES AT POLLING ON PEOPLE'S MINDS.

AND IF YOU LOOK AT HOW PEOPLE VIEW TRUMP VERSUS BIDEN IMMIGRATION, TRUMP HAS A NATURAL ADVANTAGE.

SO BRINGING MORE WE TALK ABOUT IMMIGRATION HURTS BITE.

NOW THE NUMBERS SINCE BIDEN'S EXECUTIVE ORDER CLOSING THE BORDER.

PART OF CROSSINGS ARE SOME OF THE ALL-TIME LOW SINCE BIDEN TOOK OFFICE.

BUT THAT DOESN'T REALLY RESONATE WITH PEOPLE.

IT'S ABOUT THE MIGRANTS ALREADY HERE.

IT SAYS LINKAGE TO CRIME.

AND I THINK THAT BASICALLY THE MORE THAT THE TRUMP TALKS ABOUT IMMIGRATION, THE MORE BENEFITS.

SO, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, THERE MAY BE SOME CODED OR EVEN NOT SO CODED RACIAL REFERENCES TONIGHT.

BOTH TALKING IMMIGRATION, WHICH CAME UP A DECENT BIT OVER THE COURSE OF LAST NIGHT'S SPEECHES, BUT URBAN VIOLENCE, GUN VIOLENCE.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

WE'LL HEAR ALONG THOSE LINES.

OBVIOUSLY NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT GUNS BEING THE PROBLEM.

THEY'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A POLICING AND GOT TALK ABOUT ISSUES FROM PALE, FOR ILLINOIS AS THE PROBLEM.

SO AS YOU HEARD IN THAT CLIP THAT THE BROKEN WINDOWS THESIS THAT IF WE JUST CRACKED DOWN, ESPECIALLY ON SMALLER CRIMES, THEN THESE LARGER GUN VIOLENCE WILL GO AWAY AND THAT'S NOT REALLY SERVE ACCURATE.

YOU ACTUALLY LOOK AT GUN VIOLENCE.

STATISTICS IN TERMS OF THE SIZE OF OUR POPULATION CHICAGO AND AN ILLINOIS ACTION, A PER CAPITA BASIS, GUN VIOLENCE IS ACTUALLY LOWER THAN MANY SO-CALLED RED STATES.

SO REALLY NEED TO THINK ABOUT THIS.

FROM A LARGER PERSPECTIVE, YOU HAVE REPUBLICANS HAVE TAKEN VIOLENCE IN THE CITY LIKE CHICAGO.

WE'RE IN A BLUE STATE AND BLAMED IT ON THE FACT THAT IT RUN BY DEMOCRATS.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S CRIME OVER RUNNING COMMUNITIES THAT ARE RUN BY DEMOCRATS, THAT SOMETHING WE'LL PROBABLY HEAR MORE THEM ARE HERE TONIGHT.

I MEAN, I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY.

YOU CAN HEAR ABOUT REPUBLICAN UNITY, RIGHT?

THESE ARE THE 2 THEMES.

YOU'RE ALSO GOING TO HAVE SCALISE, HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER WHO IS HIMSELF A VICTIM OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE AT A A SHOOTING, A CONGRESSIONAL BASEBALL GAME.

SO WHAT HE HAS TO SEE WILL BE VERY PERSONALLY ABOUT THAT MOMENT.

SO I SEE THAT WILL PROBABLY ONE WAY THEY'LL CONNECT THE A TRAGIC EVENTS OF SATURDAY TRUMP AND ALSO SPEAK FROM THE HEART ABOUT AND TO THAT END, YOU KNOW, WITH LIKE YOU SAID, WE'RE EXPECTING TO HEAR A LOT OF PERSONAL STORIES TODAY FROM SOME OF THE SPEAKERS, INCLUDING, YOU KNOW, AT ONE OF THEIR OWN REPRESENTATIVE STEVE SCALISE, AS YOU SAID, BUT SO-CALLED EVERYDAY AMERICANS.

BUT WILL THOSE STORIES PLAY INTO THE REPUBLICAN MESSAGING?

I THINK OFTEN OUR PEERS, EVERYDAY PEOPLE ARE POWERFUL MESSENGERS, WRITE THEM ARE CREDIBLE.

THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THEIR PERSONAL EXPERIENCES RATHER THAN A POLICY POSITION.

SO THAT'S WHY THEY'RE HIGHLIGHTING AND INTERWEAVING IT THE PUBLIC LEADERS THEY'RE SHOWING UP TONIGHT.

THIS, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, THIS ALL COMES ON THE HEELS OF A THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT OVER THE WEEKEND.

THE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP MAKING A STRONG SHOWING LAST NIGHT THE FIRST NIGHT OF RNC.

HOW DOES ALL OF THIS SORT OF POSITION HIM IN THE EYES OF THE PARTY AND SET UP?

YOU KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY, SET UP THEIR THEIR CONVENTION FOR THIS WEEKEND GOING FORWARD.

TRUMP'S MESSAGING FOR THE LAST COUPLE YEARS IS THAT HE IS BEING PERSECUTED FOR REPUBLICANS.

THEY'RE GOING AFTER ME.

AND I'M HERE FOR YOU RIGHT, THAT HE'S A MARTYR.

NOW WE CAN SAY I'M LITERALLY A MARTYR.

I TOOK A BULLET FOR YOU.

I'M HERE TO BE YOUR SHIELD.

I'M UP AND I WILL SERVE SEAVIEW AND REPRESENT YOU.

AND THAT SIR REALLY PLAYS IN THAT EVENT TOTALLY PLAYS INTO HIS NARRATIVE THAT HE'S COMMUNICATING FOR THE LAST 18 MONTHS.

OKAY.

SO WE'LL