The second day of the Republican Convention didn’t disappoint–the chaos continued. After the roll call vote declaring Trump as the official GOP nominee, energy in the room plummeted. And it did not return. Even when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan spoke, they met a stale room, light applause and even some booing. Trump randomly showed up via satellite. And the night ended with many more speeches chock full of lies and absolutely nothing about the economy.
ROLL CALL VOTE DRAMA
Edward-Isaac Dovere @IsaacDovere: Remember when Never Trump was a thing? [7/19/2016 7:30 p.m. EDT]
Philip Klein @philipaklein: Trump got under 14% of the vote in DC, but 100% of the delegates. [7/19/2016 6:30 p.m. EDT]
Garrett Haake @GarrettHaake: A @DCGOP delegate tells me they’re furious and confused. Were promised by the RNC that their votes would be counted as cast #gopconvention
Tarini Parti @tparti: DC dels say they’re upset their votes for Rubio & kasich went to Trump. But don’t want to call system “unfair” [7/19/2016 6:33 p.m. EDT]
Alex Burns @alexburnsNYT: At trade-protectionist Donald Trump’s convention, Matt Bevin boasts that Kentucky is home to the world’s largest Toyota factory [7/19/2016 6:41 p.m. EDT]
AJ Spiker @AJSpiker: @GOP hell will freeze over before my daughter/wife see me support @realDonaldTrump ever [7/19/2016 7:03 p.m. EDT]
Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin:
What happened?
-17 people ran
-Trump discovered base was unmoved by GOP agenda, moved by resentment
-No one responded until too late [7/19/2016 7:38 p.m. EDT]
THE CROWD WASN’T FEELING IT
Ed O’Keefe @edatpost: This is the quietest I’ve ever heard a convention hall upon announcement of a presidential nominee. [7/19/2016 8:09 p.m. EDT]
Toure’ @Toure: On the day Donald Trump was officially nominated, Roger Ailes was being removed from Fox News. It’s the end of the GOP as we know it. [7/19/2016 8:29 p.m. EDT]
Jon Ralston @RalstonReports: How many conventions feature boos during the roll call? [7/19/2016 6:26 p.m. EDT]
Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin: Crowd talk almost as loud as Mukasey in arena [7/19/2016 8:44 p.m. EDT]
Alex Burns @alexburnsNYT: Throngs of delegates just openly ignoring Mukasey, socializing on the floor, milling around. Yeesh. [7/19/2016 8:47 p.m. EDT]
Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin:This is about the most disinterested I have ever seen a crowd in a speech. [7/19/2016 8:46 p.m. EDT]
Philip Gourevitch @PGourevitch: Torture-champion Mukasey is a helluva guy to tell us about compromising national security and champion rule of constitutional law [7/19/2016 8:48 p.m. EDT]
Ben Pershing @benpershing: Waterproofing company guy getting better reception than the former AG [7/19/2016 8:50 p.m. EDT]
Katherine Miller @katherinemiller: Hear that electric enthusiasm in the room for principles [7/19/2016 9:26 p.m. EDT]
Jeremy Diamond @jdiamond1: Wow, very audible boos as Mitch McConnell takes stage [7/19/2016 8:10 p.m. EDT]
John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz: Delegates actively booing Sen. Mitch McConnell. Party on the verge of a nervous breakdown. [7/19/2016 8:10 p.m. EDT]
Matt Viser @mviser: This crowd booed Mitch McConnell, and only lightly applauded newly elected GOP senators and Paul Ryan reminding them he was their VP nominee [7/19/2016 9:20 p.m. EDT
Aaron Blake @AaronBlake: Haha this is the NRA Chris Cox. The program says it’s the ex-congressman and former SEC chairman Christopher Cox [7/19/2016 9:01 p.m. EDT]
Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin: This is truly incredible. It’s like the nominee does not exist. [7/19/2016 9:25 p.m. EDT]
TRUMP BEAMS IN FROM FAR, FAR AWAY
Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin: Trump on Jumbotron barely gets applause. This crowd is half there. [7/19/2016 9:06 p.m. EDT]
Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller: Trump now addressing the convention remotely [7/19/2016 9:05 p.m. EDT]
Jason Horowitz @jasondhorowitz:”Melania and I had such a great time last night,” Donald Trump said in a video from far away. [7/19/2016 9:06 p.m. EDT]
Gideon Resnick @gideonresnick:”We are going to win the state of Ohio,” Trump says a day after his campaign trashed its governor. [7/19/2016 9:06 p.m. EDT]
Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel: Why did Trump film this from his bathroom? [7/19/2016 9:07 p.m. EDT]
Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel: Also, why is he screaming? [7/19/2016 9:07 p.m. EDT]
SPEAKERS FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THEIR NOMINEE: THEY LIE
Joy Reid @joyannreid: Ok, who gets to tell Chris Christie about Trump and Manafort’s affinity for Putin? [7/19/2016 9:45 p.m. EDT]
Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin: Wait, Christie is arguing Clinton is too soft on Putin? Does he know who the nominee is? [7/19/2016 9:45 p.m. EDT]
John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz: Hillary removed mention of Putin’s war against Ukraine and our support from it from the platform! Guilty or not gui–wait, that’s Trump [7/19/2016 9:50 p.m. EDT]
Joy Reid @joyannreid: Eric Trump just said, with absolutely zero foundation, that Hillary Clinton has “proposed” to “destroy Medicare.” [7/19/2016 10:15 p.m. EDT]
Joy Reid @joyannreid: This person, Eric Trump, has taken whole paragraphs worth of paranoid fantasies and cobbled them into a speech. Remarkable. [7/19/2016 10:15 p.m. EDT]
Matt Viser @mviser: Ben Carson eats up his time by complaining about the crowd clapping and eating up his time. [7/19/2016 10:35 p.m. EDT]
Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer: Ben Carson is still complaining about time to speak. [7/19/2016 10:34 p.m. EDT]
Chris Cillliza @TheFix: Word. Salad. [7/19/2016 10:37 p.m. EDT]
Josh Kraushaar @HotlineJosh: Saul Alinsky is NOT on the prompter. [7/19/2016 10:38 p.m. EDT]
Dan Eggen @DanEggenWPost: Don’t hear a lot of Lucifer references at political conventions [7/19/2016 10:38 p.m. EDT]
Kevin Cirilli @kevcirilli: CLEVELAND —
BEN CARSON’s is off-script. [7/19/2016 10:38 p.m. EDT]
James Pindell [email protected] Fruit salad #RNCinCLE [7/19/16 10:41 p.m. EDT]
Jessica Taylor @JessicaTaylor: I am still not sure what tonight’s theme “Make America Work Again” was supposed to convey. [7/19/2016 10:37 p.m. EDT]
Zeke Miller @ZekeJMiller Carson is going rogue. This is NOT in his prepared text [7/19/2016 10:38 p.m. EDT]
Jonathan Chait [email protected] Ben Carson talking about how Clinton is an agent of Saul Alinsky and Lucifer. Also Carson still does not have eyes. [7/19/16 10:39 p.m. EDT]
Michael Grunwald [email protected] Now we’re hearing how Hillary worships a Satan-worshipper. Going after those undecided voters. #RNCinCLE [7/19/16 10:39 p.m. EDT]
Matthew Yglesias [email protected] I hadn’t understood why Hillary did Benghazi until Ben Carson added the valuable Lucifer context. [7/19/16 10:40 p.m. EDT]
James Fallows @JamesFallows: Two more days left in the convention, but it’s going to be hard for anyone to match moon-bat tone of Ben Carson’s Lucifer / Alinsky speech. [7/19/2016 10:42 p.m. EDT]
Ross Douthat [email protected] The unintentional comedy of this evening should not distract from how sickening it is. [7/19/16 10:49 p.m. EDT]