MILWAUKEE — Oh, they’re friends again.
It was reconciliation night Tuesday, day two of the Republican National Convention. Many of the GOP rivals that former President Donald Trump has mercilessly beaten in two Republican Party primaries took to the convention stage to tell American voters why they now love Trump. Or at least can plug their nostrils long enough to vote for the GOP nominee — in the case of Trump’s former United Nations Ambassador and defense industry darling Nikki Haley.
All that was lacking from the prodigal sons and daughters segment was Dr. Phil.
“Tricky Nikki,” as Trump once nicknamed Haley, joined Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Ron DeSanctimonious or Meatball Ron, if you prefer), U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (Lyin’ Ted, as Trump once labeled him), U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (Little Marco), and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy (Young Vivek Ramaswamy) to talk up Trump and urge unity.
Haley, DeSantis, and Ramaswamy all lost “bigly” to Trump in his latest quest for the White House; Rubio and Cruz were vanquished challengers in 2016.
‘Our Baby Was Gone’
But the real stars of Tuesday’s lineup were the average Americans who shared their stories of loss and pain under Democrat President Joe Biden and his leftist policies. And none has proved as deadly as the administration’s open-border policies that have led to millions of illegal immigrants pouring into the United States on Biden’s watch. Some are carrying with them lethal drugs, particularly the poison that is fentanyl. The synthetic opioid has killed
