President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver the closing remarks tonight at the convention in Dallas.
\n\nFormer White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt spoke at the GOP convention tonight, urging audience members to vote for Republicans in November and telling stories about her time at the White House.
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\n\n“It feels good to be back behind a podium,” Leavitt said when she walked onto the stage.
\n\nLeavitt, 29, left her job at the White House two weeks ago. She now works for the Trump-affiliated PAC MAGA Inc., which is spending to support Republican candidates in competitive races across the country.
\n\nHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tonight brought back his yearslong claims against the safety of Covid-19 vaccines and said the pandemic pushed him to leave the Democratic Party.
\n\n"During Covid, I watched the Democratic Party turned against every one of its essential values, its principles, and all of the policies that define my party," Kennedy said onstage at the GOP midterm covention. "Democrats turned away from gold standard research, and blindly defended industry-sponsored, agenda-driven science written by corrupt and captive regulatory agencies."
\n\nKennedy added that Americans were forced to "wear masks and to…
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