Last night, less than a week after an assassin nearly ended his life, Donald Trump delivered a marathon acceptance speech to close out the Republican convention. It began with a riveting description of his experience on Saturday. That section of the speech was, I think we can say with confidence, the most compelling thing to ever happen during a speech at a political convention. Trump seemed like himself, but also like a different man. He was clearly grateful to God that he’s still with us, and he seemed to relish every moment he had with the crowd. That could explain why, at 92 minutes, Trump’s speech was the longest nomination acceptance speech in the history of this country. He even pointed to the same immigration chart that helped save his life on Saturday, and he appeared to pick up right where he left off in Butler. The address was heartfelt. It was unifying, especially by the standards of a Trump speech. And it was yet more bad news for Democrats hoping to win any contested election in November, anywhere on the ballot. Donald Trump is a nominee who enjoys, without question, the support of a unified party and tens of millions of devoted supporters all over the country. The same obviously cannot be said for the man who is (at least for now) running against Donald Trump. At this point, the contrast between the two candidates is as clear as it could possibly be. Joe Biden is not compos mentis. He’s not humbled, nor has he ever been humble. He doesn’t have the support of his own party or his longtime friends and allies. Everyone from George Clooney to Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama have knifed him in the back. And now, according to the New York Times and various other outlets across the political spectrum, Biden’s finally considering dropping out of the race. Newsmax’s Mark Halperin has gone further with his reporting, claiming that Biden has already made the decision to step aside. Watch:   This is obviously a fast-moving situation, and it’s quite possible that, any moment now, Joe Biden will announce he’s stepping aside. Then again, it’s possible that all of these reports are planted by Barack Obama’s team, to further pressure Biden to quit the race. In either event, it’s a humiliating situation for Joe Biden and his inner circle of advisers, which now consists of an openly corrupt crackhead and a narcissistic fake doctor with an education degree. All this is to say, it’s still technically conceivable that Joe Biden — without any support from his own voters or colleagues, and without any money from donors — will somehow power through this dementia and cobble together a presidential run. That campaign would be like watching the Hindenburg in slow motion. It’s not especially likely at the moment but the possibility is there, at least for now. All of this drama is unprecedented in modern politics. Nevertheless, it’s important to understand one point about this palace intrigue: None of it is about the fact that Joe Biden is old and senile. That’s the claim you’re hearing, but it’s not true. The premise is false. Democrats aren’t calling on Joe Biden to step aside because they just discovered that he’s demented. They’ve known it all along, and so has the media. They were perfectly ready and willing to install Joe Biden for another four years, knowing very well that he cannot do the job.  The only thing that’s changed is public awareness of the extent of Biden’s mental decline — something that should have been obvious to the public all along. But it wasn’t obvious to everyone, because Democrats went to great lengths to obscure information about Biden’s mental status from voters. The self-described “defenders of democracy” took it upon themselves to lie and deceive the electorate so they could keep their puppet in power. But the debate revealed everything they’d been trying to hide. And Donald Trump, by the grace of God, was not assassinated last weekend.  WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show So here we are. Democrats have no choice but to turn on Biden. They’re engaging in a historic effort — post-primary season but pre-convention — to oust their party’s democratically chosen candidate from their ticket. If this effort succeeds, it’ll set quite a precedent for the Democrats. It’ll mean that winning the Democratic presidential primary comes with an asterisk — which is that the voters’ decision doesn’t really matter. The party elites can remove you at any time they like. This is what they’re going for. And they’re all-in at this point. Pretty much every significant politician in the party has made it clear that they want Biden gone. At the same time, Democrats also appear to be trying to cover-up the extent to which they lied about Biden’s senility for the past several years. They’re doing it quietly but very aggressively. As Trump was speaking last night in Milwaukee, Joe Biden’s DOJ filed a motion in court to oppose the public release of audio tapes of Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. That interview, you may remember, involved Joe Biden repeatedly forgetting key biographical details about his own life, including the year his son died. It was an interview that went so poorly that Hur decided Joe Biden was effectively incapable of being prosecuted, because the jury would sympathize with his senility.  But as Trump delivered his acceptance speech at the RNC, the DOJ claimed that the audio of that interview can’t be released due to, “pending investigations and reasonably anticipated future investigations.” But that doesn’t make sense. The transcript is already available. Hur has already testified about his interview with Biden. And the audio is clearly newsworthy and relevant to the public interest, because it would show the extent of the mental decline of the president of the United States.  The only conceivable reason to hide the audio from the public at this point is if it’s different from the transcript that the DOJ released. That would make sense. Did the DOJ sanitize the transcript in any way? Does the audio contain damning evidence of Joe Biden’s mental decline that hasn’t been revealed publicly yet? Those are fair questions. And at this hour, the DOJ is doing everything it can to avoid answering them. At this point, it’s fair to conclude that they’re not simply covering up Joe Biden’s senility. They’re covering up their role in covering up Joe Biden’s senility, too. The cover up is worse than the crime, as they say. So what about the cover up of the cover up?  You might remember that, just a few months ago, Adam Schiff — who has now publicly called on Biden to step aside — grilled Robert Hur about his comments in his report about Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive failures. Schiff suggested that Hur had completely made up his observations about Biden because he wanted to hurt Biden politically. Watch: Adam Schiff — now calling on Biden to drop out due to his declining cognitive condition — just three months ago was raging at Robert Hur for daring to include an accurate assessment of Biden’s cognitive condition in his report. The Big Lie about Biden’s mental fitness was… pic.twitter.com/Q6MCbVzrKs — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 18, 2024 Now, just a few months later, Schiff admits that Joe Biden has major cognitive issues, and he needs to step aside. But of course, nothing changed with Joe Biden in the past few months. Adam Schiff knew during that hearing that everything Hur said in his report was accurate. He was just hoping to deceive the electorate for long enough to keep the Democrats’ puppet in office. But we’re still not allowed to listen to the audio of Biden’s interview with Hur, probably because that would be even worse for Biden than the transcript. So the cover-up continues. Even as Democrats admit what we knew all along, they’re still hiding information from us. But there’s some tape that Democrats can’t hide, because it’s all over the internet. For months, Democrats told us that Joe Biden was fine, and that only Right-wing propaganda outlets would claim otherwise. Here’s one of my favorite before-and-after videos, showing MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace pre-debate and post-debate. She begins by saying it’s a “cheap fake” to say that Joe Biden was lost on stage at a fundraiser, even though the video clearly shows that he was frozen until Barack Obama led him away. (This was the fundraiser that George Clooney attended, and said Biden was visibly shot for the whole night). Then, post-debate, she’s talking ominously about how Joe Biden has lost the support of his party. Watch:   In the span of about a week, videos of Joe Biden’s decline went from an “insidious trend” to something Democrats couldn’t deny anymore. This is the kind of whiplash you get if you watch MSNBC. But the fact that Democrat Party propagandists even tried to deceive their viewers like this in the first place tells you everything you need to know about their views on “democracy.” They don’t believe the voters have a right to know anything. They will lie to their faces, again and again, with no shame whatsoever. Not a single Democrat politician or media personality has apologized for lying, deliberately, about Joe Biden’s incompetence for the past few years. Nancy Pelosi, who’s now pressuring Biden to step aside, certainly hasn’t apologized, nor is she capable of doing so. Pelosi was telling us just a year ago that Joe Biden’s age was irrelevant, and that he’s youthful like a “kid”. Watch: Nancy Pelosi was saying Joe Biden is “just a kid” to her at 80-years-old, because she’s three years older than he is. The problem is that people’s brains don’t all age the same way. Some people develop dementia by the age of 80, and some people don’t. And Nancy Pelosi knew, when she gave that interview, that Joe Biden had developed dementia. But laughed it off, and so did Joe Scarborough. Now both of them have the new memo, and they’re saying the exact opposite. And speaking of Scarborough, his about-face is actually one of the more striking ones. I’ve played some of these videos before, but it’s worth repeating because of how over-the-top it was. Four months ago, Scarborough was saying that Biden is “sharper than he’s ever been.” Even after the debate, Scarborough was defending Biden. Now he’s saying he has to go. Here’s the before and after: Whether it’s Joe Scarborough or Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff or the DOJ, all of these people know exactly what they’re doing. They engaged in a concerted effort to hide Joe Biden’s dementia, and now they’re pretending it’s a major issue — but only because they can’t deny it anymore. This is a cover-up that reveals exactly how much the self-appointed defenders of democracy really care about “democracy,” and this country. They were planning to launch us headlong into a constitutional crisis with a late-stage dementia patient starting a fresh four-year term. This is the same party that rigged a primary against Bernie Sanders, and that prevented anyone from debating Joe Biden ahead of the primaries this year. They have no interest in democracy. They don’t care what voters want. Whoever they find to replace Biden, remember that their ideal candidate isn’t any more competent or intelligent than Joe Biden is right now. Their ideal candidate is one they can control just as easily as they controlled him.

“The View” host Joy Behar complained on Friday about former President Donald Trump’s claim that God had been watching out for him when, after he turned his head at the last second, a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his ear rather than striking him in the head. Behar argued that only a narcissist would say that God had saved his life, especially when someone else — firefighter and hero Corey Comperatore — had died in the same shooting that he survived. WATCH: The View’s Joy Behar did NOT like that Trump said God was watching over him at his PA rally. BEHAR: “I was raised Catholic. I’m a Christian girl. When something like this happens to you…and you say something like ‘God was watching me,’ that is a very un-Christian thing to… pic.twitter.com/3qvF0VfAah — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 19, 2024 “I want to point out one thing,” Behar began. “I’m speaking to fellow Christians. I was raised Catholic. I’m a Christian girl. When something like this happens to you, like this assassination attempt, and you say something like ‘God was watching me,’ that is a very un-Christian thing to say because it’s very narcissistic.” Behar went on to accuse Trump of suggesting that because God was looking out for him, He was not looking out for Comperatore – but halfway through the accusation, she forgot Comperatore’s name. “What about Corey – what’s his name? — Comperatore, the fireman who also got killed? What about all those guys that killed on — Sandy Hook, all of those people,” she continued. “Oh, God was watching me and not watching them? There’s something very disturbing about that.” “God should’ve pulled the plug on that mic yesterday!” cohost Ana Navarro chimed in. Behar laughed: “Wait, God is a technician now?” Trump has said on several occasions that he believes “God alone” could have saved him from the bullet that reportedly came within a quarter inch of taking his life.

Migrant children held in the United States after crossing the border illegally were subject to “pervasive” sexual abuse at the hands of federal contractors, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. The department filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key Programs, which operates homes for underage illegal immigrants awaiting placement with “sponsors” in the United States. Federal law bars minors who cross the border illegally from being returned to their home country. Southwest Key holds more than 6,000 children in 29 shelters staffed by “youth care workers.” The lawsuit says Southwest Key records show staff members repeatedly covered for each other as they preyed on children. “A Southwest Key Youth Care Worker who in 2022 repeatedly sexually abused a five-year-old girl, an eight-year-old girl, and an eleven-year-old girl at Casa Franklin in El Paso, Texas,” the lawsuit says. “The eight-year-old girl disclosed that the Youth Care Worker repeatedly entered their bedrooms in the middle of the night to touch their ‘private area,’ and he threatened to kill their families if they disclosed the abuse.” Southwest Key has received $4 billion by the federal government since 2019. Payments have grown as illegal border crossings increased, rising from $391 million in 2020 to nearly $1 billion thus far in fiscal year 2024, according to federal spending data. The lawsuit comes amid revelations that unaccompanied minors who come to the United States are frequently subject to unsafe conditions. Federal employees told Congress this month that migrant children are first turned over to contractors with limited training, and then sent to live with unvetted sponsors. Deborah White, an HHS whistleblower, recalled the “horrifying” realization that “children were being trafficked with billions of taxpayer dollars by a contractor failing to vet sponsors and process children safely, with government officials complicit in it.” White described the process as “taxpayer-funded slavery and child trafficking.” The lawsuit describes “over one hundred Reports of unlawful sexual abuse or harassment of children in Southwest Key’s care since at least 2015. “These instances are examples of Southwest Key’s longstanding pattern or practice of illegal sexual abuse, harassment, and misconduct against children in Southwest Key’s care. Southwest Key failed to consistently correct its practices and permitted the harassment to continue without adequate intervention,” the suit reads. In one case, a teenage girl at Casa Kokopelli in Mesa, Arizona told a “clinician” that she missed her mother, and “the clinician turned the conversation to sex,” and said in a discussion with another teenage girl that he “can be more than your clinician if you would allow me to,” the suit said. “Another 2019 Southwest Key Report details how, at Casa Rio Grande in San Benito, Texas, a child reported a male Youth Care Worker told him he liked dating ‘transexuals, transgenero, personas gay,’ translated to ‘transexuals, transgender, gay individuals.’” “The Youth Care Worker asked the child if he dressed as a woman and went to work at night; while asking this, the Youth Care Worker caressed his own groin. After the child complained, Southwest Key transferred the child to a shelter in another state. Southwest Key ultimately reinstated the Youth Care Worker,” the lawsuit alleges. In 2022 at Casa Norma Linda in Los Fresnos, Texas, two employees helped a third conduct and conceal a relationship with a 16-year old unaccompanied minor. In 2023 at Casa Las Palmas in Mesa, Arizona, a minor reported that a Youth Care Worker allegedly said he wanted to “give it to her hard” and asked, “How are the women of Venezuela?” The same year, a boy said that a female Shift Leader “touched the child while he was in a shower, and verbally harassed him, ‘constantly’ telling him that she wanted him to stay in the shelter and ‘have children with her,” the suit said. Despite Southwest Key’s internal investigation finding that the employee committed misconduct, she “continued employment with Southwest Key.” There was also a Shift Leader who in 2019 allegedly “repeatedly raped, abused, and threatened a teenage girl throughout her shelter stay at Casa Montezuma in Channelview, Texas.” The girl said other employees covered for him by changing shifts with him so he could target her. The Justice Department alleges Southwest Key staff exploited the children’s illegal status and lack of parents to threaten them into silence. “A Southwest Key employee at Casa Franklin in El Paso, Texas, threatened an eight-year-old female child that if she reported his abuse to anyone, he would ‘kill her family.'” “A Southwest Key manager at Casa Montezuma in Channelview, Texas, threatened the female child he was harassing that if she reported the sexual abuse, she would be hospitalized. A Southwest Key employee at Casa Nueva Esperanza in Brownsville, Texas, discouraged a child from pursuing a report of harassment by telling the child it would delay her reunification with her family or adversely affect her placement with a sponsor,” it added. When a child reported sexual abuse by staff and was covered by hickeys, the employee she reported it to told her to “cover up” the hickeys and did not report it to anyone. The child reported it to a second employee, who notified a supervisor who allegedly ordered that employee not to write a report. That employee tried to report it directly to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, which oversees the unaccompanied minors. Southwest Key, which has received billions from ORR, claimed it did not have a phone number for the office. Anais Biera Miracle, the contractor’s communications officer, told The Daily Wire in a statement that the suit “does not present the accurate picture of the care and commitment our employees provide to the youth and children.” “We are in constant communication and continue to closely partner with the Office of Refugee Resettlement,” Miracle said. The Justice Department’s suit asks for monetary damages “to each person aggrieved by Southwest Key’s discriminatory conduct,” as well as “civil penalties against Southwest Key to vindicate the public interest.” The Biden administration has relaxed the vetting of unaccompanied migrant “sponsors,” removing DNA testing and, in many cases, FBI background checks. In some cases, the Department of Health and Human Services knowingly sent children to live with gang members. A third of unaccompanied migrants—some 85,000 children—are currently missing. White, the HHS whistleblower, says she faced blowback when she attempted to check on a migrant child. “When I checked on a child’s welfare at another facility I was told, ‘Do not do that again. Once these children leave here…they’re gone and they are no longer your responsibility.’” Related: Whistleblowers Detail How 85,000 ‘Unaccompanied Minors’ Went Missing After Biden Admin Dropped Them Off With ‘Sponsors’

President Joe Biden released a statement on Friday indicating that he has no plans of dropping out of the presidential race as calls for him to do so continue to mount from members of his own party. Biden issued a statement through his campaign where he attacked former President Donald Trump over his speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, claiming “for over 90 minutes, he focused on his own grievances, with no plan to unite us and no plan to make life better for working people.” The 81-year-old made false claims about Trump’s policy platform and falsely claimed that Trump “destroyed our economy once and will inflict pain on the middle class” and that he “wants to gut the checks and balances of our Constitution and rule as a dictator on day one.” “Together, as a party and as a country, we can and will defeat him at the ballot box,” Biden said. “I look forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week to continue exposing the threat of Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda while making the case for my own record and the vision that I have for America: one where we save our democracy, protect our rights and freedoms, and create opportunity for everyone.” Dozens of elected Democrats have called on Biden to drop out the race following his disastrous debate performance against Trump late last month where he showed obvious signs of cognitive impairment. Even as top Democrat figures have at least privately warned Biden that he needs to drop out or face dragging the entire party down with him this fall, those close to Biden are remaining defiant. Biden Campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said this morning: “You have heard from the President directly time and again: He is in this race to win, and he is our nominee, and he’s going to be our President for a second term.”

The contrast between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party has never been starker in terms of the consolidation of the parties and their unity going forward. Here’s the reality: The Republican Party is unified behind President Trump in unique and extraordinary ways. And the Democratic Party might not have a candidate for the presidency come Sunday. Let’s begin with the triumphant presentation of Donald Trump as his party’s nominee for the third consecutive time, which is an extraordinary feat. On a pure political level, the fact that Trump won in 2016 was astonishing. The fact that he was the nominee the next time around was natural. The fact that after losing in 2020, he’s back in 2024, the nominee, and the front-runner for the presidency itself, is an astonishing political feat. The RNC has been about building out the Trump coalition. It’s been about providing permission structures for people, who historically have not voted Republican and who would not be spotted dead in a red hat, to actually vote Republican and wear the red hat.  It is an amazing thing., and you can feel it. You can feel there’s a vibe shift in the United States. Tons of people who never in a million years would have said they would even think about voting for Trump are now saying they are voting for Donald Trump, Take the tech bros in San Francisco for example. There are countless tech workers in San Francisco who, sotto voce, are very against the Democrats because they don’t like wokeness; they don’t like regulation. They think their economic interests are undermined by Democrats, which they are. And they believe the meritocracy, which they rely upon, is being destroyed from the inside by the Democratic Party. But for years, they would never cite those factors and say they were going to vote for Trump. But now, a lot of them are saying precisely that.  You’re starting to see this from people pretty much everywhere across the country.  The dam has now broken. For years, tremendous intimidation existed about voting for Trump or publicly speaking in support of him; social opprobrium descended upon you if you said you would even consider voting for Trump. That seems to be gone right now. That is a testament to both the Democrats’ incompetence in office and a testament to Donald Trump’s campaign thus far, which has been markedly more disciplined than ever. In the last four weeks, Trump has basically disappeared from the public scene. As a consequence, he has had the best four-week period of any presidential candidate I’ve ever seen. He had his debate with Biden, and then he had the brains to stay out of the spotlight while Biden took all incoming fire because of his incredibly terrible performance. Trump has had a few rallies here and there, but he mainly let the media focus in on his opponent. And now his opponent is so much on the ropes that he may be gone by this weekend. Then, of course, there was the assassination attempt against President Trump in which he displayed remarkable physical bravery getting up while the shooter was presumably still out there. He didn’t know the shooter was dead when he was already getting up and waving his fist, shouting, “Fight.” The first 15 to 20 minutes of Trump’s speech was some of the best Trump you’ll ever see. He spoke for the first time publicly about nearly being murdered live on national television. Trump was subdued. It was all the things you would want from Trump in this speech.  WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show I suggested earlier in the week that the best thing Trump could do would be to come out and say, “Listen. Being shot in the head changes a man, and it makes you think about the important things in life. It makes you think about the fact that we’re all Americans. And as much as we may disagree on politics, at the end of the day, we’re brothers and sisters, and we all have to be together.”  For the first 20 minutes, that’s what the speech was. After that, it turned into a Donald Trump campaign presentation. If you’ve ever been to a Trump campaign event, he basically does a comedy routine; he rambles, and he moves around. That’s what it turned into for the last 73 minutes. You could see in real time the reaction in the room. Everybody in the room loved him — but 93 minutes is a long time. Because it was so long, it started to lose momentum. Maybe that doesn’t matter very much because the purpose of the speech is simply to unify the party. And if that’s the case, then the speech is irrelevant. It really doesn’t matter what he said.  What I do believe is that it was a missed opportunity from the perspective of what it could have accomplished, which was to put the race basically out of reach for the Democrats. If the speech had been the first 20 minutes and a five-minute capper, I think this race would be over. It wasn’t, not because of anything nefarious or terrible, but because when President Trump gets in front of a crowd, he responds to the crowd; he really likes talking with his fans. I feel that this is necessary to point out because it was a missed opportunity. I’m a huge baseball fan. If you’ve ever been to a baseball game where your team is up three runs in the sixth inning with the bases loaded and one out, and one hit breaks the game wide open but the other team brings in a reliever and gets out of the situation, and then you don’t get any runs and you miss the opportunity, you start to have the feeling in the pit of your stomach like this game is not over yet; there are still a lot of moves left on this particular chessboard. On the Democratic side, we’re seeing something unprecedented: The candidate wins the nomination and then after winning the nomination considers giving it up. CNN’s Jake Tapper actually got it right, saying: Meanwhile, events no less momentous are playing out in Delaware where President Biden is self-isolating after testing positive for Covid, we’re told. To hear top Democrats tell it, President Biden is like Bruce Willis’ character in the movie ‘The Sixth Sense. He is the only one who seems unaware of his grim fate. Democrats are preparing for the coup, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial page, which wrote:  One thing we’ve learned over the years is that Washington Democrats are ruthless when threatened by a loss of power. You almost have to admire their cold-blooded calculation. President Biden is now learning this harsh lesson as the Democratic-media complex organizes to, er, persuade him to withdraw from the presidential race. That effort, which began after Mr. Biden’s failed debate on June 27, is now in full orchestrated gale. The President hasn’t taken the hint to drop out from the withdrawal calls by the media and Congress’s backbenchers, so now the big names are letting it be known they too want Joe to go. It’s very difficult to tell right now whether all the pressure tactics on Biden and all the reporting that he’s going to leave is wish-casting by Democrats in the media or whether it’s true because the media desperately want him to drop out. Democratic leadership believes the best possibility for defeating Trump is, in fact, getting rid of Biden and putting someone else in. Barack Obama tried to stick the final knife into Biden over the last 24 hours. He leaked to the Washington Post that he told allies recently that President Biden’s path to victory has greatly diminished, and he thinks the president needs to seriously consider the viability of his candidacy. According to reporter Mark Halperin, Biden will not resign the presidency and most importantly, Biden will not endorse Kamala Harris, which is the final knife in the back for her. He elevated her to the vice presidency over the advice of his wife, Jill, and then on his way out, he will stick the knife in. There have been rumors about an open Democratic National Convention. Here’s the problem with that: You can’t restrict it. Once it’s an open convention, anybody can get in. And I’m going to put out a dark horse name no one is talking about: Bernie Sanders. He has the hardest consolidated base inside the Democratic Party. Why wouldn’t he make a play for the top spot? Yes, he’s really old, but so what? He’s still significantly livelier than Biden is at this point. What happens if Biden steps aside? The delegates are pledged to him. If he frees his delegates, they do not have to go to Harris, who is a terrible, terrible candidate, but is not going to step out of the way. But with all of this said, despite the fact Trump has just had the best month of any presidential candidate in recent memory, in the Real Clear Politics polling average, he is at 47.7%. He’s not at 55%. He’s not at 54%. He’s at 47.7%. And even though he’s doing really, really well in the swing states, Republicans are going to have to fight this fight all the way down to the wire. For Republicans: Do not get complacent. You cannot afford to be complacent at this point in time.

Former member of the country duo Florida Georgia Line Brian Kelley announced that he will release a new MAGA-themed song next Friday. Following the country star’s performance on Wednesday at the Republican National Convention, Kelley shared the news on Instagram that he’d be dropping a new song titled “Make America Great Again.” While he didn’t share a clip of his new song, he did include the title which was part of former President Donald Trump’s slogan during his 2016 presidential campaign and has been part of his current run for the White House in the 2024 election.  During the third night of the RNC, Kelley rocked the house, entertaining Republican delegates with his song “American Spirit.” #Country #Music Brian Kelley Performs During RNC, Teases New Song Titled ‘Make America Great Again’ https://t.co/1Q7I9YRP1N — Brandon Thompson (@brandonpromo) July 18, 2024 The chorus reads, “American spirit, that red, white and blue/It’s flying for freedom, for me and for you/It’s what I believe in, this country I love/That American spirit runs in our blood.” It was originally released on the July 4th weekend in 2022 and pays tribute to the fallen men and women of the military along with those who have served throughout America’s history. The song was inspired by Kelley’s grandfather, John Edward Kelley, who served in the United States Army during World War II, and earned two purple hearts, Billboard magazine noted. Kelley was one of a handful of country artists who showed up at the RNC. Others included Lee Greenwood, Kid Rock, Jason Aldean, and Chris Janson, among others. In the final night of the RNC, right before Trump officially accepted the Republican Party’s 2024 nomination, Kid Rock got the crowd riled up as he performed his Trump-themed version of his song “American Bad A**,” as previously reported. The 53-year-old rocker — born Robert James Ritchie — took the stage and called on the delegates to raise their fist in the air and say, “fight, fight,” and the entire room of delegates yelled back, “fight, fight.” The comments were reminiscent of what Trump told his supporters following the attempted assassination on the former president’s life at a rally in Pennsylvania, which left one supporter dead and two others, including Trump, injured. Kid Rock rocked the room with verses about being the “cowboy, I’m the singer in black. Throw your fist in the air, let me see where you at.” “Say fight, fight,” he added. “Say fight, fight. Say Trump, Trump.” Related: ‘Fight, Fight’: Kid Rock Shows Up At RNC With New Trump-Themed Song