TRUMP 2016 VS. REAGAN 1976

Ronald Reagan's famous speech at the RNC 1976 convention
after losing the nomination to Gerald Ford,
photo courtesy of wikipedia,org

The program schedule has finally been announced and the biggest surprise? Tim Tebow not being on the speakers list (just kidding). There had been a lot of rumors and proposals of the people that would show up to speak at a convention headlined by Donald Trump, but the final schedule features a selection of prominent leaders and elected officials.

In other news, Henry Gomez at Cleveland.com highlighted Hillary Clinton's team utilizing the rift between Trump and Republican constituents - more specifically in Ohio. With Ohio being such an important swing state in the general election, Gomez reviewed the disconnect between Donald Trump and Ohio GOP leaders and Republican voters. Clinton is scheduled to speak in Cincinnati at the NAACP's annual conference on Monday with reported plans to aggressively push her counter-convention message.

One of the more interesting articles, in my opinion, focused on RNC Chairman Reince Priebus' interview on ABC this week when he paralleled Trump's upcoming convention speech to that of Ronald Reagan's famous convention speech after losing the 1976 Republican contest to Jimmy Carter. Priebus stated that he can foresee Trump in the Oval Office with a powerful speech on Thursday night. When asked if Trump would be sticking to a script or 'freestyling' his speech, Paul Manafort, one of Trump's top advisers, stated: "He's going to be Donald Trump."

Also, Newsday posted a wonderful picture article of some of the behind the scenes action at the RNC so far.

References
East, Kristen. (2016) RNC 2016 schedule of events and speakers. Politico. Retrieved from http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/rnc-events-speakers-convention-republicans-225683.
Newsday editors. (2016) RNC 2016 behind the scenes. Newsday. Retrieved from http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/rnc-2016-behind-the-scenes-1.12055060.
Gomez, Henry. (2016) On eve of RNC, Hillary Clinton's team highlights friction between Ohio GOP and Donald Trump. Cleveland.com. Retrieved from http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/07/on_eve_of_rnc_hillary_clintons.html.
Pelzer, Jeremy. (2016) Here's the playbook for Democrats' RNC 'counter-convention' plans in Cleveland. Cleveland.com. Retrieved from http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/07/heres_the_playbook_for_democra.html#incart_m-rpt-1.
Warmbrodt, Zachary. (2016) Priebus: Convention speech is Trump's Reagan moment. Politico. Retrieved from http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/priebus-reagan-trump-convention-225670.