| Ian Crouch
Newsletter editor Our reporter Antonia Hitchens arrived last night in Milwaukee, where delegates were being bused from their hotels to the opening celebration of the Republican National Convention. They were greeted with a huge display of fireworks and a scene that Hitchens described to me as one of “jovial normalcy,” just a day after Saturday’s shooting in Pennsylvania. Today, looking out over the floor of the immense convention center, Hitchens saw people in seersucker suits, red dresses, cowboys hats, the usual MAGA gear. “Life Is a Highway” blasted over the loudspeakers as the delegates took their seats. “Thus far, all the rituals are intact,” Hitchens told me, “and the pageantry is proceeding exactly apace.”  Members of the color guard practicing on Sunday. | Photograph by Sinna Nasseri One thing, notably, had shifted. The buzzwords of the day from delegates and campaign officials were “unity” and “positivity”—notions that have not typically been woven into Trump’s stump speeches. “The Republican Party wants to unite all Americans,” a delegate from Florida, who was excited to attend his first convention, said. “The Party has an inclusive message. The message hasn’t changed at all. This has been the message of Donald Trump all along.” | 
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