Missouri Republicans anticipating Trump’s RNC acceptance speech
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Former President Donald Trump will take the stage at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night to accept the GOP nomination for president.
His speech has been anticipated by many in the Republican Party after an assassination attempt on Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.
Many reports say the former president rewrote his speech to focus on unity following the weekend's events.
"Is it all about unity and does he do unity, but does he also lay out a plan for the future? Does he kind of bridge that gap between, look, we're one country and these are the things I'm going to make sure we can do because they're good for everyone?" said Jay Ashcroft, Missouri's Secretary of State.
Missouri Sen. Bill Eigel of St. Charles County said aside from Trump's expected message of unity he would like to hear more on the former president's plans for immigration policy.
Watch live ABC News coverage of the convention in the player.
"I hope he talks about the illegal immigration crisis and how he's going to continue to work to solve that problem in America after Joe Biden opened up the border," Eigel said.
Eigel and Ashcroft are both seeking the party's nomination to replace outgoing Gov. Mike Parson. Both men are at the convention in Milwaukee this week.
The overarching theme for the last night of the RNC is "Make America Great Once Again." Eigel said he thinks this message will extend beyond the convention into the November election.
"This vision of America with less government, more defense of our rights, less interference from Washington, D.C., is precisely what President Trump is talking about," Eigel said. "So that's a powerful message. It's being talked about across the Republican Party. I'm optimistic that's going to be very successful in November."
Ashcroft said he thinks the Republican Party will leave the RNC as a united front ahead of the next few months leading up to Election Day.
"Republicans are coming out of their convention united on the need for the former president to once again be president Donald J. Trump And the Democrats are in disarray," Ashcroft said.
