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2024: Ten big moments when politics and culture collided

In music, sports, film, and entertainment, the art of politics and the politics of art overlapped as never before this year.

A Trump Vance campaign sign sits at the Cobb County Republican Party's booth at the Pigs and Peaches Country Festival in Kennesaw, Georgia, on Aug. 17, 2024.
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Trump’s ground-game gamble

Less than six weeks before Election Day, Donald Trump is gambling on an unconventional (and untested) strategy to target potential voters.

Trump, Biden & the US election: What could be next?
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

Trump, Biden & the US election: What could be next?

On GZERO World, Ian Bremmer reflects on this pivotal week in US politics along with media journalist and former CNN show host Brian Stelter and Vanderbilt political historian Nicole Hemmer. They dig into the political divisions that led to this moment of horrific political violence.

Former President Trump stares into the crowd at the RNC and GZERO World with ian bremmer - the podcast
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast

Trump's close call and the RNC: Brian Stelter and Nicole Hemmer weigh in on a historic week in US politics

Listen: In the latest episode of the GZERO World Podcast, Ian Bremmer reflects on this pivotal week in US politics and welcomes back media journalist and former CNN show host Brian Stelter on the show alongside Vanderbilt political historian Nicole Hemmer. Former President Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt, picked his VP candidate, presided over a united GOP at the Republican Convention, and all while a Democratic Party in disarray continued to clamor for Biden to step aside.

RNC shows how Trump has transformed GOP
US Politics In 60 Seconds

RNC shows how Trump has transformed GOP

What we're watching in US Politics this week: How the just-concluded RNC underscored Trump's firm grip on the GOP. According to Jon Lieber, the former president has steered the party away from its traditional establishment roots towards a more nationalist and populist stance. "If you were knocked out in 1992 and just woke up, you probably wouldn't recognize this Republican Party," he adds.

​Donanld Trump at the RNC
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RNC wrap-up: Trump's speech and the GOP's evolving identity

On the fourth and final night of the RNC, Donald Trump took to the stage for the first time since he was nearly assassinated at a campaign rally. He began his speech with a detailed, dramatic retelling of the shooting, in which he was saved by God, in the style of a grandfather telling their grandchild a war story at bedtime.

JD Vance
Analysis

Strongman politics and working-class appeal: GOP’s foreign policy

On the third day of the Republican National Convention, themed “Make America Strong Once Again,” the GOP laid out their vision for the world, outlining what US foreign policy could look like under Donald Trump and JD Vance.

Trump's pick for VP: JD Vance
US Politics In 60 Seconds

Trump's pick for VP: JD Vance

Ohio senator JD Vance went from a prominent Trump critic to his 2024 running mate. Jon Lieber explains why Vance is going to be a lightning rod for controversy and the complement to Trump’s populist energy.

Sen. JD Vance addresses the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2024.
Analysis

Who is JD Vance, Trump’s VP pick?

Initially a fierce critic of Trump, Vance changed his views by the time he ran for Senate in 2022. Now he broadly supports Trump’s populist challenge to the traditional bipartisan establishment and has said Trump’s legally disproven claims of fraud in the 2020 election had political merit.

Will the Trump attack shift GOP approach at the RNC?
US Politics In 60 Seconds

Will the Trump attack shift GOP approach at the RNC?

What we're watching in US Politics this week: After a wild weekend marked by the first assassination attempt in over 40 years against Donald Trump, the former president said he'll take a more moderate and unifying tone at this week's Republican National Convention. Jon Lieber weighs in on whether the attempt on Trump's life will change the GOP's approach at the RNC.