Simon Marks: FSN Broadcaster on the confirmation of JD Vance as Donald Trump's running mate

Donald Trump has named Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his Vice Presidential running mate. 

Simon Marks of independent broadcaster FSN is at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where he told Mike Hosking there had been several tell-tale signs JD Vance was going to be Trump's pick for VP. 

He says Vance received Secret Service protection on Sunday, and today he was reportedly provided with a motorcade to make his way to the convention centre. 

Vance was widely believed to be Trump's pick, Marks saying that he was a critic of Trump in the 2016 election cycle, but has since embraced Trump's Make America Great Again movement.

Trump is also being formally confirmed as the Republican presidential candidate at the convention, just two days after surviving a deadly assassination attempt. 

Meanwhile, he's also had a new legal victory with a US judge dismissing one of his criminal cases over allegedly mishandling of classified documents. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So for reasons they could never have imagined, this week's
Republican National Convention has the world watching. Of course, this
is how it all unfolds, literally as we speak. The
delegates go to the conference floor and they tell the
conference just who they're voting for. This is Jessica Patterson
of California, with the largest delegation in the nation. Madam
Secretary the Great State of California proudly casts all of

(00:20):
its one hundred and sixty nine.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Votes for President Donald Trump, and they go around.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
The floor until he gets twelve hundred and fifteen, which
is the number he needs to secure the nomination the President.
Sheef correspondent for Features Story News FSN, Simon Max is
at that convention. End is with us. Good morning and.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Good afternoon from Milwaukee.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
The comments we've heard from the former President Trump about
a new speech being written in a chance to unite
the country, if not the entire world. How much of
that do we believe, as the revived that that is
possible at the convention?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, it certainly appears to be a plan that has
been widely shared with prominent supporters of former President Donald Trump.
I was talking a bit earlier today to sen usor
Ron Johnson, of which Scott of course, Milwaukee is in Wisconsin.
He's the one of the two senators from the state
where this convention is taking place, and he was absolutely certain,
he's a very close ally of Donald Trump, that we're

(01:11):
going to hear a new tone, a call for unity
in the speech that Donald Trump will be making on
Thursday night here in which he will formally accept the
Republican Party's presidential nomination and urging for Americans to try
and find a way of coming together. And indeed, friends
and associates of Donald Trump who have seen him over

(01:31):
the weekend since the attempted assassination that took place at
the rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, describe him as a
changed man, with some suggesting that he had even reacted
spiritually to the attempted assassination and to his survival. He
told one reporter with the Washington Examiner when he arrived

(01:53):
here in Milwaukee that I should be dead. So there
is certainly expectation that this will be a very different
Donald Trump than the one that we have obviously all
become used to seeing. And obviously many observers here are
wondering how long that new tone might be adopted, or

(02:15):
to what extent it's going to be one speech, and
then he'll revert to type.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
And then, of course you've got the convention itself that theme.
If it's possible, Can they contain all the people within
the Republican Party who, uner other circumstances might have been
a little freer in the language prior to the Zevite.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, I mean, I think that the sense coming into Milwaukee,
and you know, delegates have been streaming into this city
in the hours since the assassination attempt, is that it's
absolutely uniting the party around Donald Trump and cementing his
position at its helm in a way that Trump and
is in a circle could only have dreamt of six

(02:52):
months ago. I mean, even we've heard in the last
few hours a speaking invitation has been given to Nicky Hayley,
who of course was Trump's rival in the primaries. She
was only invited to attend this convention on Saturday, and
now they're finding space for her in these speeches on
Tuesday night. So this is a party absolutely uniting around

(03:18):
former President Donald Trump at the very point of course
that Democrats are many of them in the House of Representatives,
and more broadly, prominent supporters of the Democratic Party like
George Clooney saying to President Joe Biden, please drop out
of the race. So an astonishing and very unexpected contrast
that we're going to see.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Here and while we're getting reports, while we got you
here Simon Bergham and Ruby urb and told they are
not vps. Do we have any further information?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, we know now the announcement is coming here this
afternoon Milwaukee time, and we increasingly think that the vice
presidential candidate will be Senator JD. Vance of Ohio. There
were some telltale signs over the weekend. He received Secret
Service protection. On Sunday today there were reports that he

(04:07):
was afforded a motorcade to make his way to the
convention center. The viceer of arena here in Milwaukee. JD.
Vance has been on a bit of a journey. I mean,
he was a pretty ferocious critic of Donald Trump back
in the twenty sixteen cycle, but since then he has
absolutely embraced Donald Trump's make America Greater gain movement, and

(04:28):
prominent Republicans that you talk to will say, look, this
appointment is not just about finding a running mate. This
is about anointing a successor to Donald Trump. So that's
a big moment that's coming up here in a few
hours time.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Indeed, Simon, just to interrupt, I apologize, Sir Simon Marx
of if scene will lead him to it, because the
announcement's just been made that it is JD Vance after
and this is Trump on social truth social so the
shares will go up again. After lengthy deliberation and thought
and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I've decided
that the person best suited to assume the position of
Vice President of the United States is Senator Jdevance of

(05:02):
the great State of Ohio. The Governor of Ohio, Mike
Dewines on the floor.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
We're very happy. This is a great day for Ohio.
Ohio truly is the heart of it all, as we say,
and now we have the vice presidential candidate, and we
help the next vice president of the United States and
JD Events.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
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