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Drawing The RNC, Day Three

Liza Donnelly
5 min readJul 18, 2024

It was a fact check doozy.”

The evening yesterday began with the news that President Biden tested positive today for Covid and will remain in Delaware for a while. Also news emerged that Democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer met with Biden to discuss their concern for losing the Senate if Biden continues as the nominee. Representative Adam Schiff also yesterday publicly called for Biden to step down. Nancy Pelosi is advising Biden on the reality of the poll numbers. The Democrats are meeting this week to discuss whether or not they will do a virutal roll call to nominate Biden soon, or not. Aids say Biden is more open to hearing about the difficulties of his candidacy in beating Trump and in keeping the Senate.

At the RNC last night, it was a long string of speakers; the theme was “Make America Strong Again.” At the end of the evening, CNN asked their fact checker to weigh in, and he said, “It was a fact check doozy.”

The first person I drew was the girlfriend of Don Trump Jr, Kimberly Guilfoyle:

My drawing of her doesn’t show it, but she got really loud and boisterous at the end of her speech. Because of what I perceive as a fair amount of plastic surgery, she was hard to draw.

The evening took on an international tone, of course because of the theme. First it was the Middle…

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