MICHAEL OSTERHOLM, AND LOOK BACK AT THE 1934 MINNEAPOLIS TRUCKER STRIKE.

>> Cathy: WE'RE GOING TO START ONIGHT WITH THE NATIONAL POLITICAL NEWS.

THE WEEK BEGAN WITH AN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION ON DONALD TRUMP IN PENNSYLVANIA.

IT ENDS WITH PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IN ISOLATION WITH COVID.

IN BETWEEN TRUMP ACCEPTED HIS NOMINATION AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE.

MARY LAHAMMER PICKS UM THE STORY THERE WITH A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE.

[ ROCK MUSIC ] >> WISCONSIN IS WHERE REPUBLICANS CONVENED FOR THEIR CONVENTION AS THEY FOCUS ON UPPER MIDWEST STATES LIKE MINNESOTA.

♪♪ >> I AM RUNNING TO BE PRESIDENT FOR ALL OF AMERICA, NOT HALF OF AMERICA.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] BECAUSE THERE IS NO VICTORY IN WINNING FOR HALF OF AMERICA.

SO TONIGHT WITH FAITH AND DEVOTION, I PROUDLY ACCEPT YOUR NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

>> THE NEW VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WAS SELECTED IN PART FOR HIS APPEAL FOR THE REGION.

>> TO THE PEOPLE IN MIDDLETOWN, OHIO AND ALL THE FORGOTTEN COMMUNITIES IN MICHIGAN, WISCONSIN, PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO AND EVERY CORNER OF OUR NATION I PROMISE YOU THIS, I WILL BE A VICE PRESIDENT WHO NEVER FORGETS WHERE HE CAME FROM.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> THIS IDEA OF J.D.

VANCE, THE PERFECT FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER CREATED BY THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION.

GOOD THING WITH REPUBLICANS THEY DON'T HAVE MUCH DIVISION WITHIN THEIR PARTY.

THEY BEND THEIR KNEE AND GROVEL TO SOMEONE WHO TOLD US THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN, SOMEONE WHO TOLD OF OVERTURNED ROE V. WADE, SOMETHING ON WHO US HE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING BOUT NATO.

>> DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR TIM WALZ TRAVELED ACROSS THE BORDER TO COUNTER THE RNC AND PROJECT 2025 ON BEHALF OF THE BIDEN/HARRIS TICKET.

>> WE GOT AN OPPORTUNITY IN AMERICA NOT TOO LONG IN IT A BINARY CHOICE BETWEEN SOMEONE WHO CARES DEEPLY ABOUT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, POLICIES THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE VERSUS SOMEONE WHO MADE IT VERY CLEAR, TRUMP IS FOR TRUMP.

>> WALZ SPECIFICALLY WENT AFTER REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.

>> GOVERNORS ARE ONE OF THE BEST MESSENGERS, WHETHER IT'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, IT'S A MAN IT'S TIME TO SHUT THE HELL UP AT TIMES IN THESE SPACES AND STEP BACK.

>> IN WISCONSIN MINNESOTA COOS TOM EMMER GOT TO THE STAGE AND GAVE A FIERY ADDRESS REMINISCENT OF HIS TIME IN THE STATE HOUSE.

>> MINNESOTANS CAN'T AFFORD FOUR MORE YEARS OF JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS.

WHICH IS WHY I'M CONFIDENT WE WILL MAKE HISTORY THIS NOVEMBER WHEN WE TURN MINNESOTA RED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS!

>> THE REPUBLICAN IN U.S. HOUSE LEADERSHIP NOTED THE ACIAL RECKONING THAT BEGAN IN MINNEAPOLIS WHEN TRUMP WAS PRESIDENT.

>> THE DEMOCRATS' DISASTROUS RECORD ON CRIME, TRADE AND REGULATION HAS RUINED THE LIVES OF COUNTLESS MINNESOTANS.

WHEN MINNEAPOLIS WAS IN FLAMES AND BUSINESSES ARE IN RUINS, KAMALA HARRIS ENCOURAGED AND ENABLED THE CRIMINALS AND THE RIOTERS.

DONALD TRUMP STANDS WITH THE PEOPLE AND THE POLICE, OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN BLUE, NOT WITH THE CRIMINALS AND THE RIOTERS.

GLEAN THOUGH TRUMP ONCE STOPPED EMMER FROM MOVING UP TO HOUSE SPEAKER REPUBLICANS FROM MINNESOTA AT THE NATIONAL CONVENTION FELL IN LINE WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT.

>> THE BATTLEGROUND STATE OF MINNESOTA WHICH WILL ELECT A REPUBLICAN FOR PRESIDENT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SINCE 1972 THIS YEAR, MINNESOTA.

THE FIRST STATE TO FIGHT TO PRESERVE OUR NATION IN 1861, TODAY TO PRESERVE OUR NATION AGAIN, WE MINNESOTANS PROUDLY PLEDGE ALL 39 OF OUR DELEGATE VOTES FOR OUR NEXT PRESIDENT, DONALD J. TRUMP.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> WE WILL VERY QUICKLY MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, WISCONSIN, GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.