Overnight coverage stayed on Trump's opening-night pledge of $5,000 to every adult if Republicans hold Congress, shifting from rally recaps to scrutiny over cost, legality and need for congressional approval, with Republican skepticism and bipartisan pushback noted.
Through midday the Iran war intruded, with reports of Iranian strikes damaging U.S. jets in Jordan, which Trump denied, Houthi seizure of a Red Sea port and oil climbing past $100 to $107, alongside a U.S. naval buildup near Hormuz. Separately the Supreme Court again blocked Missouri's Trump-backed congressional map, and an appeals court ruled against new mail-voting rules.
Attention then turned to the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk's assassination marked by vigils, statues and tributes, before Dallas took over again for night two of the midterm convention, where Cruz, RFK Jr. and others spoke ahead of Vance — greeted with '48' chants as heir apparent — and a Trump finale.