J.D. Vance introduced himself by throwing down the age card.
Donald Trump Jr. got some things off his chest.
And for the second night in a row, there was lots of bristling talk on immigration, which is the tip of the MAGA spear and former President Trump’s favorite political cudgel.
Times columnists Anita Chabria and Mark Z. Barabak were in Milwaukee and laid off the beer and cheese curds so they could offer you their clear-eyed assessment of Day 3 of the Republican National Convention.
Barabak: So the big moment Wednesday night was Vance’s formal acceptance of the vice presidential nomination and his me-note address to the nation.
Lots of buzz about the blue dress his wife, Usha, wore in introducing hubby.
Usha Chilukuri Vance, wearing a much-discussed blue dress, introduced her husband at the Republican National Convention.
(Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)
What did you think of Vance’s speech and do you suppose the missus, who quit her practice at a lefty San Francisco law firm immediately after Trump made Vance his running mate, was sending some kind of secret message?
Chabria: I’ll start with the dress. I’m in a hotel with lots of convention attendees milling in the lobby. Every day I’ve heard men and women alike both discussing whether it’s OK to wear blue instead of red. I’ll repeat what a California lady in the coffee line said: There’s nothing wrong with red, white or blue.
To be real, I am guessing her dress was chosen by others or at least approved. So, no, she’s not signaling for help.
But I am following Mr. Vance’s speech: That long, long, meandering address that wound up in his family’s burial plot multiple times. For those of you who missed it, he tried to do a callback about how many generations of his family were buried in the same spot on a mountain in eastern Kentucky.
It was, I think, supposed to show what an aw-shucks guy he really is, and how he’s not actually a…