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please welcome Donald J Trump we're back 7:30 CBS mornings and that on your screen was the moment here last night at the RNC when former president Donald Trump made his very first public appearance since Saturday's assassination attempt yesterday it also became official he was nominated to the Republican ticket and he named JD Vance a 39-year-old freshman senator from Ohio as his running mate so let's talk all about it CBS News Chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett joins me and CBS News Chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa they both join me now gentlemen good morning to you you're each close observers of former president Trump have been for years so Bob you first when he walked out of that tunnel what did you notice he was subdued he didn't say a word all evening this was a former president who had just survived an assassination attempt for him it was a deeply personal moment but also a political moment to see the Republican party convening here in Milwaukee gathering around him but as someone who has been covering Trump for a long time going back to 2010 as he just started to rise in the political field this is someone who is rarely emotional in his public settings he's a television star he is someone who's been on the public stage for more than a half century going back to his days in New York real estate rarely portrays anything he's feeling but you could see last night he was visibly moved by the moment to see those OV here in the arena behind us major you know there's always a convention bump but this is a different kind of a convention given what happened on Saturday will we see a change in the polls we are likely to we always have after conventions the question always is how long does it last and how big is the bump we'll find out about that but one thing worth pointing out about last night it is atypical for a wordless trump appearance to have gravity last night was a wordless trump appearance it had gravity precisely as the former president intended something that spoke volumes major was the pick of JD Vance as his vice president I spoke to a lot of folks who were in attendance delegates about Vance's Journey from critic to Ally A lot of them Shrugged they said who wasn't a Critic of Donald Trump back in 2016 2017 yes but JD Vance is a Critic in its own category I mean there were critics of former president Trump in 2016 few described his rhetoric as rhetorical herin heroin you described him as possibly America's Next Hitler JD Vance did both but what Trump admires about Vance is he's come around full circle and most importantly on the issue that for the future of any Trump presidency matters most what is your attitude about January 6th JD Vance wasn't in the capital on January 6 2021 he wasn't a US senator but he said had he been vice president which he's now in position to be he would have entertained as sitting vice president Mike Pence refused to alternate state states of electors yeah and sent that election to the House of Representatives something the US Constitution does not allow when States certify electoral votes that's the one slate of electors unless there is some very unusual legal Intervention which there was not after the 2020 election there had been almost 60 lawsuits the Trump campaign had lost all of them but JD Vance would have intervened as vice president and I don't believe there was any issue that was more important to this calculus and this decision to former president Trump Vance's position on that question and Bob that gets us into policy where is JD Vance relative to Donald Trump he is in lock step with former president Trump on the issues especially on foreign policy an aversion to having a US involvement in Ukraine's war with Russia you're also going to see him underscore economic populism yes he's the junior senator from Ohio but he's essentially going to live in Western Pennsylvania Michigan and Wisconsin according to my conversations with the Trump campaign they believe he can really play up his own roots in Southern Ohio talking about being a working American who's then succeeded at a high level in the ivy league ultimately in business now in politics and he can connect with those voters that Trump wants to make sure show up picking Senator Vans is about making sure the base comes out for the Republican party it's not necessarily about making an overture to traditional Republicans who find Senator Vance far too much to the right but at this time the Trump campaign is making a bet that if they get all the Trump people to come out in the industrial Midwest he'll he'll end up back in the White House imagine a campaign bus that doesn't do anything but go from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin through Michigan in a big oval that's I think what we can imagine lot of big 10 football games from JD Vance and the Trump campaign in that region and for those reasons yeah they used to call it the blue wall they're hoping that blue wall crumbles once again uh Bob major thank you very much appreciate it gentlemen