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Today's theme at the Republican national convention will be Make America Strong Once Again," and many of the speeches are expected to focus on foreign policy.

Each one of these has a theme, like last night was bend the knee and grovel' apparently," Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, said at a Democratic press conference in Milwaukee. And today is celebrate Russia day,' I guess."