RNC chair Michael Whatley has gaveled out of the Day 2 sessions.

The convention resumes Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. CT.

RNC co-chair and former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, recounted how she had to turn her children away from the television Saturday after a sniper opened fire at a Pennsylvania Trump rally. 

Lara, the wife of Donald’s son Eric Trump, said despite numerous threats made against the family in the past, “none of that prepares you as a daughter-in-law to watch in real-time someone try to kill a person you love.”  

“None of that prepares you as a mother to quickly reach for the remote and turn your young children away from the screen so that they're not witness to something that scars the memory of their grandpa for the rest of their lives,” she said.  

Lara Trump called the prayers and support the family has received since the shooting “overwhelming.”

She called her father-in-law “a lion” and “exactly what this country needs now.” 

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) honored the "hero" Corey Comperatore, who was killed in the shooting at Trump's rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

"He lost his life the way he lived it: a hero," Rubio said, as the delegates and attendees applauded.

"We are all descendants of ordinary people who achieved extraordinary things," he added, name-checking now-vice presidential nominee JD Vance, whose bestselling memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" tells the story of his rise from a hardscrabble childhood in Ohio to a US Marine and Yale Law School graduate.

Comperatore, 50, was a volunteer firefighter and father of two who shielded his family as gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at the Butler Farm Show grounds.

One of his shots struck Trump in the right ear, while more wounded two others.

Southern California mom of four Anne Fundner told RNC-goers Tuesday that Joe Biden deserves to be "voted out of office" for failing to do more to stop illicit fentanyl imports — which have killed more than 225,000 Americans since he took office.

Fundner, whose 15-year-old son died in February 2022 of an accidental fentanyl overdose, said "tens of thousands of American innocent children" died from the potent synthetic opioid since Biden entered the White House and "for that alone, they should be voted out of office."

"We need a president who will seal the border, aggressively prosecute drug dealers and stop communist China from poisoning our children. This is not a red or blue issue — this is a red, white and blue issue," she said.

Fundner said "Joe Biden does nothing" on the issue and "I hold Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the border czar — what a joke — and [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom and every Democrat who supports open borders responsible for the death of my son."

"We owe it to our children to elect a president who will win the war against fentanyl," she said.

Republicans have accused Biden, whose family had two major business dealings with Chinese government-linked entities, of being too soft on China on a variety of issues, including stopping exports of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, which are smuggled across the southern border — both through and between legal points of entry — and through the international shipping and mail systems.

Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in November reached an agreement that both sides said would crack down on the largely China-manufactured compound, which is increasingly mixed into non-opioid drugs, killing unwitting users — though Biden did not publicly press Xi on fentanyl.

As president, Trump claimed he convinced Xi to wage a crackdown featuring the death penalty for exporters.

An estimated 75,000 Americans died from fentanyl and related synthetic opioids in 2023, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data — after a record roughly 76,000 died in 2022, up from about 72,000 in 2021 during Biden's first year in office.

There were nearly 58,000 fentanyl-linked deaths in 2020 during Trump's final full year in office — up from about 36,000 in 2019 and about 31,000 in 2018.

MILWAUKEE — Step aside Rod Stewart.

Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson opened up about one of his earlier interactions with former President Donald Trump which came before their entrance into politics.

"Mr. Trump, Rod Stewart is here," Carson recalled someone telling Trump.

"I don't care. This is Ben Carson," Trump replied, per the former HUD Secretary.

Carson also delivered a characteristically tough attack against President Biden — by his standards at least.

"We have a president who if you can't say anything good, don't say anything at all," he jabbed.

MILWAUKEE — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders praised God for sparing her onetime boss former President Donald Trump from an assassin's sniper bullet over the weekend.

"God spared Trump from that assassin because God is not finished with him yet. And he most certainly is not finished with America yet either," she said.

She added that with God's guidance and Trump back in the White House, the US will show the world that it is a place "where freedom reigns and liberty will never die."

MILWAUKEE — Ooh, burn.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders ribbed President Biden over the hubbub about his cognitive state, recounting how as White House press secretary, she took her son to work one day.

"I got the chance to take my four-year-old son to bring your son to work day — much like Jill drags Joe to bring your husband to work day," she joked to laughter.

She also recounted how her young son "sidestepped the president, completely ignoring him in front of everyone, and ran straight into her arms."

"For my four-year-old son, the most powerful man in the world had nothing on my son," she went on, referring to her boss at the time — former President Donald Trump.

MILWAUKEE — Madeline Brame, a national victims right advocate whose son Sergeant Hason Correa was killed by criminals in 2018, spoke out about crime in the US and Trump's support of minorities.

Brame spoke about her previous support for the Democratic Party, but said the party "betrayed us" and "stabbed us in the back."

They "neglected the poor minority communities across America," she said, "but my eyes have been opened."

Brame earned thunderous applause from the audience.

The brother of a Maryland mother murdered by an illegal Salvadorian migrant said President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have still not offered his family their condolences.

"Open borders are often portrayed as compassionate and virtuous, but there is nothing compassionate about allowing violent criminals into our country and robbing children of their mother," said Michael Morin, the brother of Rachel Morin.

"My sister's death as preventable. The monster arrested for killing Rachel entered the US unlawfully after killing a woman in el Salvador," he told the convention. "Yet to this day we have not heard from Joe Biden or Kamala Harris."

"They never apologized, but when Rachel was killed President Trump called my family to offer condolences," he added.

"He wanted to meet with us. He cared. That is leadership."

Morin, 37, was brutally beaten to death by Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez and found on Bel Air, Md., hiking trail Aug 4, 2023.

MILWAUKEE — Anne Fundner, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning emotionally recounted her tragic loss in front of a packed audience at the Fiserv Forum.

"Our lives were shattered and our baby was dead... This was not an overdose — this was a poisoning," she said, describing everything being "ripped away."

"Joe Biden has done nothing," she said.

She called for proponents of "open border" policies to be voted out of office.

Chants of "Joe must go" quickly broke out during her speech. Fundner explained how fentanyl poisoning has been a mass-killing scourge in the country.

"This fight is not for me. My son is gone. This fight is for your children," she stressed. "We can change this for your children."

A few delegates are sporting faux ear bandages in solidarity with Trump.

"RNC’s new accessory," Washington Post reporter Meryl Kornfield posted on X, sharing images of two with a square, white bandage covering their right ear.

The 45th president entered the Fiserv Forum Tuesday night wearing the same ear covering.

MILWAUKEE — Sen. Tom Cotton juxtaposed the border situation under former President Donald Trump and President Biden.

He told the story of an Arkansas man who had just taken the oath of citizenship and Cotton described as thriving under Trump's presidency.

"Things were good with Donald Trump, but everything has gone to hell under Joe Biden," the man claimed, according to Cotton.

Cotton derided Biden for ushering in "open borders, amnesty [and] chaos."

"We'll choose Donald Trump and his record of security, prosperity, and stability," he declared.