WHETHER THEY'VE GOT A SENSE OF HUMOR WILL SEE A LITTLE BIT LATER ON.

BUT FIRST, DONALD TRUMP IS SET TO FORMALLY ACCEPT HIS 3RD GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.

TONIGHT.

TRUMP HAS REPORTEDLY R-WIS REWRITTEN TONIGHT.

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH IN THE WAKE OF SATURDAY'S ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.

IT COMES AMID CALLS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO TONE DOWN DIVISIVE POLITICAL RHETORIC AND CALLED FOR UNITY.

JOINING US NOW WITH MORE ON TRUMP'S MESSAGING TONIGHT, ARE SANTANA JACKSON, A POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND HOST OF THE SANTA JACKSON RADIO SHOW.

AND ERIK NISBET, PROFESSOR POLICY ANALYSIS AND COMMUNICATION AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.

WELCOME BACK.

ERIC WILKINSON THANKS FOR JOINING US.

SO YOU DON'T WANT TO START WITH YOU, PLEASE BRIEFLY, WHAT DO YOU THINK WE CAN EXPECT TO HEAR FROM FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP TONIGHT?

YOU KNOW, I'M REALLY LOOKING AT A MAN WHO TRUSTS HIS OWN COUNSEL.

I DON'T EXPECT MEN LIKE HIM TO REALLY CHANGE UP MIDSTREAM.

HE MIGHT CHANGE HIS TONE A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE HE APPEARS AT LEAST VISIBLY TO BE CONTEMPLATIVE IN THE WAKE OF AN ASSASSINATION.

YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE A BULLET WHIZZED BY YOUR YEAR, YOU COULD BE LIFE CHANGING.

BUT IT CAN.

IT CAN ALSO MAKE YOU WHO WILL CLOSELY TO WHAT YOU BELIEVE.

AND SO I DON'T REALLY EXPECT THE DIFFERENT DONALD TRUMP.

I EXPECT MAYBE SOMEONE WHO IS.

MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE THOUGHTFUL.

I HOPE THAT HE WILL USE THE TREMENDOUS CHARISMA THAT HE HAS TO HEAL THE NATION UNITY, OK, I WANT I DON'T WANT UNIFORMITY.

THAT UNITY, SOMEONE WHO WILL USE HIS POWER TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.

HOPE THAT HE DOES ERIC, WE ALSO KNOW HE'S SLATED TO SPEAK FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF NOW.

THAT COULD JUST BE SOME PADDING TIME FOR ALL THE APPLAUSE THEY'RE EXPECTING.

BUT WHAT IS IT THAT HE NEEDS TO SAY?

THAT'S GOING TO TAKE AN HOUR AND HALF?

THAT'S A GOOD IT MIGHT BE PIVOT.

HE'S GOING.

I THINK HE'S TRYING TO REINTRODUCE HIMSELF TO AMERICAN PEOPLE.

BEEN THE PERSONAL STORIES.

HIS GRANDDAUGHTER, HIS CHILDREN.

THEY'RE TRYING SOFTEN HIS IMAGE RIGHT?

THEIR CENTRAL MESSAGE, I THINK OF CONVENTION HAS BEEN.

PARITY AND PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH.

AND THAT IS BASICALLY WHAT THAT COMMUNITY, THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT TO COMMUNICATE, THAT HE IS STRONG.

THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE SERVED THE CO BRANDI TONIGHT OF BASICALLY THE HEAD OF THE UFC, RIGHT AND HOKE HOGAN, A WRESTLER.

SO, YOU KNOW, HE IS A STRONG MAN.

HE'S HEALTHY.

YOU MIGHT.

YES, MODERATE HIS TONE, RIGHT?

I DON'T THINK THE SUBSTANCE IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT TO SARA LEE.

BUT HE IS AND TRYING SORT OF MOVE PAST EVENTS OF JANUARY 6 AND SAY THAT I AM A CHANGED MAN.

I AM HERE.

I AM STRONG.

PEACE AND PROSPERITY IS WITH YOU HE'S MOVING TO CANCER TERRITORY.

NGUYEN SPEAKS FOR 90 SPEAKS FOR 90 MINUTES.

YEAH.

SENT TO THAT.

THIS IS ALSO THIS IS HIS 3RD NOMINATION.

HOW IS THIS TRUMP DIFFERENT FROM THE CANDIDATE TRUMP WE SAW IN 2016?

WELL, HE IS NOT THE SAME.

AND IN 2016 2016, HE WAS A TELEVISION STAR.

HE WAS A MOBILE.

HE HAS HAD HIS HANDS ON THE NUCLEAR CODES.

HE IS A DIFFERENT PERSON.

YOU CANNOT HAVE THAT KIND OF EXPERIENCE AND BE THE SAME GUY.

YOU KNOW, WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY TO YOU, OH, MY THIS IS NOT CHANGE.

WELL, THEN YOU'VE NOT GROWN.

AND THAT'S NOT A VERY GOOD THING.

SO I HOPE THAT HE HAS GROWN.

I HOPE THAT HE HAS ENLARGED.

I HOPE THAT HE WILL BE THE DONALD TRUMP THAT MAYBE PEOPLE HAVE KNOWN IN THE PAST.

SOMEONE WHO WAS INCLUSIVE.

IF YOU TALK TO MIKE TYSON, HE'S YOU'LL SEE YOU'LL HEAR INCLUSIVENESS.

WHEN YOU TALK TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE, YOU HEAR SOMEONE WHO BROKE THE BARRIERS AT COUNTRY CLUB AND MADE SURE THAT YOU HAD A BLACK, ANY JEWISH PERSON ADMITTED.

I HOPE THAT WE WILL GET THAT GUY AS OPPOSED TO SOMEONE WHO IS DIMINISHING.

PEOPLE HOPE THAT HE WILL LIFT PEOPLE UP.

HIS BOOK IS THAT GOING TO PLAY TO THE BASE.

THAT'S NOT GOING TO PLAY THE BASS.

YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN INTERESTING.

I THINK THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO TONED DOWN A LITTLE SEEN A LITTLE MORE MODERATE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

YOU KNOW THE WORD ABORTION HAS NOT BEEN MENTIONED LIKE ONCE AND YET INSTEAD OF IT COMING FROM DONALD TRUMP.

THEY'RE HAVING OTHER PEOPLE, SARAH TELEGRAPH, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE NOT A LITTLE MORE MODERATE, BUT WE'RE STILL WITH THE BASE.

THAT'S WHERE LIKE FRANKLIN GRAHAM, FROM TERMS OF THE CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS IS INTRODUCING HIM AND OTHERS.

TUCKER CARLSON YOU KNOW, RIGHT?

I'M SORT OF THE WHITE NATIONALIST SIDE OF THE OF THE PARTY.

SO THAT IS STILL THERE THAT HAS NOT GONE AWAY.

IT'S MORE THAT TONE.

IT MAY BE THAT ASSOCIATION WITH TRUMP.

THEY'RE TRYING TO THEY DEFINITELY GOT SORRY, DO I WANT TO MANDATE AND YOU'RE JUST A SECOND, BUT IT DEFINITELY GOT A FUN.

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