The sunny vibe is especially unusual because the now-official party nominee was shot in the ear on Saturday, coming literally within an inch of his life. What could explain the way delegates and other attendees so quickly moved beyond that trauma and pivoted to joy?
Republicans are feeling invincible right now. Trump was already leading the election, and then Joe Biden's catastrophic debate performance kicked off an ongoing, multiweek spectacle of the Democratic Party destroying itself in the broad light of day.
"There's almost a providence about it," Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall told me and another reporter. Republicans are riding a euphoria they have never quite experienced during Trump's time in politics.
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