MILWAUKEE — The Republican party’s ticket is officially locked in, as delegates from across the country head home from four days and four nights at this week’s national convention in Milwaukee.
If you had to sum up the final night in a single word, it would be “unbelievable.” That’s what Wisconsin’s delegates told Spectrum News 1. Obviously, it was extra special, having the major political event in Milwaukee, but now that it’s all over, the real work begins.
“We’re going to have this country back on track starting on January 20,” Terrence Wall of Middleton said after former President Donald Trump’s primetime speech Thursday night.
“This right here, all of the balloons, the celebration, the whole family on stage,” Wall added when asked about his favorite part of the week.
From host state shoutouts, which included a reference to the Green Bay Packers, to a message focused on unifying the party, delegates feel like there was something from Trump’s remarks that should have appealed to Wisconsinites.
“The fact that he did not, he did not beat up on Biden. Biden is one man. He’s not the person we’re working against. It's the policies that we want to see changed,” Barbara Bittner from Chilton explained.
As the campaign intensifies, delegates hope they can turn convention energy into effort.
“We have to take all this energy and excitement and actually, you know take it and work hard to reach voters in all of our communities, and I think we’ve got a lot of, the right people and the right amount of energy and passion to do it,” Stephanie Soucek of Sturgeon Bay said.
For now, whether their first or fifth time serving, delegates are going to take at least the weekend to let everything soak in.
“Fifth was the best,” Patty Reiman of Whitefish Bay said. “The president even said how wonderful this is. Everybody that got up there said Milwaukee is so much fun.”