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Politics

RNC Live Coverage: Monday, Aug. 24

WUNC | By WUNC News

Published August 24, 2020 at 9:32 AM EDT

Follow live updates and analysis of Day 1 of the Republican National Convention, where the party is set to formally nominate President Trump as its presidential nominee.

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North Carolina already makes many kinds of discrimination in disaster relief illegal. Now, a lawmaker wants to make discriminating based on politics a felony.