As RNC Packs Up, Milwaukee Locals Reflect on Convention, Calls for Unity

Friendly faces noted amid political divide as the city hosted the GOP convention.

Workers disassemble the words "TRUMP 2024" outside the Fiserv Forum on July 19, 2024, the day after the Republican National Convention concluded. Nathan Worcester/The Epoch Times

MILWAUKEE—The vast spaces of the Baird Center were emptying out. The delegates, vendors, reporters, and other attendees of the 2024 Republican National Convention had vanished. The spectacle, Republicans’ first since 2016, was over, the throng long gone.

On the afternoon of July 19, men and women who had worked intensely over the previous several days, were taking down the remaining media booths.