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RNC 2024 Day 2 updates: Rubio urges fighting 'with our voices and our votes'
The theme of Tuesday's session is "Make America Safe Again."
The second day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee is in full swing Tuesday evening with appearances from some of former President Donald Trump's former rivals: former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy -- all calling for Republican Party unity.
Trump, with a bandage on his ear, made an appearance again Tuesday evening -- just days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt at one of his rallies in Pennsylvania over the weekend.
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Democratic Party 'stabbed us in the back,' crime victim's mother says
Madeline Brame, one of the people billed by the RNC as an "everyday American," spoke about the murder of her son in an impassioned speech.
Her son, Hason Correa, was stabbed to death in New York City in 2018 at the age of 35 after serving in the military.
One of the people charged in his murder was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, while two accepted plea deals. Brame called the pleas an "injustice" that was "devastating for me and my family."
"We need justice for victims and we need accountability for prosecutors who fail in their duty," Brame said. "Soft-on-crime prosecutors like Alvin Bragg in New York, Kim Foxx in Chicago and George Gascón in Los Angeles have turned our great country and city into war zones."
She said the Democratic Party "stabbed us in the back."
"Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who claimed to represent us, have abandoned us," she said. "They neglected the poor minority communities across America."
Fact check: Drug overdose deaths
The Trump administration had limited success in reducing the estimated number of drug overdose deaths, mostly due to fentanyl and other opioids, from 2017 to 2018 from 70,237 to 67,367 according to data from the CDC. However, that progress was reversed in 2019 growing to 70,630 and then surged during the pandemic in Trump’s final year to 91,799>).
As the pandemic raged, that ugly trend continued during the Biden administration with overdose deaths climbing to 106,699 in 2021 and peaking in 2022 at 111,027 before falling slightly in 2023 to 107,543, according to CDC data.
'USA' chants boom during Sarah Huckabee Sanders' speech
The energy level was high for the Arkansas governor's address.
The crowd was largely on its feet, and chants of "Trump, Trump, Trump" and "USA" boomed through the convention center during Sarah Huckabee Sanders' speech.
The noise was thunderous when she said "not even an assassin's bullet could stop" Trump.
Trump was seen with a big grin as she spoke.
-ABC News' Alexandra Hutzler
'Not even an assassin's bullet could stop him': Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Arkansas governor and Trump's former press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the crowd that she had not been prouder to stand with the former president.
"Not even an assassin's bullet could stop him. God almighty intervened because America is one nation, under God and he is certainly not finished with President Trump," she said.
Ahead of her speech, aides to the governor told ABC News that this was going to be an emotional speech by the first-time governor and long-time defender of Trump.
Sanders criticized President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for their policies on the economy and crime.
She claimed that the left "did not care about empowering women," and repeated a line said by others that they "can't even tell you what a woman is."
She again touted how Trump was resilient even after the assassination attempt over the weekend.
"We can't get him back in the White House fast enough," she said, prompting the crowd to cheer.
-ABC News' John Santucci