Ashley MacLeay made an appearance during the roll call.

The Republican National Convention was once planned for Charlotte and then Jacksonville. In the end, the biggest speeches will come from the White House and Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

The display would likely happen after Trump’s acceptance speech, though it hasn’t yet been approved.

Trump has said he wants to accept the Republican nomination from the White House’s South Lawn, but Republicans and Democrats have pushed back on the idea and questioned its legality.

Good luck to you!

A D.C. delegate also tried to include support of same sex marriage in the platform, but the measure failed.

D.C. might feel more at home with the Democratic Party, but being faithful Democrats has its price: the D.C. delegation to the DNC got some of the worst seats in the house.

We have to admit, when we first started watching this C-SPAN video of RNC Chairman and D.C. native Michael Steele talking to students at H.D. Woodson Senior High School, we were ready to scoff. Really Michael Steele, we wondered, do you actually want to tell students in DCPS, where only one out of ten students ever graduate from college, that while at Johns Hopkins, “I partied my behind off,” and “I heard there were classes”…

We’re not sure what’s more amazing, that the Republican National Committee has chosen a black man as its leader, or that Michael Steele actually got elected to something. Chris Cillizza has the details of the many, many ballots it took before Steele was handed the prize today at the Capital Hilton here in Washington. Steele, a D.C. native, was previously the chairman of the Maryland Republican Party, the GOP nominee in the Maryland Senate race…

Last week we brought you extensive coverage of the D.C. delegation’s activities at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Now that the Republican National Convention is underway in St. Paul, can you expect the same kind of reporting? No, but it’s not for lack of trying. DCist submitted a request to be credentialed for the RNC several months ago. On July 7, we received a reply from the RNC Special Press Credentials Office with the…