When Donald Trump gave his acceptance speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, his campaign was feeling confident. President Joe Biden was still drawing widespread criticism for his performance during a debate with Trump, and his poll numbers weren’t looking good. And the fact that Trump appeared on stage at the convention only two days after surviving an assassination attempt at a rally in Western Pennsylvania, many right-wing pundits argued, made him look powerful and confident. But that convention was followed by a major political bombshell: Biden dropped out of the r…