A White House press secretary under Mr. Trump began the Republican attacks on Trump, while Ms. Navarro, the Republican political commentator, is serving as a host for the evening.
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Ana Navarro, a longtime critic of Donald J. Trump.
The second night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday features a number of Republicans who have little love for their own party’s nominee.
The prime-time segment of the evening is being hosted by Ana Navarro, a co-host of ABC’s “The View” and a longtime Republican critic of former President Donald J. Trump, and is set to include remarks from John Giles, the Republican mayor of Mesa, Ariz.
They will follow Republicans including Stephanie Grisham, who was the White House press secretary under Mr. Trump from 2019 to 2020, and Kyle Sweetser, an Alabama resident who said he had voted for Mr. Trump twice but came to believe that the former president’s agenda was to “line his own pockets.”
Ms. Grisham drew on her past proximity to Mr. Trump to make a case against him.
“Behind closed doors, Trump mocks his supporters — he calls them ‘basement dwellers,’ ” Ms. Grisham told the convention, recalling the former president raging when cameras did not follow him during a hospital visit.
“He has no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth,” Ms. Grisham added. “He used to tell me: ‘It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie. Say it enough, and people will believe you.’”
The Republican broadsides are only just beginning. Ms. Navarro is scheduled to take the stage at 9 p.m. Eastern.
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