House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., spoke tonight about the recent assassination attempt against Trump and recounted a politically motivated shooting in 2017 in which Scalise was a victim.

"Not many of you know that while I was fighting for my life, Donald Trump was one of the first to come console my family at the hospital," Scalise told the crowd. "That is the type of leader he is — courageous under fire, compassionate towards others.”

Charles Moran, president of Log Cabin Republicans, said in an interview tonight that the softening of the Republican platform’s language about same-sex marriage is “one of the most important things that’s happened in the Republican Party history.”

“It shows that this new Republican Party led by Donald Trump has put his DNA into the party. This platform is welcoming. It’s inclusive. This is the most radical and revolutionary way to make the Republican Party competitive,” Moran told NBC News' Tom Llamas.

Moran, whose organization is one of the largest GOP groups dedicated to representing LGBTQ conservatives, noted that the platform shift does not extend to transgender rights.

"Don’t confuse the commitment to parental rights and traditional biological gender issues as being something as homophobic,” he said. “We will keep men out of women’s sports, ban taxpayer funding for sex-change surgeries and stop taxpayer-funded schools from promoting gender transition, reverse Biden’s radical rewrite of Title IX Education Regulations and restore protections for women and girls.”

Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., said in his convention speech that Americans need to come together after the attempted assassination of Trump over the weekend.

"After the tragic shooting last Saturday, we need to come together — all of us," said Van Drew, a former Democrat who switched parties while he was in Congress.

"Republicans, Democrats and independents," he said. "We need to be the shining city on the hill, a nation that empowers us to do extraordinary things."

The drop in energy in the room between Virginia Senate candidate Hung Cao and Sen. Rick Scott of Florida was really striking. It's like sitting on the remote and turning to PBS in the middle of a WWE match.

In his speech, Cao grew animated, banging the podium at one point.

Shortly afterward, Scott told a story about a dream, which he dubbed “the ghost of Biden future,” except “it wasn’t a dream, it was a nightmare.”

Scott described what he expected from a second Biden term, throwing out ideas about $10-per-gallon gas, groceries so expensive only “rich people” could buy them and Democrats' doing “nothing to protect Israel from terrorists or to stop China from invading Taiwan.”

Hung Cao, who's aiming to unseat Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine in Virginia, attacked undocumented immigrants in his remarks tonight.

"Under Joe Biden, millions of illegal aliens flood our borders. They fly Hamas flags ... on our campuses and they shout 'Death to America,'" he said. "Let me be very clear to everyone who comes here: Don't ask for the American dream if you're not willing to obey the American laws and embrace the American culture."

The remark drew loud applause from the convention floor and spurred chants of "USA! USA! USA!"

Montana Republican Senate nominee Tim Sheehy made fun of people introducing themselves with their preferred pronouns as he took to the stage tonight.

"Hey, everybody, my name is Tim Sheehy. Those are also my pronouns," he said to cheers from the crowd (his name is pronounced "Shee-hee").

"I can promise you, going to elementary school with that name in the ’80s was not fun. That was a joke, but it also shows the lunacy we are living with in Joe Biden and Jon Tester's America," he added, referring to the Democratic senator he's running against in the fall.

Sheehy, a military veteran, went on to criticize Biden's withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan and criticized Tester for driving a Prius ("Priuses don't work in Montana"). Tester's Prius has been a target for Republicans in the past, and Tester called Republicans "a bunch of jack-----" for the attack this year, noting he has other cars, including trucks, per HuffPost.

Sheehy closed his speech as he started, with red meat: "What Montanans think is common sense is pretty simple. It's not complicated. They want a secure border, safe streets, cheap gas, cops are good, criminals are bad, boys are boys, girls are girls."

Sam Brown, the Republican Senate nominee from Nevada, railed against, "Jacky and Joe" in his speech, referencing Biden and Nevada Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen.

Brown also echoed Trump's proposal to eliminate taxes on tips, a proposal particularly salient in Nevada, home to the Las Vegas hospitality industry.

He promised to, "work with President Trump to cut taxes for working families and end taxes on tips for struggling Nevada service workers."

As Nevada GOP Senate hopeful Sam Brown shouted out his wife in his convention speech, TV cameras picked out a boldface name on one of the seats next to her: Walt Nauta.

That's Trump's valet and co-defendant in the Florida classified documents case, which a federal judge dismissed yesterday. The office of the special counsel who brought the case said it has been authorized to appeal the decision.

As delegates and GOP faithful lined up at the main entrance into the convention's hard security perimeter tonight, they were greeted by a melee of Code Pink protesters, performing a gag.