RNC Day 1 | Delegates discover Trump’s VP pick, awaiting speech [Video]

MILWAUKEE — Georgia delegates at the Republican National Convention learned about former President Donald Trump’s pick for Vice President shortly after they arrived at the Milwaukee convention center on Monday. 

However, before announcing the pick of U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as Trump’s running mate, Georgia delegate Bruce LeVell told 11Alive that the decision probably won’t have much of an impact politically. LeVell is a longtime friend of the former president and the 2016 director of the Trump campaign’s National Diversity Coalition. 

“The movement is so strong, any of the folks . . . that have been mentioned are well qualified. So it really doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t,” LeVell stated. 

When Trump went to the College Football National Championship game in Atlanta in 2018, LeVell sat with him at Mercedes Benz Stadium. When Trump was grazed by a bullet Saturday during an attempted assassination, Levell was …