With the work of nominating the party’s presidential ticket done, the topic of conversation on the floor at the RNC has shifted to slowly percolating problems on the other side of the political aisle, according to one long-time party delegate.

MassGOP Chair Amy Carnevale, speaking with the Herald while attending her fourth party convention, said that before the delegates gathered in Milwaukee all that anyone wanted to talk about was President Joe Biden and the growing push for him to step aside following his disastrous display at the first debate.

“Before Saturday, that subject completely dominated conversations, with people talking about which Democrats were saying he should be replaced, what it would mean, who it might be,” Carnevale said.

After former President Donald Trump’s apparent near brush with death on Saturday, naturally, Trump’s health and the business of seeing through with his nomination became the central topic of conversation.

“The focus was back on President Donald Trump and his health with the start of the Republican National Convention and on Republican Party priorities,” she said.

But with even more calls coming from the Left for the 81-year-old Biden, currently home sick with COVID-19, to make way for a younger liberal, Carnevale said that Republicans are taking notice.

“There was more of that talk last night starting with his COVID diagnosis,” she said. “It’s coming back around.”

Even apart from Saturday’s apparent assassination attempt, this year’s Republican National Convention has been one for the history books, according to Carnevale. The MassGOP Chairwoman attended as a delegate in 2012, 2016, 2020, and this year as the chair of the state party.

Carnevale said one major difference is the lead up to the event.

This time around, it was Trump in control of the party apparatus instead of any of the attempts at the reverse, as seen in past elections. The Republican Party platform adopted by the convention, she said, “is very much a Donald Trump focused document,” down to the diction and capitalization.

“I think the party seems more unified than ever,” she said. “We’ve heard from former competitors and former VP contenders over the last couple of days and their message is all the same: we have to come together to defeat Joe Biden.”

Carnevale said it’s hard to convey the “sheer sense of enthusiasm and energy for the Trump-Vance ticket. Again, that’s really felt on the floor of the convention.”