You&#x27;re not wrong, but conventions are more than a media show, even when they&#x27;re uncontested. It&#x27;s where the nominee for Vice President is chosen and the party platform for that year is drafted. The party usually defers to the presidential nominee for the former and vice versa for the latter, but Trump and the party are so at odds on so many things that those two things may not be a cut and dried as they usually are.