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How to watch the Republican National Convention from pretty much anywhere

YouTube, Facebook, Twitter: Pick your poison.

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Can’t get enough Trump?

The long-awaited spectacle of the Republican National Committee’s 2016 convention is here, and there are plenty of ways to watch as Donald Trump, already a well-known reality-TV figure and New York-sized personality, is introduced as the new face of the GOP.

Each day of the convention, which begins today and extends through Thursday, is devoted to a theme. Here’s a rundown of each day’s highlights:

  • Monday: Make America Safe Again

Headliners: Melania Trump, Lieutenant General (ret.) Michael Flynn, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa and Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont.

  • Tuesday: Make America Work Again

Headliners: Donald Trump, Jr.; Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., former GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson and actress Kimberlin Brown.

  • Wednesday: Make America First Again

Headliners: Son Eric Trump, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, whom Donald Trump has chosen as his vice presidential running mate.

  • Thursday: Make America One Again

Headliners: Billionaire investor Peter Thiel, Colony Capital founder Tom Barrack, daughter Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump.

You won’t even need to turn on the TV to catch livestreams of the speeches.

The RNC promises gavel-to-gavel coverage on YouTube. The official RNC app, which offers produced video segments, details about speakers and a livestream of the convention, also is available for download through the Apple and the Google Play stores.

Twitter will livestream the convention, through a deal reached with CBS to carry the news organization’s 24-hour digital stream. For some reason that’s not an easy feed to find, but you can watch it here.

Facebook and ABC also announced a partnership Monday in which ABC will stream its digital coverage of the convention to Facebook, which includes up to eight different live feeds at any given time. This coverage is the same as what you’ll see on ABC.com or from ABC’s mobile app, but different from what you’ll find if you turn on your television during the network’s prime-time coverage.

Snapchat says it will create Live Stories around the GOP convention this week and upcoming Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next week. That means it will take user snaps and content collected by its own news team on the ground and compile them into montages around each event. So while you won’t be able to stream live, you’ll likely see stuff on Snapchat you won’t see anywhere else.

Instagram will showcase photos of convention speakers taken at its Backstage Portrait Studio here.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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