Republican Convention: Live Coverage Of The Final Night

Per my earlier comments about convention speeches and talking about change, Trump has developed a “gutting existing policy” thread as he talks about trade deals and foreign policy. The thing is, the policies he talks about are as much the result of Republican leaders as Democratic ones. This highlights Trump’s highly unique situation as a party outsider, but it’s also not uncommon for candidates who come at the end of a political era — the Reagan era in this case — to find themselves in this position.

This is another speech that has gone on long past prime time ended in the East. What perhaps is more interesting about that is that a lot of time was wasted with a rambling performance by Tom Barrack and very long segments by the house band.

Here’s the rough progression of topics in this speech as I see it from the transcript, which Trump has mostly followed so far; some of the transitions have been rather abrupt: crime-immigration-poverty-debt-foreign policy-rigged system-Clinton email scandal-Bernie Sanders-Mike Pence-shootings of police officers-inner cities-ISIS-LGBTQ-intelligence-immigration-trade-taxes-infrastructure-education-Obamacare-TSA-veterans-Supreme Court-religion-his family-Make America Great Again.