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Day Three Of The Republican Convention Got A Little Wild
Marco Rubio isn’t speaking at this convention, but a video of him just played. Many delegates didn’t seem to be paying attention. Rubio was, however, saying Trump’s name. That’s more than you can say for some of the other speakers.
Lynne Patton, Eric Trump Foundation vice president, walked an interesting rhetorical line — acknowledging, unlike many of the past black and nonwhite speakers, that discrimination exists in policing and otherwise, but making the case (perhaps not a case based on his rhetoric, but her case nonetheless) that Donald Trump cares for black lives, blue lives and all lives. She said, in fact, that she endorsed him not in spite of but because of the color of her skin, which is an interesting twist on the long parade of black speakers relative to Trump’s lack of popularity in the black community.