What Went Down On Night 3 Of The RNC

With Michael McHale, the GOP is threading the unusual needle of highlighting problems on the President’s watch while arguing that they are the product of local officials’ failures. McHale also clearly shows the politicization of policing in recent elections.

It’s really, really ironic to hear Biden described as part of the most “radically anti-abortion ticket in history,” given that his record on abortion rights was actually a big weak spot for him early in the Democratic primary, until he reversed his long-held position on a piece of legislation that bans the use of Medicaid dollars for abortion.

I’m not sure how much we can say about Biden’s convention bounce because there weren’t really any live-caller polls taken in between the DNC and RNC, and live-caller polls tend to be “bouncier” than online polls and to show larger swings. So I’m not sure if it’s completely apples-to-apples to compare Biden’s bounce with the bounces from conventions past. Still, it at the very least does not appear to be a particularly large bounce, nor would you necessarily have expected one. I had a long Twitter thread on that this morning.