What Went Down On Night 3 Of The RNC

Grenell, during his period as Acting Director of National Intelligence, became the first openly gay Cabinet official, and he is only the third openly gay man to speak at the RNC. He’s had a lot of good things to say about Trump’s record on LGBTQ issues — even though the Republican Party still officially opposes gay marriage.

Fun fact, Fort McHenry sometimes flies a 15-stripe flag. They took a little while before fixing the number of stripes at 13 …

Twitter sentiment toward Joe Biden has been suppressed most of the night, suggesting that if the goal is to hurt Biden, the RNC is having an effect (in the Twitterverse). That’s different from last week, when the DNC didn’t really dent sentiment towards Trump in any sustained way.