What Went Down On Night 3 Of The RNC

Maybe Pence’s speech will remedy this as he gets going, but tonight has felt very light on second-term policy. That’s consistent with the argument by Matt Grossman and David Hopkins: that the Democratic Party is more focused on concrete policies, while the Republicans are more interested in symbolic assertions of ideology.

That stood out to me, too, Geoffrey. “I’ve seen him when the cameras are off,” Pence said. Multiple people have spoken of acts of kindness involving Trump, but all behind the scenes — a recurring theme of this convention.

There’s arguably been more humanizing of Trump and Pence at the start of Pence’s speech than in anything else at this convention.