What Went Down During President Trump’s Closing Speech At The RNC

Micah, it’s definitely the case that voters right now don’t think much of the government’s COVID-19 response.

Currently the polls show 58 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s response to the coronavirus. That’s a healthy majority, but that also means there’s a segment of the population that thinks Trump has done a good job. Those people are probably already primed to digest the praise of the actions he took and the message that the hundreds of thousands of deaths were unavoidable.

Yeah, Geoff, McCarthy described the pandemic as “invisible” and said something along the lines of “We didn’t invite this.” That message — essentially that the pandemic was an act of god and that the Trump administration couldn’t have done anything to prevent it or blunt its impact — has been a consistent feature of this convention. So …

Do people think voters will buy that? Or that some voters will? Or that enough voters will?