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

We just heard from Stacia Brightmon, a Marine Corps veteran and single mom who talked about her positive experience with an apprenticeship program. Does it feel to others like we’re already hearing from more ordinary Americans tonight, or is it just me?

The Black community’s relationship with the Democratic Party has been front and center these past few nights. And there’s no better place to start understanding that relationship than the recent book Steadfast Democrats, by Ismail White and Chryl Laird.

Despite both conventions’ focus on trying to win over members of the other party, it’s worth remembering that the Pew Research Center found earlier this month that a relatively small share of people move between the parties. Only 9 percent of people who initially identified as Democrats in September 2018 had switched to the Republicans or leaned toward the GOP as of July 2020. And it was exactly the same share moving in the other direction — 9 percent of Republicans became Democrats or started to lean that way. And 3 percent of each party no longer leaned one way or the other.