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

I also wonder, Clare, if this is teeing up more criticism of the way Democrats are running cities.

Yes, Sarah — it’s a really interesting shift. In prior elections, incumbents would try to own successes and downplay failures. But the GOP this week has leaned hard into federalism and into deflecting blame onto state and local officials.

It is truly something else that there is a RNC segment about NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. This is sorta out of left field for this convention, but he is pretty unpopular with a lot of the (NYC-based) media and he’s been seen as whiffing on a lot of COVID-19 stuff, so I guess they figure he’s an easy target?