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

I’d have to go back and look, but it seems to me like claiming non-racism — that Trump isn’t racist, that America isn’t racist — is a historically unique recurring convention theme.

“Many on the other side love to incite division by claiming that President Trump is a racist. They could not be more wrong,” says Carson. That line is striking to me, given how many stories have been written on Trump stoking racial division, but Carson is not the first speaker during the convention to forcefully rebut this.

Building on Seth’s point, in the most recent Gallup poll, just 4 percent of Americans listed “crime” as their top problem earlier this month.