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

There have been a couple interesting moments during the RNC — one just happened — in which a Trump surrogate sorta distanced Trump from the Republican Party. (Ivanka Trump said that many of the issues she has championed have not traditionally been GOP priorities, but “where Washington chooses sides, our president chooses common sense.”

It would be pretty fascinating, if Trump is still trailing Biden by high single digits in October, to see which happens first: Republicans turn on Trump or Trump turns on Republicans.

Ivanka Trump says her father chooses common sense over partisanship. That’s fascinating because, on the one hand, Trump has changed the GOP’s direction on some issues such as trade, but on the other hand, he’s viewed as more conservative than he was during the 2016 election, which reflects a more right-leaning approach than maybe some voters expected.

Ivanka criticized Democrats for not supporting the doubling of the child tax credit, which passed as part of the 2017 tax reform bill. Of course, that’s not the part of the law that Democrats were actually opposed to.