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

Maybe he’ll come back to it, but the president moved past the pandemic very quickly there. It seems like the Trump campaign thinks there’s not much to be gained from making an extended argument about COVID-19, but — and this is speculation on my part — this is a really hard chart to win reelection with:

The speech is setting up the election as a choice between drastically different ideologies. Which it certainly is. But can the Trump campaign just keep not really addressing the pandemic?

Now that you mention it, Clare, I hear that too. But honestly, it’s pretty faint, so I’m not sure most viewers will notice.

Trump asks, “How can the Democrat party lead our country when it spends so much time tearing down our country?” This is a contrast with Trump’s 2016 acceptance speech when he detailed everything he saw wrong with the country and claimed, “I alone can fix it.” Essentially, when you are the out party, you gotta criticize. Otherwise, why are you running?