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

I’m trying to watch this speech with one eye on this Pew Research Center chart. It’s telling where Trump is and isn’t hitting the issues that voters say they care most about.

Chris, this is like the accusations earlier this week that Biden used his office to enrich his family. It’s wild to hear these kinds of statements wielded against Trump’s opponent, when there are so many similar accusations — of both using the presidency to enrich his family and of sexual assault, as Nathaniel mentioned — against Trump.

I’m becoming a bit of a broken record, but when Trump talks about Biden and the Democrats, he still sounds like a challenger. He’s referring to Biden as the destroyer of America’s jobs. I did a quick search, and Obama mentioned Romney once in his 2012 acceptance speech, and made one negative reference to the Republican convention. Bush mentioned Kerry once in his 2004 speech. But maybe striking a challenger-like tone will work for Trump, since there’s been a fair amount of focus on the nation’s problems at this convention.