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

There’s not a lot of structure to this speech. I don’t know how people will react to the substance, but it feels like it jumps around randomly.

Trump says he will protect Medicare and Social Security, clearly important to the many older voters he hopes to win in November. But his recent executive order to give workers a temporary break from paying payroll taxes has raised the specter that a tax holiday could become permanent and harm the long-term solvency of Social Security.

It’s worth remembering that Trump consistently trailed Biden by 6 points in national polling both before and during the first few months of the pandemic. It wasn’t until June that Biden opened up his current 8- or 9-point lead.