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

“Joe Biden is weak,” says Trump. “These same liberals want to eliminate school choice while they enroll their children in the finest private schools in the land. They want to open our borders while living in walled-off compounds and communities. They want to defund the police while they have armed guards for themselves.”

Meredith and Perry looked at this question earlier this summer and did find that despite wide majorities of white Democrats saying that they thought discrimination in the U.S. was an issue, that didn’t mean there was support for structural methods of correcting this. That said, I’m not sure if Trump calling it out as hypocrisy will be the most effective way to win over these white voters who maybe aren’t as progressive as they think.

Maybe the idea was to string together a few meme-able clips that can make the rounds on social media tomorrow, rather than deliver a coherent 90-minute opus?

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.