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

Remember when the fight over a “gasoline tax” was going to decide the 2008 election? Simpler times … simpler times.

No mention of climate change, except through the attacks on the Paris Accord and the boasts about low gas prices. That represents a real difference between Trump and the U.K.’s Boris Johnson, who has argued for the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“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.