Republican Convention
July 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Before last night’s RNC finale, there were reports that Donald Trump had mellowed as a result of the assassination attempt last weekend, and that he would sound a unifying note in his nomination acceptance speech. Unfortunately, those reports turned out to be correct. The speakers who preceded Trump last night–Hulk Hogan, Eric Trump, Kid Rock, Dana White–were uniformly hard-hitting and high-energy, dialed up, in fact, to 11. That seemed to
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July 19, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Trump accepted the nomination of the Republican Party as its standard-bearer in the 2024 election last night. He accepted the party’s nomination in a 90-minute speech that ran over 12,000 words. The New York Times has posted the text of the speech here. I have posted video of the speech at the bottom. Trump’s speech capped what must have been a successful jamboree by traditional standards. This is Donald
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July 18, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I watched most of night three of the Republican Convention last night; in general, I thought it was terrific. The most powerful moments, as Scott wrote earlier, were provided by the Gold Star families of the service members who were killed in the terrorist attack in Afghanistan. These are among those Joe Biden pretended to forget when he said, to his everlasting shame, that no military personnel lost their lives
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September 1, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
Last week, a Morning Consult poll found that President Trump received a bounce from the GOP Convention, but that his standing among black voters declined somewhat. I found the latter result surprising, given the relentlessness with which Republicans appealed to Blacks during the convention. Now, a Hill-HarrisX poll finds that Trump’s support among black voters was up by 9 percentage points after the first two days of the Republican Convention.
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August 29, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
A poll by Morning Consult finds President Trump in better shape after the GOP Convention than before it. According to this poll, Trump now trails Biden by 50-44 among likely voters. Before the Convention, he trailed 52-42. This “bounce” seems to be a function of respondents viewing Biden less favorably than before, rather than viewing Trump more favorably. Morning Consult found that Biden’s favorability numbers have weakened while the president’s
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August 28, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
Alice Marie Johnson is the poster grandma for criminal justice leniency legislation. She spoke last night at the GOP Convention, getting a prime time slot on the final night. Her speech was powerful and, from what I’ve seen, received good reviews. But the speech was a fraud, and so, to a considerable degree, was Johnson. It’s fraudulent at several levels to present Johnson as the face of the leniency-legislation-for-criminals movement.
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August 28, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
I agree 100 percent with John’s comments about the speeches last night of Ann Dorn, widow of a murdered retired African-American police officer, and President Trump. America should be grieving the senseless murder of Dave Dorn, not the shooting of a criminal and domestic abuser who resisted arrest. Yet, you’ll be hard pressed to hear about Dorn’s slaying from the mainstream media, and it’s doubtful that our poorly informed social
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August 28, 2020 — Scott Johnson
The Republican National Convention ended with a bang yesterday, in more ways than one. Ann Dorn provided the devastating Big Bang that spoke to the moment as she addressed the murder of her husband earlier this year in St. Louis (video below). Mrs. Dorn is the widow of the late David Dorn, retired St. Louis Police Department captain, who was killed during the “protests” this past June, according to the
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August 27, 2020 — Scott Johnson
Franklin Roosevelt projected the image of his victory over polio. There may be all of three photographs of him in a wheelchair. For a nation laid low by the Great Depression, he sought to instill the conviction that we could rise again and get off the mat. Likely soon to be the youngest citizen elected to Congress in the past 200 years, Madison Cawthorn had something of the same idea
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August 26, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
From what I’ve read, Melania Trump is getting good reviews for her speech to the GOP Convention, delivered in the Rose Garden last night. I thought the speech was too long and, at times, boring, but I was not part of the target audience. The target audience was voters who are into empathy and haven’t detected enough of it from the president. Can an empathetic First Lady fill the gap?
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August 25, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
I watched three of the speeches delivered at the Republican Convention last night — those of Nikki Haley, Donald Trump Jr., and Tim Scott. Based on what I heard, I agree with my Power Line colleagues that the Republicans got off to a fine start. Haley and Scott embody the American dream and its relevance for minority group members and immigrants. They are walking proof that America doesn’t need an
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July 31, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
It’s too early to say for sure, but recent polling suggests that Hillary Clinton received a bounce from the Democratic convention. The magnitude of her bounce is unclear but looks to be of about the same magnitude as the one Donald Trump probably received from the Republican convention. As I discussed here, heading into the Republican event, Clinton had in led four of the five most recent polls on the
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July 30, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
We’re still waiting to see how much bounce, if any, the Democrats gained from their convention. But the television ratings are in. The Democrats had larger audiences the first three nights; the Republicans received a larger share for the finale. The degree of the Democrats’ edge varied over the first three nights. On Monday, apparently it was about half a million viewers. On Tuesday, the Dems had approximately 5 million
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July 25, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
The Republican convention may have been “dark” and “disunited,” to use the MSM’s favorite descriptions, but its nominee appears to have gotten a “bounce” from the event. Heading into the convention, Clinton had led in four of the five latest polls in the RCP list. In polls taken since the convention began, Clinton has led only once. In the four most recently completed surveys, Trump leads by 1, 2, 3,
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July 23, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
On Friday morning, the Washington Post (paper edition) sang in unison about Donald Trump’s speech to the GOP convention. The lead headline read: “Trump portrays a nation in peril.” Below that Philip Rucker and David Farenthold began their story: “Donald Trump painted a dire portrait of a lawless terrorized nation as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination. . . .” The front page also contained this headline by gussied up
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July 22, 2016 — Steven Hayward
From the Republican convention: Republican tariffs and immigration restrictions account largely for American wages being more than in any other country. Not only are our wages higher than in any other land, but American standards of living are far higher, hours of labor shorter and working conditions better than in any other nation. The object of a tariff is to benefit and protect our workingmen, from the lower wages, longer
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July 21, 2016 — Paul Mirengoff
Donald Trump pushed all the right buttons tonight. And pushed them, and pushed them, and pushed them. His address was too long and too loud. It was a sledgehammer of a speech, in keeping with Trump’s sledgehammer of a campaign. It gave me a headache. I don’t mean to say the speech was ineffective. Actually, I believe it probably worked, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump moved the needle
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