In a strange way - there are a couple thoughts of David that reminded me of this - an awful lot of people don't ordinarily have day-to-day contact with police officers. I mean, it was - it was wrong, it was irresponsible, and it was unhelpful to his candidacy. You open up the convention, and you have got a report that the Democratic Party has been hacked by the Russians, e-mails, the e-mails of the Democratic Party, which is a headline and words that you don't want, if you're Hillary Clinton's campaign.Īnd Donald Trump immediately takes the story and basically steps on the advantage he has and say, well, the Russians, who am I to tell Putin? You know, the Russians ought to come in and continue to hack our - and find out where the e-mails are. I think Donald Trump is obviously the more colorful, the more flamboyant, the more dominant personality. Well, let me just dissent a little bit from David. So, the Democrats won this volley, I think. The positive agenda for Hillary was a little less vibrant.Īnd of those two, I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the Democratic theme is eclipsing the Republican one. I think that was the big message that came out. Maybe it just because I'm tired, but the further away you get, the less you know about the convention, and it boils down to a core theme, to one thing.Īnd so for the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.Īnd then, for the Democratic one, I really think of Trump erratic.

The whole presentation was just powerful. But, if anything, the Democrats looked more patriotic and more nationalist at the end of these two.Īnd so that was a big win. nationalists, and the Republicans were going to be the nationalists. Donald Trump tried to set up this debate where it was going to be globalists vs. It's rare we see the gap so big, frankly. Well, the Democrats had the better convention by a long way.

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