The final night of the 2020 RNC, according to Los Angeles Times reporter Stephen Battaglio, had “an average audience of 21.6 million viewers” — whereas former Vice President Joe Biden’s acceptance speech at the DNC attracted 24.6 million viewers.
Trump’s Republican National Convention was a ratings flop | Salon.com
This year’s RNC was predictably a circus, while the DNC was largely pitched to a relatively small sliver of affluent professionals and suburban conservatives. While conservatives are pulled ever rightward by an increasingly radicalized fringe, liberal elites discipline their base into accepting a message crafted for someone else.
The Republican National Convention, dominated by veneration of Donald Trump and bleak warnings of the dangers of socialism, has completely ignored the climate crisis, an omission that has disturbed some conservatives who warn the party risks being left behind by voters.
Republicans at the Convention Did Not Lay Out a Plan for Climate Change—Much Less Acknowledge It – Mother Jones
Given everywhere we’ve been over the past four years, there’s almost nothing interesting about this week’s Republican National Convention. The race-baiting. The allegations of a rigged election. The apocalyptic vision of an America under the Democrats awash with criminals and no guns to keep them in check. The idea that all that makes life good (especially in the suburbs) is under grave threat. And the insistence that only Donald Trump – “the bodyguard of Western civilisation” – can save the world. We’ve seen all these moves before.
Donald Trump’s strongman routine has finally failed him
GOP Convention Shows Footage From Spain To Warn About ‘Biden’s America’ | Crooks and Liars
Image from: YouTube Screenshot You didn’t expect anything truthful from the Republican National Convention, did you? On the first night, as one of their videos played, voiceovers forecasted the evil violent unrest that awaits should Joe Biden be elected president. The images that flashed across the screen, however, weren’t of unrest in Biden’s America. In fact, one of them wasn’t even a photo of America at all. It was a photo of fires burning in a street in Spain.
GOP Convention Shows Footage From Spain To Warn About ‘Biden’s America’ | Crooks and Liars
Take him to court he has SCOTUS protection says Trump (ODT)
The chairman of a Democratic-led US House of Representatives subcommittee announced on Tuesday an investigation into whether Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s appearance at the Republican National Convention breaks federal law and regulations.
Democratic US lawmaker says he is probing Pompeo’s Republican convention appearance
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