The Republican National Convention began Monday, with a slate full of future leaders of the GOP speaking in favor of President Trump.
Below, some takeaways.
1. A promise of optimism, quickly abandoned
The GOP claimed that this convention would be significantly more optimistic than Democrats’ last week. Most of what we got Monday was decidedly not that.
“The big contrast you’ll see between the Democrats’ doom-and-gloom, Donald Trump-obsessed convention will be a convention focused on real people, their stories, how the policies of the Trump administration have lifted their lives, and then an aspirational vision toward the next four years,” Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said over the weekend. Continue reading.