Full-page ad on the back of the A-section of today’s @washingtonpost — pic.twitter.com/LaivusLlrn — Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) August 27, 2020 And the @nytimes as well. — Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) August 27, 2020 The message of this convention is that Trump has no friends that he doesn't pay. — Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 27, 2020 Or …
Thursday Evening Open Thread: Last Night of the RNC ConPost + Comments (151)
I just can't get over how much of this campaign message is, "None of this would be happening if Donald Trump were president!"
— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) August 27, 2020
Nobody was gonna waste any ‘top flight’ material on Mike Dense’s Big Night. Not the RNC committee, not the Trump team (insofar as those entities are separable), and certainly not the Media Village Idiots!
Every speech tonight – with the exception of Mike Pence's – is pre-taped. Every one.
— jonkarl (@jonkarl) August 27, 2020
Putin told Trump to find his Medvedev. A zero, no threat or distraction, good at looking at his boss admiringly. https://t.co/ifMrg3lam0
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) August 27, 2020
He was picked because Paul Manafort faked airplane trouble so he could keep Trump in Indiana and miss a meeting with Chris Christie.
The Senate Intelligence Committee found Manafort, now a felon, worked closely with a Russian intel officer tied to Putin's interference operation. https://t.co/NBgfKtP8dd
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) August 27, 2020
Apparently, Pence was planning to criticize "taking a knee" in his speech tonight. The Milwaukee Bucks just put their own livelihoods on the line for their cause. Contrast to Pence, who once spent $325K of taxpayer dollars to make a show of angrily walking out on an NFL game.
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) August 26, 2020
Not ‘expected’, Ezra, so much as ‘wanted’:
You get the sense the Trump campaign really, really expected to run against Bernie Sanders, and when Joe Biden won, they just kept the old plan.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) August 27, 2020
He’s right. Vote Biden/Harris. https://t.co/amPl53iTWr
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 27, 2020
As it turns out, “Idiocracy” was too optimistic. https://t.co/yUYGa3sFkI
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 27, 2020
"He shrunk government," says Gov. Kristi Noem, speaking about Donald Trump.
The government is nearly $1 trillion larger on an annual basis than it was when he took office. Trump did not reduce, let alone shrink, government.
— Matt Welch (@MattWelch) August 27, 2020
Ol’ Mike may still leave his mark on the con’s history, though…
.?@VP? Pence shakes hands with a supporter after his speech at the #RepublicanNationalConvention. Attendees at the event had not been tested for #COVID?19 beforehand. Pence is tested regularly. pic.twitter.com/eGOkajjqe0
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) August 27, 2020
Pence and his wife get close to the wounded veterans who have come to see him speak. Trump and Melania are keeping their distance. #RepublicanNationalConvention pic.twitter.com/0wJoWOuIN9
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) August 27, 2020
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
Matthew 7:15
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 26, 2020