"The GOP
convention prime time speakers were almost a decade younger on average than the
Democrats’ a week earlier. The range of ethnic diversity was beyond anything
any prior Republican convention had achieved. The number of everyday Americans
– from lobstermen, farmers, industrial workers, small business owners, and
police officials – was dramatically larger than any former Republican convention.
The number
of African American speakers who repudiated Democratic attacks alleging the
president is a racist — and championed his policies as having helped
minority communities – was compelling. I think we will see significant support
for the president in November because of it.
Throughout
the convention, the Trump children did a great job of personalizing their
father and recognizing his accomplishments. Ivanka Trump perfectly set the
stage for his acceptance speech.
Finally, the
President’s speech was more like a State of the Union than a traditional
rah-rah convention speech. I think this made it more effective in the long run.
This was an
incumbent president sharing with the American people his understanding of what
had been accomplished, what was worth fighting for, and what he would
accomplish if re-elected. It was a serious, adult speech. What some reporters
thought was flat or uninspiring I thought was Eisenhower-like in its calm,
common sense language.
This was a
controlled, serious, thoughtful, and eminently presidential Trump – exactly
what his critics had called for over the last three-and-a-half years. It
confused them when they actually experienced it."
Read the entire analysis by Newt Gingrich here.
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