Republican Convention Night 2 Review: Donald Trump Tries Reality TV Tactics To Show His Softer Side, But Shatters Norms Along The Way

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom started by thanking President Donald Trump for his help on the California wildfires when they met on Monday.Newsom said the president acted very quickly and that his major disaster declaration “profoundly significant.”“I want to thank you and acknowledge the help that you’ve given,” said Newsom to Trump before saying the amount of federal support the state has received, “may be a record.”He thanked the president for his commitment

Ted Johnson Joe Biden went on offense in advance of Donald Trump’s visit to California on Monday, as the Democratic nominee blasted the president as a “climate arsonist” who is ignoring science and how it relates to extreme wildfires out west and natural disasters elsewhere.“If you give a climate arsonist four more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if we have more of America ablaze?” Biden said in remarks from Delaware.

Ted Johnson Donald Trump’s rally in Henderson, NV, didn’t get the kind of coverage that his most recent events have for one good reason: It was indoors, with many of his supporters not wearing masks and not socially distanced.The major broadcast and cable networks kept their correspondents outside the rally, out of health concerns.“NBC News reporters did not go inside the rally and we will continue to follow and monitor prevailing public health guidelines regarding large indoor gatherings as we

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerPresident Donald Trump this morning tweeted that “animals” shot two Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies last night in Compton, California.The two sheriffs were ambushed at point-blank range by an unknown shooter on Saturday night.

Ted Johnson Joe Biden tried to turn the tables on Donald Trump’s attacks, emphasizing that the unrest and violence in cities like Kenosha, WI, and Portland are taking place under the president’s watch.“He’s supposed to be protecting this country, but instead he has been rooting for chaos and violence,” Biden said in a speech on Monday from Pittsburgh, as he signaled that he would be traveling more often to swing states as the fall campaign nears.“The simple truth is Donald Trump failed to

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerPresident Donald Trump unleashed a Category 5 tweetstorm today, tweeting and retweeting more than 70  messages in his regular Sunday communications.The Commander-in-Tweet focused on the continuing chaos in Portland, Oregon in his early messages, chiding that city’s Mayor Ted Wheeler for refusing to allow federal intervention to quell the disturbances.

Of course he had to have a crowd. The definitive image of the fourth and final night of the 2020 Republican National Convention was President Donald Trump standing at the White House’s South Lawn in front of 1,500 adoring loyalists, packed tightly together, mostly without masks.

Ted Johnson Donald Trump will deliver scathing criticism of Joe Biden in his Republican National Convention acceptance speech on the South Lawn of the White House. That’s a given.The bigger question is whether Trump will address the unfolding crisis in Kenosha, WI, and how he frames the police shooting death of Jacob Blake.

Ted Johnson As Donald Trump prepares to give a norm-shattering acceptance speech on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday, government watchdogs are filing ethics complaints alleging that other moments from the Republican National Convention may have been in violation of a key ethics law.On Thursday, Citzens for Responsibility and Ethics In Washington requested a investigation of Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf for his participation in a convention moment on Tuesday, a

Dominic Patten, Ted Johnson If the most unobtrusive man in America thought tonight was his moment in the spotlight at the Republican National Convention, Mike Pence learned the hard way that Donald Trump always gets the last word.As the powerful Hurricane Laura moved closer and closer landfall in Texas and Louisiana, Trump’s vice president seemed like an afterthought on Wednesday as the boss came onstage to upstage him without uttering a word.Speaking live to a small audience at Fort McHenry in

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerThere are no public events scheduled for President Donald Trump until this evening, when a news conference that promises “a major therapeutic breakthrough” on the coronavirus is planned, as announced late last night by Kayleigh McEnany, the White House Press Secretary.The President is using the quiet time to visit Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, VA.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOne day after criticizing President Donald Trump in a video shown during the final night of the Democratic National Convention, California Governor Gavin Newsom asked the president to declare a major disaster in his state.Newsom said in his DNC video that Trump had “threatened the state of California, 40 million Americans who happen to live here in the state of California, to defund our efforts on wildfire suppression because he said we hadn’t raked enough

Ted Johnson Barack Obama plans to deliver a convention speech on Wednesday that will offer biting criticism of his successor Donald Trump and characterize Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as just the people who can lead “this country out of dark times.”Obama will be one of the marquee speakers on the convention’s third night, which will finish with the convention’s acceptance speech.“I have sat in the Oval Office with both of the men who are running for president,” Obama plans to say, according to

Victor Willis, the singer and songwriter behind the Village People’s enduring hit “Y.M.C.A.” became the latest artist to criticize President Donald Trump for using his song at campaign events. The 69-year-old musician took to Facebook on Tuesday to explain to his fans that he does not endorse Trump using the track at the end of campaign rallies, specifically linking to a video in which he concluded a speech in Arizona with the song.