Four days to defend the indefensible': Republicans seek to sell Trump to the nation again

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'Four days to defend the indefensible': Republicans seek to sell Trump to the nation again
President will appear throughout a partly in-person convention which must follow the Democrats’ virtual success

David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Mon 24 Aug 2020 02.00 EDT


(Guardian UK) Buffeted by America’s most severe public health and economic crises in decades, Donald Trump will this week stand before the Republican party and again seek to persuade the nation that he alone can fix it.

The celebrity salesman stunned the political establishment four years ago when he won the Republican primary, diagnosed the nation’s ills and told convention goers: “I alone can fix it.”

At the 2020 Republican national convention, which begins Monday, he will be nominated by the party for a second term as US president and, in a break from tradition, deliver his acceptance speech on Thursday from the south lawn of the White House.

Organisers of the Republicans’ first virtual national convention face an uphill task, and not only because the Democrats’ technically slick version last week is a tough act to follow. They must pitch Trump to the American public during a pandemic that has ripped 170,000 lives from families and communities. In an era of negative partisanship, they will also seek to whip up fears that Democratic nominee Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris pose an existential threat to the American way of life.

“The problem is what the Democrats did last week, and I think did very effectively, is confirm that this election is a referendum on Donald Trump’s presidency,” said Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican national committee. “Trump now has to beat that narrative back and then give them a reason why it’s a choice election between what he’s done – tax cuts, et cetera – and what Biden will do, and I just don’t get the sense that the voters are going to buy that.” ...........(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/24/republican-convention-donald-trump-joe-biden

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1. The Repukes this week are going to be like the Germans at Stalingrad.

Or as Stephen King so eloquently wrote, "You can't polish a turd."

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2. RNC Fear for Your Lives Convention

Four days of fear and hate platform