6 highlights from Night 2 of the RNC2020
against using"The People's House" for campaign politics to cast it as the backdrop for First Lady Melania Trump's keynote address.
Three of Trump's relatives spoke as the convention. And it highlighted Trump's work on criminal justice reform, in contrast with his frequent warnings about crime, while largely ignoring the coronavirus crisis.For the second night in a row, you could be forgiven for watching the Republican convention and having no idea there was a worldwide pandemic raging. The COVID-19 crisis, which voters say is the most important issue facing the country right now, almost never came up Tuesday.
Larry Kudlow, one of the president's top economic advisers, spoke about the pandemic in the past tense."It was awful. Health and economic impacts were tragic," he said, even as the virus continues to kill over a thousand people a day in the U.S. on average. Instead, Kudlow and other speakers focused on the economy, touting rosy job numbers and soaring stock prices before the COVID crash, suggesting things will pop back quickly thanks to their businessman president.
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