'It takes what are akin to earthquakes to change anything,' one strategist said.
"It takes what are akin to earthquakes to change anything," one strategist said.Balloons fall after former President Donald Trump accepted his party's nomination on the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 18, 2024.The Republican National Convention featured top lawmakers and rising stars, famous entertainers rocking out and ripping shirts off and a former president who less than a week before had survived an assassination attempt.
Such is life in a race between two men with virtually universal name recognition -- so long as it stays that way. Polling has suggested that Trump received a bump after June's debate, and there haven't been enough public surveys released since Saturday to reveal how much the shooting changed the race.
To be certain, there has been noise along the way. Besides this week's convention and the selection of Ohio Sen. JD Vance as Trump's running mate, Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts, Biden's son was also convicted on felony gun charges, protests rocked the country over the war in Gaza and more."I think that this race at this point is so dug in, it takes what are akin to earthquakes to change anything," said Jon Reinish, a Democratic strategist and former Senate aide.
Trump then gave his keynote remarks Thursday night, opening the speech with the harrowing details of Saturday's shooting before drifting into the meandering grievance rhetoric that has been characteristic of most of his campaign rallies so far. He blasted the "invasion" at the southern border, called former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "crazy" and accused his political opponents of "cheating on elections.
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