Day 2 RNC - more Trump (of course) and speeches from Melania, Eric and Tiffany. The latter 3 aren't going to make any difference to anyone or anything. Meh!
Perhaps the RNC will score more Brownie points with their highlighting of newly naturalised immigrants, "small people" and women. However, I'm sure they and their stories will be forgotten before the week is out though.
From The Washington Post:
At the start of the night, a lengthy video featured Trump’s pardon of Jon Ponder, a convicted bank robber and three-time felon who has run a program that helps people transition to life outside prison. The pardon was announced shortly before the evening’s programming in a White House video.
The touching story noted that Ponder and the FBI agent who arrested him, Richard Beasley, have become unlikely close friends.
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One thing previewed by convention organizers — whose promises of an optimistic convention weren’t exactly realized Monday — was that regular people would be featured.
That also wasn’t so much the case Monday, but it was Tuesday, and it worked.
A Wisconsin dairy farmer, Cris Peterson, recounted the recent struggles in that industry and how her family suffered a blow when their cow-milking barn burned down. But she credited Trump’s economic policies and attentiveness to farmers’ struggles.
“President Trump understands that farming is a complicated, capital-intensive and risky business,” Peterson said. “More than any president in my lifetime, he has acknowledged the importance of farmers and agriculture. That support and focus on negotiating new trade deals gave us the confidence to rebuild our barn and dairy operation.”
Peterson said Trump, amid the coronavirus pandemic, “again took steps to provide the supports we needed. … One person deserves the credit and our vote: President Donald J. Trump.”
Similarly, the owner of a metal fabrication business — another Wisconsinite — credited Trump’s deregulation and renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement with helping his business. A longtime Democrat from Minnesota credited Trump’s trade war, saying that “for far too long, members both parties allowed our country to be ripped off by our trading partners, especially China, who dumped steel into our markets and slapped tariffs on our products.” And a Maine lobsterman recounted not voting for Trump in 2016 because he was skeptical of Trump’s conservative bona fides, but ultimately becoming convinced.
The emphasis on regular people — many of them notably from key electoral areas like these — seemed likely more effective than the focus on members of Trump’s family, who have been extremely prominent at the convention thus far and dominated Tuesday night especially.