What was that?

| 9:09 am EDT August 28, 2020
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Judging by the jarringly low TV ratings, most of you probably didn’t watch the final night of the Republican National Convention on Thursday. You’re better off. There was nothing to be learned, even from an opposition research standpoint. There was nothing new. It was the same old ineffective message, just stupider and stranger in its delivery.

There was Ben Carson trying to stay awake through his own lie-filled speech. There was Dana White telling so many coronavirus lies, MSNBC had to jump in and try to sort them out. In fact seemingly half the Republican convention consisted of Trump’s people telling lies, and the other half consisted of the TV hosts correcting those lies. Oh, and of course the whole thing was literally illegal, taking place on the White House lawn and all. But half the people in attendance are going to prison if Trump loses anyway, so what’s the harm in one more crime? We’re mildly surprised Rudy Giuliani wasn’t arrested during his speech.

Then there was Donald Trump’s speech itself – and the only thing we’re going to say about it is that it did absolutely nothing to gain a single vote that he didn’t already have. Considering how far down in the polls he is, Trump’s speech was a complete failure, as was the entire convention. Trump spent the entire time strictly pandering to his own too-small base, still narcissistically unaware that his only narrow shot at reelection is if he can reach new voters in the middle.

So as weird, absurd, off-putting, offensive, deranged, criminal, and stupid as the 2020 Republican National Convention may have been, it’s not relevant to what comes next. We have sixty-something days left until election day. We’ll win if we double down and focus on voter registration, voter turnout, phone banking, and volunteering. Now let’s go win this.