Convention organizers say the president and his surrogate speakers will showcase optimism and inspire hope in a season of worldwide despair, with programming planned around themes of “promise,” “opportunity” and “greatness” for the country in a second Trump term.
“The big contrast you’ll see between the Democrats’ doom and gloom, Donald Trump-obsessed convention will be a convention focused on real people, their stories, how the policies of the Trump administration has lifted their lives, and then an aspirational vision towards the next four years,” Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in an interview Saturday…
While the Democrats reimagined their convention for the pandemic as a completely virtual affair, the Republicans are devising something of a hybrid model. The GOP event will not take place in a cavernous arena as planned, but some of the marquee speakers — including Trump’s on Thursday night on the South Lawn of the White House — still plan to appear live before hundreds of people, even at the risk of flouting public health guidelines…
McDaniel said the convention will present an affirmative case for Trump’s management of the pandemic and argue — in part by having live audiences for some speeches, a visual contrast with the Democrats’ hyper-vigilance about social distancing — that Americans can simultaneously tackle the virus and resume some aspects of their regular lives.
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