It’s official: There’s no Trump bounce out of the conventions – CNN

So, yeah. For all the speeches and all of the spin of the last two weeks, the race on September 3 is pretty much where it was on August 3.

Trump, um, doesn't agree.

Like many of Trump's tweets, these two should be read as a bit of overcompensation. Because he knows, somewhere deep down, what I've just laid out is right. And he knows that is bad news for him.

That wasn't the case for Trump. He entered his own convention in a historically weak position for an incumbent president -- with approval ratings stuck in the low 40s and running well behind Biden in most national polling. Trump's convention then needed to change things, whether the entire arc of the race or, at a minimum, voters' perceptions of him.

Trump's campaign clearly understood that imperative. Speaker after speaker -- from Trump family members to average Americans -- took the stage to extol the softer, more empathetic side of Trump. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has sickened more than 6 million Americans and killed more than 185,000, was virtually nonexistent. In its place was an emphasis on "law and order," driven by scare tactics designed to make suburban women especially fearful of what America might look like if Biden is elected.

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