Month: July 2024

Trump Seems Reluctant to Debate Harris

Buck Banks

“Now that Joe has, not surprisingly, has quit the race, I think the Debate, with whomever the Radical Left Democrats choose, should be held on FoxNews, rather than very biased ABC.”

— “Donald Trump ended Joe Biden’s campaign with a debate. But it’s not clear yet if there will be another one as Trump and his campaign are sending mixed messages about whether they’ll stick to their planned Sep. 10 debate with a new nominee,” Semafor reports.

Trump Acceptance Speech: ‘Incendiary Yet Dull’

Buck Banks

“The actual remarks as delivered topped 12,000 words, or four times the prepared text. Trump’s 2024 acceptance speech was the longest in recorded history, topping the next two entries (Donald Trump 2016, Donald Trump 2020, respectively). The result was paradoxically incendiary yet dull. The crowd’s response was, by the standards of a convention acceptance speech, shockingly sedate. … A convention speech can only matter so much. But Trump blew his speech as badly as he possibly could have.“

— Jonathan Chait

GOP Convention Viewership Down Sharply from 2016

Buck Banks

18.1 million

Despite Donald Trump’s dramatic appearance days after an assassination attempt, the opening night of the Republican National Convention drew in five million fewer viewers than the first night of the convention back in 2016 – when he became the party’s presidential candidate for the first time. According to Nielsen, Monday night’s coverage of the event in Milwaukee drew 18.1 million viewers across 12 broadcasters and cable networks, down from 23 million viewers across seven networks in 2016, reported The Independent.