By Dave Andrusko
Joe Biden
Photo: Gage Skidmore
Pro-life former President Donald Trump’s triumphant appearance Monday night at the first day of the Republican National Convention lived up to all the anticipation and then some.
Two days after miraculously surviving an assassination attempt, Mr. Trump waved to the jampacked Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, demonstrating the grit and indominable spirit his supporters have come to love.
Even the Trump-hating New York Times was awed. Jonathan Weisman wrote
An emotional first day of the Republican National Convention ended Monday night with an official ticket for 2024, Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance, but it was Mr. Trump’s triumphal prime-time emergence in the arena, just two days after a failed assassination attempt, that might prove the indelible moment of the whole event.
The opening session signaled how unified and confident the G.O.P. was behind its preternaturally resilient nominee, and set the tone for a four-day conclave that will project Republican strength and conviction that a red wave is in the making.
We wrote yesterday that the Democrats’ faux sincere promise to “lower the temperature of political rhetoric” wouldn’t last long [“A one-day pause in the vitriol and hate directed at pro-life former President Donald Trump”]. Sure enough, after talking about his phone conversation with Donald Trump in the first minute of his interview last night with NBC’s Lester Holt, pro-abortion President Joe Biden quickly pivoted and savagely attacked Trump.
(Biden also recycled assertions that have been disproven over and over and over again. Holt knew that but didn’t call him out on these lies.)
As Finley Peter Dunne famously said through his fictional character Mr. Dooley, “Politics ain’t beanbag.”
I’ll post another story later today to explore other aspects of the presidential race now just 112 days away.