Republican National Convention **live commentary thread**

[KingSweden]

Love those guys with the trees on their heads.

Pro tip, "Okanagan" means Tree on my Head (think about it for a second)

[KingSweden]

Fun update from the Swedish royal family's dinner tonight, my staunchly Republican father admitted he's either leaving President blank this year or voting for Gary Johnson. He has never as far as I know voted Liberterian since naturalizing as a US citizen fifteen-odd years ago.

[KingSweden]

I know he is a very hated man, but you have to give credit where credit is due. Cruz is an amazing orator.

He's giving the "you picked the wrong man" speech

No kidding

[KingSweden]

Trump weaving back and forth from sounding like a Democrat to not sounding like a Democrat.

[KingSweden]

Why make the speech about crime? How is going hard on crime going to win over swing voters when it's at a historic low??

He's speaking to the GOP base, who believes that crime has gone up, unemployment up, deportations down, and the stock market down under Obama even though the opposite is true. They live in an alternate reality.

TBF, Appalachia and a lot of small towns have been hit pretty hard, and that's where a lot of the base is from. Not necessarily an alternate reality, just not indicative of the full national picture.