The GOP’s infomercial hopes to sell a likable Trump
Good luck with that.
CLEVELAND — As the gavel drops to begin the Republican National Convention here on Monday, the party will be focused on two goals: reintroducing Donald Trump as someone the country could imagine in the Oval Office during dangerous times, and healing the leftover wounds of a brutal primary season.
“The convention’s coming at a good time for us to turn the page,” a hopeful Reince Priebus, the party’s chairman, said in an interview after spending the pre-convention week snuffing out a “Never Trump” revolt among a rebellious group of party rulemakers.
Republicans descended on Cleveland, a city tense with security concerns and fears that street protests could turn into riots, as Trump on Saturday brought a chaotic and sometimes surreal vice-presidential selection process to its formal conclusion.
Officially introducing an uncharacteristically conventional running mate, Trump appeared in New York with Indiana Gov. Mike Pence for the first time as a ticket — an event that is normally one of the most intricately choreographed in any presidential campaign.
But Trump did it on a badly lit stage in a rambling speech that was mostly about himself, proving once again that he is a candidate who cannot be scripted.
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