that Republicans seem to believe that everything and I mean EVERYTHING boils down to "tone" A bad message, a bad person, a bad President cannot be magically elevated or redeemed by a change in "tone"

Given that we have had several Republican speakers at the DNC, it seems only fair to ask whether or not any "Democrats"- past or present- will be speaking at the RNC this year in support of Trump? I haven't heard of any so far and it seems almost certain that the news media would have that information on blast already.

Period. I do, unfortunately, know more than a few people on the left whom hate Biden as much as Trump and will be voting 3rd Party or not at all. But most of my friends are still sucking it up to vote for Biden bc they know what's at stake even if they don't particularly like Biden.

Because a lot of people seem to like to preface statements about Biden's good polling this year with statements about how well Hillary seemed to be doing in 2016- and then she lost the EC vote, I would like to ask everybody here, should we or should we not feel encouraged about the polls? Granting, of course, that polls are polls and that Election Day is the only "poll" that matters and nobody should live or die by the polls, is there a likely difference between this year's race of Trump vs. Biden and 2016 Trump vs. Hillary? Should we feel better? The same?