CNN anchor Jake Tapper predicted a “narrowing in the election” Thursday night after what he described as a “disciplinary” speech by President Trump’s Republican Convention.
Tapper, who is usually an outspoken critic of the president, began by emphasizing the “shattering” of Trump’s American political norms, noting that the use of the White House as a convention venue might be the Hatch Act has violated.
“You saw this evening and in the last four nights the view of the world from Planet Trump, the view of the world as the president desires it,” Tapper said. “He talked about the world and the pandemic as it is almost over in terms of the event and how he holds this event. A pandemic event – no one was socially distant with a crowd of 1,500 [to] 2,000 individuals, very few masks, no mass testing. It was as if we were not in the midst of a deadly pandemic, which is obviously what the President wishes was the case, but is not the case. “
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Tapper then claimed that the country had witnessed a “filtered” President Trump throughout the convention, noting how he mostly clung to the teleprompter with very few ad-libs.
“That’s the Trump that White House officials and campaign officials wish they had all the time, someone who does not send tweets that transmit people, someone who does not comment on them.” t disturb people when he ad-libs, “Tapper explained. “And I think it’s important to note that I expect there to be some sort of narrowing of the polls after this fairly filtered week, but we still have a lot of days to go and we’ll see if the President is able to stay as a discipline. “
Tapper’s colleague Dana Bash voted in favor, calling the term ‘discipline’ a ‘good word for’, adding that what voters saw was “Teleprompter Trump” and comparing his speech to a State of the Union address.
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“He does what he has to do, not what he wants to do when it comes to what he says,” Bash said. “He kept the kind of speech that his advisers were desperate for him to make when it came to the strategy for him to win re-election and more importantly, to do so by throwing the heaviest blows as hard as he possibly could against Joe Biden. “
She called Trump’s attacks on Biden the president ‘strongest’ and ‘most’ robust ‘attempt to define his Democratic rival.
