
Analyzing the Final Night of the 2024 RNC
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Former President Donald Trump accepted the GOP nomination.
Political commentator and radio host Santita Jackson joins Northwestern University professor Erik Nisbet to analyze the final evening of the 2024 Republican National Convention.
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Analyzing the Final Night of the 2024 RNC
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Political commentator and radio host Santita Jackson joins Northwestern University professor Erik Nisbet to analyze the final evening of the 2024 Republican National Convention.
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BUT FIRST, MORE ANALYSIS OF THE FINAL NIGHT OF THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN FOR THAT.
WE'RE JOINED BY SANTANA JACKSON, A POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND HOST OF THE SANTEE TO JACKSON RADIO SHOW AND ERIK NISBET, A PROFESSOR OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND COMMUNICATION AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
THANKS TO BOTH OF YOU FOR STICKING AROUND WITH SO ERIC, LET'S START WITH YOU.
WHAT IS THE BIG MESSAGE BEEN OVER THE COURSE OF THIS WEEK AND, YOU KNOW, HOW DID?
HOW DID THE FORMER PRESIDENT SORT OF RESPOND TO WHAT THE REST OF THE CONVENTION HAD TEED UP FOR HIM?
I THOUGHT OVERALL WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION IT IT IS NOT YOUR FATHER'S OR GRANDFATHER'S PARTY RIGHT?
THEY PUT ON A GREAT SHOW.
IT WAS A TRUMP SHOW.
THE OVERALL MESSAGE WAS STRENGTH.
I AM STRONG BIDEN AS WEAK.
A LOT OF FOCUS ON IMMIGRATION OVERALL DURING THE COURSE OF IT.
AND BUT TONIGHT, I THINK THE WEEK AS PART OF THE CONVENTION WAS ACTUALLY TRUMP SPEECH, RIGHT?
START OFF STRONG.
STORY WAS GREAT.
AND THEN THAT ME AND OR CAN.
BOY, DID IT MEANDER BECAUSE EVERY WE JUST FINISHED A LITTLE WHILE AGO, WE SPOKE FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF, LONGEST WE JUST YOU DO TO DO THAT.
YOU KNOW, IT'S WHAT STOCK THAT EVEN PREACHES ON TALK THAT LONG, SANDY, TO WAS THIS MODERATED TONE THAT SOME PEOPLE EXPECTED EXPECTED HIM TO BE REFLECTED BECAUSE HE HAS HAD HE'S LOOKED CONTEMPLATIVE.
LOOK, THIS IS SOMEONE WHO, AS HE SAID FOR QUITE SOME TIME, HE DESCRIBED THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AND THAT DOES CHANGE IT TO SHAPE YOU.
BUT I WAS STRUCK BY JD VANCE SHOT BY HIM BECAUSE HE'S A FUTURE.
HE'S YOUNGEST VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
WE'VE HAD MORE THAN 60 YEARS SINCE RICHARD NIXON BACK IN THE 50'S AND WHAT HE IS TELEGRAPH YOU IS WHAT IT WAS INTERESTING TO ME WAS ECONOMIC POPULISM, WHICH WAS POKING ECONOMIC IN THE CHEST.
AND THIS IS SOMEONE WHO'S NOT SUPPORT UNIONS, THE SLIDE A SON, NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, SOMEONE WHOSE OWN COMMUNITY.
AND NOT IN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
BUT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, THE MEDIAN INCOME IN MIDDLETOWN, OHIO IS GOING $42,000 A YEAR TO $63,000 YEAR.
HE'S SOMEONE WHO ALSO SPONSORS.
SHARE CROPPING IN HIS VENTURE INTO VENTURE CAPITAL, LISTEN.
AND SO I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT.
BUT I THINK THIS WAS A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION.
I FELT THAT WHAT TRUMP GAVE TONIGHT, THE FORMER PRESIDENT LET ME RESPOND FOR CHAMBER SPECIALLY BECAUSE I THINK YOU SHOULD DO THAT.
HE GAVE YOU THE UNEXPECTED, WHICH IS WHAT YOU DO IN MARKETING.
I BUSINESS MAJOR, BUT I DO KNOW THAT WHAT HE DID DO WAS GIVE US WHAT WE DID NOT EXPECT HE GAVE US SOME WAS MOTION SOMEONE WHO'S MORE HUMANIZED.
AND THAT'S JUST HOW HE CAME OFF.
I'M NOT SAYING THAT.
THAT'S WHAT I THE 1ST HALF THE SPEECH CAME ABOUT.
KNOW, HE DIDN'T GET YOU.
LET ME SAY THIS WEEK WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT UNITY.
HE DID GIVE UNITY.
HE JUST DIDN'T GIVE UNIFORMITY.
AND I THINK WE'VE GOT TO BE VERY, VERY CLEAR ON THAT BECAUSE UNITY DOESN'T MEAN THAT PERRY 2, ALL IT MEANS WELL, LET'S COME TOGETHER AMERICA.
BUT LET'S COME TOGETHER ON MY AGENDA.
AND THAT'S ALWAYS THAT'S WHAT HE'S SELLING, THAT THAT'S FAIR.
BUT HE STILL THERE WAS STILL THE OLD TRUMP THAT IT GRIEVANCE WELL MISINFORMATION.
PAINTING DEMOCRATS, IF NOT BY NAME, BUT FOR ALL THE COUNTRY'S ILLS.
AND OBVIOUSLY, YES, WE NEED TO HAVE POLITICAL DIFFERENCES IN POLITICAL DEBATE.
THAT WAS THERE WAS ENOUGH OF THE OLD TRUMP THERE THAT THIS NEW TRUMP WILL THAT LAST RIGHT?
A LOT LIKE I DO NOT EXPECT TO THIS NEW TONE DOWN TRUMP TO LAST ANY SERIOUS BOUT OF TOOK A NEW TRIPLE WORK.
THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE ARE BUYING.
PEOPLE SELLING TOLD TRUMP HE JUST HAD TO BE PACKAGING PUT A BOW ON IT THAT SOME PERFUME COLOGNE, ITS NEW COKE.
THAT WILL NOT LAST VERY LONG.
CLASSIC COKE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS KNOW.
BUT CLASSY COPENHEFER LEFT AND THAT'S OKAY.
BUT THAT'S WHO HE
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