For a brief moment last night, Americans saw Donald Trump try something new: Stick to a script. Addressing delegates at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, the former president - and freshly anointed Republican nominee - read slowly and dramatically from a teleprompter as he recounted his near-death experience in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump had apparently broken a rule he'd been given: According to my colleague Tim Alberta, the Republican's advisers had been boasting before the speech that Trump wouldn't even mention Biden's name. But he couldn't quite help himself.
The spectacle Thursday night - which also included appearances by professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, UFC star Dana White, and Kid Rock, who sang a Trumpified version of 'American Badass' - was a fitting climax to a confused convention that spun wildly, like...
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