Donald Trump later today, making his first campaign stop since the assassination attempt at an indoor arena in Michigan and the first since accepting the GOP nomination with a speech his team said would be more reflective and focused on unity. It started that way. I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America. Then telling the story of his near-death experience in gripping detail. I'm not supposed to be here tonight. I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of Almighty God. But that didn't last long as he quickly reverted to airing old grievances and relitigating 2020. Crazy. Nancy Pelosi saved the election result. We're never gonna let that happen again. They used COVID to cheat. And while the campaign said Trump wouldn't mention Joe Biden by name, he couldn't help himself. If you took the ten worst presidents in the history of the United States, they will not have done the damage that Biden has done. In the end, it was the longest acceptance speech on record at 92 minutes. Boring some and missing an opportunity to set a new tone. This really reminded everyone why Donald Trump is fundamentally unpopular outside this room. Ryan, with apologies to the Who is the new Trump? Same as the old Trump. I do think that there is a material difference when it comes to how he's approach this campaign. I think as a general matter, he's been a lot more disciplined. And since the assassination attempt, I think that he has been a bit more somber, is expressed a bit more gratitude. But certainly, look, 92 minutes that was that was not a wise choice. You had this one moment where he had the public's attention. I think that this was a display of unity. And in a lot of ways, the production values were strong. Having ordinary Americans really take center stage for much of the convention was a really smart move. The downside is that there was some hubris here. There was some overconfidence. And I think that was reflected in some of Trump's choices this week. So I think he's saying teleprompter Trump and then there's real Trump. I mean, there is there's the 15 minutes of like actually he was reading the teleprompter and could talk about the speech and it was gripping, as you said. And then there's WhatsApp and the rest, which was kind of like wild hyperbole. He was talking about what's, you know, what happened. They pressed the factory reset and then he went back. So there was a concerted effort at the convention, not only by Trump, but by the choice of gas to soften the hard edges of Trump's image from a granddaughter's love to talk of divine providence, saving him from death. The media makes my grandpa seem like a different person, but I know him for who he is. He's very caring and loving. He truly wants the best for this country. God Almighty intervened because America is one nation under God and He is certainly not finished with President Trump. Tara, did the convention succeed in softening some of the edges and presenting a different Trump to voters? Well, until he got up, yeah, it worked. I thought the granddaughter was charming, was lovely. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Not so much. I think she was very good. But they tried to do it and they tried to do it in lots of different ways. But some of the speakers seemed off kilter. You guys were there, You heard them. I would say it worked a little bit. And then Trump showed up and was Trump that we know him as an. You're like, Oh, that guy again. I remember I was watching that speech and he was great until he and then it was off the rails. And Hannibal Lecter, I mean, it was talking about Hannibal Lecter, all these things, because I was sort of this. And honestly, I think a lot of that stuff comes across as pretty charming and funny to those who are open to him. Those were inclined his way. I think that it certainly was too long. I think that there's no getting around that. And it wasn't his focus. He was talking about, you know, immigrants being violent criminals. And and I'm sorry, but his whole brand is the idea that he's a truth teller. He says things that other things. Yeah, but it's it's greatest hits. A lot of people I know that are independent were like, I didn't believe the media about his rallies and now I believe that, well, that's good because it wasn't a nomination speech. It wasn't a big rally, was an acceptance speech, and then it became a rally. This is the inherent tension and the convention. All conventions these days are essentially infomercials. It was a great infomercial. They did a really good job. It was it was planned. Images that are going to stick with people were really good. The Gold Star families, all of that. Hulk Hogan was a tour de force. The problem is, is that Trump is the schism that ran through the whole convention was the people who understood that the audience was the TV audience versus the people who thought the audience were the people in the room. And Trump ate his spinach for the first 25 minutes and did what the professionals wanted him to do. And then he was like, Now it's time for dessert. I'm going to talk to people in the room and do my rallies. The Trump campaign tried to cast a wider net at the convention featuring a number of black and Hispanic speakers in a major speech at a Republican convention by the head of the Teamsters Union. John A Do you think Trump won? You talk about this between the or the audience in the hall and the TV audience of millions of people. Do you think he attracted new voters or the convention attracted new voters or just energized the Trump base? Well, I don't think any huge number of people were watching the convention on traditional television. The convention took 18, 20 million people. And a lot of them like Trump. I mean, like a lot of persuadables. I don't think we're watching. What I think they generated an enormous amount of content for was to cut up the Teamster speech, to cut up the Hulk Hogan thing that's going to go out on Tik Tok and YouTube and all these places. And those images are going to are going to do a lot of work for them. Also, the first 25 minutes of his speech, that's the stuff most local news channels are covering. They're not covering that crazy rally stuff. It's it's so they got the sound bites out of this. I think they needed a camera. Trump has been preparing for months to run against Joe Biden. How do you think the race changes if Biden does in the next few days, drop out and he's suddenly got whether it's Harris or TBA? TBD. A whole new opponent? Well, I think it'll it'll probably unsettle and we'll see what happens. I think he's more used to Harris. He has all his different lines about Harris. I think if it's someone like Newsom, I think it will disturb him because he's he's such a look est and Gavin is. Looks better than him, I'm sorry to tell you, but I mean, I think he gets rattled by physicality. And so we'll see what that happens. And I think you get very easily rattled by someone like that. Can I just get rattled by women to women? I mean, this is what I was about to say. We're not talking about the gender issue. I mean, if you look at what that entire convention was about, they were not talking about abortion. They were trying to soft pedal their positions. And the fact of the matter is, is that this is an in many ways an anti woman in the way that it's viewed movement that Donald Trump has. It appeals to men. It tries to build up this idea of retrograde masculinity. And so by having a woman at the head of the ticket, in fact, I don't think it should be a Josh SHAPIRO. It should be maybe a Gretchen Whitmer and have the ticket be all women. Because I think at this point, if the Democrats want to do something, they should try and show that they are doing something. I just want to bring one other element into this, Reihan, The generational issue, if you even if it's Harris who's in her late fifties or some of these other people who are considerably younger than that. Wouldn't that be an effective way to run against Trump and to a certain degree, against Biden to say, you know, it's a whole new game, it's a new, new generation. We're going to forget about the boomers and their fights and let's talk about the future and perhaps portray Donald Trump and his issues and his concerns on his history as old news. The most dangerous opponent for Donald Trump would be Governor Josh SHAPIRO For this reason, when he spoke about that firefighter Corey competitor who died at that Trump rally, he spoke about him warmly as a human being, as a citizen, as a great dad in a way that felt very authentic. I think it would be really hard to find another prominent Democrat in national politics who could really sell that after having really worked the progressive base for a long time in the Trump era. And I think that that's why SHAPIRO is someone who really represents a threat but won't put you on the SHAPIRO campaign to.