"Last night was a total disaster!" for Trump
"Former RNC Chairman, Michael Steele quipped that the DNC was the best Republican Convention he's been to in years. "
Hillary makes history, Trump makes dangerous alliance: Darcy cartoon
Hillary Clinton made history, becoming the first woman to accept a major party's nomination for president.
 By Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com
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on July 29, 2016 at 5:41 AM, updated July 29, 2016 at 5:43 AM
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Donald Trump spent Thursday doing damage control for urging Russian government hackers to meddle in the U.S. presidential election. Hillary Clinton spent Thursday making history, becoming the first woman to accept a major party's nomination for President of the United States.
On Fox News, Trump claimed he was just being sarcastic when he called on the Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton's missing email. Trump's claim that he was just being sarcastic is the real joke.
In the Wednesday press conference, Trump twice brought up Russian hackers obtaining Clinton's deleted emails. He did so with a straight face. Nothing in his tone or facial expressions indicated he was joking, It was the opposite. The camera doesn't lie, even though Trump does. He then doubled down on the comment in a tweet. On Wednesday, his campaign never said he was joking, instead they argued over semantics in defending Trump. Later on Wednesday Trump was asked about the comments by NBC's Katy Tur. He didn't tell her was joking, he doubled-down again, saying of the remarks, "no, it gives me no pause"
In her speech last night, Hillary Clinton made the case that a Trump presidency and Trump as Commander-in-Chief should give all Americans pause.
Clinton questioned Trump's temperament to serve as Commander-in-Chief. Saying that Trump had already shown he can't handle the rough and tumble of the campaign trail, Clinton questioned how he could handle the rigors of the Presidency. " A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons" charged Clinton.
Clinton's speech hit all the points she needed to hit. She reached out to Progressives, Independents and disaffected Republicans. Clinton was speaking as the first female nominee, and like the daughter of a Republican, Naval Petty Officer father and Democrat mother, that she is.
Former RNC Chairman, Michael Steele quipped that the DNC was the best Republican Convention he's been to in years. The DNC successfully usurped all the patriotic and Reagan optimism iconography that had once been the mainstay of the Republican party and its conventions until it became the Trump show in 2016.
Steele noted that he had heard from several conservatives who had a positive reaction to the Democrat's convention and even Clinton's speech. They felt the vision of America presented by the DNC the past four days,and Clinton in her speech, was more in sync with their own, and the pre-Trump GOP. They saw the RNC as being about Trump and doom and gloom, where the DNC was about America and optimism.
It remains to be seen what lasting impact, if any, either conventions will have on voters. Clinton will likely get a post convention bump in the polls as Trump did. The conventions are really just a preview of the Democrat's and Republican's game plan for the final three months of the campaign.
This is the earliest both conventions have been held since the 1960s. The first debate will not be until the fall. Clinton has demonstrated in her debates with Sanders, on the campaign trail and in her acceptance speech, she will be a far tougher debate opponent than any of Trump's Republican challengers had been.
The outcome of this election will come down to those debates, voter turnout, and with just over 100 days to go, it could very likely turn on unforseen events and the candidates reaction to them.
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