Trump’s convention depicted the president as a champion of 'law and order,' taking aim at voters who do not approve of his divisive and inflammatory rhetoric but may be jittery about months of protests over racial injustice and police brutality that have sometimes turned violent.
WASHINGTON - The back-to-back presidential nominating conventions that concluded with Donald Trump’s speech showed both sides intend to fight for the sliver of independent and moderate voters who will decide the election, each with a wildly different strategy in the final sprint to 3 November.
“These two conventions have offered very different pictures of reality, in terms of where our country is now and what our future may hold,” said Christopher Devine, an expert in US elections at the University of Dayton in Ohio. Biden holds a seven-point lead over Trump nationally, about the same position he held before the conventions, according to the Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll conducted 19-25 August. But it showed the race for suburban voters narrowing, a worrying sign for the former vice president who had previously expanded his lead with the crucial voting group.
The August poll had Biden leading among Black Americans by 62 points, up 6 points from July and the largest advantage for Biden among this group in at least six months. Ford O’Connell, a Republican consultant close to the Trump campaign, said much of the convention’s programming was directed at voters who “might have soured” on Trump because of his divisive style or were still looking for reasons to support him.
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