Dear Sly Price Riser, we praise you.

Your commitment to raising the bar is something to look up too.

When the world said this mobile contract's price is high enough,

you said,

No, go higher.

Yeah, cheers to the bad mobile contracts out there for showing us how to make a good one.

One that would rather raise your data, not your prices.

Go to gift gaff. Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, August 25th. I'm Nailaboodoo. Here's how we're making

you smarter today. Inside donating convalescent plasma for COVID-19,

plus what it's like to fly during the pandemic. We start with today's one big thing,

night one of the case for re-electing Donald Trump.

The virtual Republican National Convention kicked off yesterday with an official roll call

that nominated Donald Trump and Mike Pence for re-election as the GOP ticket.

Elena Trine was watching everything yesterday and last night and is here now with her big takeaways.

Elena, so one big question I had was how much was the coronavirus and the

pandemic going to be mentioned and we actually that was a big topic last night.

It was.

I think that heading into it we knew that they wanted to

spend a lot of time on programming around the coronavirus specifically because

they know this is going to be a key priority for our voters in the election in November.

But I would say that the messaging we saw around COVID was really an alternative narrative

of how the pandemic has played out.

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