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While the convention season is over, which means everyone can get back to re-watching episodes

of Tiger King or whatever strikes their fancy.

The Republicans finished up on Thursday night with a one-hour address by President Trump

on the lawn of the White House.

For some perspective on the four-day apprentice-like Bonanza, I'm joined by John Foley,

our U.S. editor and and Anna Schumanski,

our columnist in Brooklyn. Hey, guys. Hello. So, Anna, let me start with you. What did you think of it?

How to compare with last week's Democrat extravaganza? You know, I was thinking about it,

and I feel like it's like the Ipetac convention, which is like, if you just take out the coronavirus, this is the America that they were describing.

So it was interesting.

I would say in comparison to last week, in some sense, it felt like a more standard convention

in that it wasn't using all of the digital tools that the Democrats used.

However, as I'm sure we will discuss, it was also highly, highly unusual in terms of the content,

and also specifically the use of the White

House and other official government property for campaigning purposes. Right. We'll get to that,

that the, you know, this alleged violation of the Hatch Act. But John, what did you think of,

I mean, how did you think it compared? What was your? Well, obviously, the theatre involved in the Republican convention was on a scale that

the Democrats came nowhere close to matching, and that partly is, as Anna says, because of the White

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