CNN's Jake Tapper predicted that the poll numbers between President Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden will tighten up following Thursday's Trump speech during the Republican National Convention.
Shortly after Trump spoke from the White House South Lawn, Tapper broke down the speech.
"You saw this evening and in the last four nights the view of the world from Planet Trump, the view of the world as the president wishes it were," Tapper said. "He has talked about the world and the pandemic as almost it is over in terms of the event and how he's holding this event. A pandemic event — nobody was social distancing with a crowd of 1,500 [to] 2,000 individuals, very few masks, no mass testing.
"It was as if we were not in the middle of a deadly pandemic, which is, of course, what the president wishes were the case but is not the case."
He added, "That is the Trump that White House officials and campaign officials wish they had all the time, one who is not sending tweets that upset people, one who is not making comments that upset people when he ad-libs. And I think it's important to note that I do expect there to be some sort of narrowing in the polls after this rather filtered week, but we still have many days to go and we'll see if the president is able to stay as disciplined."
The four-day RNC ended with Trump's speech, in which he said, "no one will be safe in Biden's America."
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