Donald Trump has been revising his big convention speech in light of his brush with death at the weekend. ‘I basically had a speech that was an unbelievable rip-roarer,’ he told two interviewers yesterday.
It was brutal – really good, really tough… I threw it out… I think it would be very bad if I got up and started going wild about how horrible everybody is, and how corrupt and crooked, even if it’s true. Had this not happened, we had a speech that was pretty well set that was extremely tough. Now, we have a speech that is more unifying.
He’s Donald Trump, not Mahatma Gandhi
Trump the Unifier-in-Chief? His many enemies would scoff at the thought. But one of the reasons Trump is such an effective political campaigner is that he has strong intuitive sense of what others are thinking. He knows that a news event as dramatic and disturbing as Saturday’s assassination attempt has the power to change an election.
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