Zadeve v ameriški politiki gredo z večjo dinamiko. Trump je na republikanski konvenciji pokazal ne samo, da je povsem pokoril stranko in jo poenotil za seboj, ampak tudi državniško držo (kolikor je to pri njem sploh mogoče). Iz sebe je naredil orjaškega zmagovalca (če ga seveda ne bodo (tokrat bolj) “uspešno umaknili” iz igre). Bloomberg:

Donald Trump took the stage at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee last night as a conquering hero. It marked an incredible political comeback.

Trump survived two impeachments; his 2020 election loss; the GOP’s efforts to exile him after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection; primary challenges from would-be Republican successors; and, just last week, an assassin’s bullet.

Perhaps most remarkable of all: The man who beat Trump in the last election, Joe Biden, looks increasingly unlikely to make it through the Democratic convention next month, whereas Trump is now the undisputed Republican power.

Trump’s domination of the party was evident throughout the four-day convention. In contrast to his first go-round, in 2016, Trump was no longer bound by stuffy Republican notions of decorum or obligations to appease evangelicals, foreign policy hawks, anti-abortion activists or any other conservative faction.

Instead, last night’s proceedings had the trappings of WrestleMania — and many of the participants, too. Former wrestling star Hulk Hogan gave a pep talk and UFC president and promoter Dana White gave Trump’s introduction. In between was a high-decibel performance by Kid Rock that would have sent old-guard Republicans like his former vice president, Mike Pence, to the fainting couch, had Pence not already been ostracized from the party.

Trump’s speech was billed by the campaign as something new — not the dark “American carnage”-style red meat he’s famous for. It would be more a statesman-like call for national unity. Let the record show that Trump did utter pre-written words to that effect: “The discord and division in our society must be healed.”

But his heart wasn’t in it.

Trump seemed eager to mythologize Saturday’s assassination attempt, recounting in elaborate detail the “providential moment” when the bullets whizzed past him and extolling the “giant audience of patriots” for not fleeing at the sound of gunfire.

He quickly departed from the text on the teleprompter into the kind of free-association MAGA-rally riffs that makes those events so odd and entertaining (and often turns them into multi-hour affairs).

Eventually, he got back to business and rattled off the rest of his script. This included promises to restore prosperity and safety, oust immigrants in the country illegally and finish his border wall, as well as vanquish the nagging economic problems like inflation that polls show have soured so many voters on Biden.

By the time the speech rolled into a second hour, it was clear that this was less a traditional presidential acceptance speech than a vintage Trump campaign rally.

That surely didn’t matter to the delegates, most of them die-hard Trump fans. It may not have mattered much, either, to anyone watching at home who managed to make it to the end of what was the longest acceptance speech of a major party candidate in modern times.

Everything about the speech and the event differentiated him from Biden. And at least for now, as Biden lingers on the Democratic ticket, polls suggest that’s what most voters are looking for.

Na drugi strani pa se je kolo politične sreče (beri: kolo denarja) povsem obrnilo proti Bidnu. Največji donatorji so naredili orjaški pritisk na vodstvo demokratske stranke, naj umakne Bidna. Grozijo, da bodo financiranje kampanje zmanjšali za polovico, nekateri grozijo celo, da “ne dajo niti enega dolarja več” za Bidna. Kar je seveda vse že zdavnaj TOO LATE, čeprav si donatorji delajo utvare, da še imajo možnosti, da preprečijo izvolitev Trumpa. Medtem ko nekateri na veliko razglašajo, da je Biden že out, pa je na drugi strani Bidnova trma. Trma dementne osebe. Kdor je imel opravka z osebami z močno razvito demenco, ve, kaj to pomeni. Financial Times:

Democratic megadonors believe Joe Biden is close to exiting the White House race after they threatened to halt funding for his campaign and party grandees indicated they now considered his candidacy untenable.

Donors from Wall Street to Hollywood have in the past three days heaped new pressure on party grandees including Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi, urging them to persuade Biden to drop out.

One megadonor close to Schumer, who has spoken with people close to the Senate majority leader in recent days, said: “I think it’s going to end very shortly.”

“The pressure is insurmountable,” said one senior Democrat in Washington, predicting that Biden would be “out by Monday”. Other people close to the party leadership said it could happen earlier.

“Biden’s gotten the message that there’s not another dollar of fundraising,” said one Wall Street bundler — a donor tasked with raising money from other backers. “Members of Congress are getting more aggressive . . . He’s just not going to be able to withstand it.”

The moves gained momentum in recent days as a damaging split-screen for the president unfolded on national television, showing Republicans rallying around Donald Trump after he was nearly assassinated, while Biden defied calls from his party to quit and on Thursday was seen struggling to climb aboard Air Force One after testing positive for Covid.

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At a press conference in Milwaukee on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Biden campaign spokesperson Quentin Fulks said that Biden was “staying in this race . . . the president is in this race”.

John Lawrence, a former chief of staff to Nancy Pelosi, said that threats by the donors in the party might be counterproductive in getting Biden to step down.