Daily Beast: “Instead of making the positive case for his re-election (which is nearly impossible), Trump’s natural move is to try and disqualify Biden. He telegraphed this via a speech he gave last week in Pennsylvania: ‘If you want a vision of your life under a Biden presidency,’ Trump said on Thursday, ‘imagine the smoldering ruins of Minneapolis, the violent anarchy of Portland and the bloodstained sidewalks of Chicago–and imagine the mayhem coming to your town and every single town in America.'”
“Sure, there will be some ‘untold stories’ painting Trump in a positive light, fluffy bio pieces, and nice speeches from folks like Scott and Haley, not to mention his wife and all four adult children. And there will be the trappings of power, via the appropriation of presidential symbols as props (see the White House Rose Garden). Maybe they’ll even throw in some fireworks. But American Carnage 2.0 will be the overarching theme of Trump’s RNC. Never mind the fact that all of this ‘violent anarchy’ happened on Trump’s watch, going negative is his only real play—which is to say that this week is going to get nasty. Time to buckle up.”