Presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Thursday night.
By the time the head pro at Donald Trump's Palm Beach golf club took the stage in Milwaukee on Thursday night, it was clear, on the off chance anyone needed even more evidence, that the Republican party believed it had this one in the bag.
"At our club championship in March, I watched President Trump hit a perfect 210-yard four iron to within 10 feet of the hole," an affable, red-cheeked John Nieporte said. "He needed to sink that putt to win. Do you think he sank it?" Here the crowd roared and Nieporte paused before leaning in to the microphone. "You better believe he sunk that putt," he drawled in the exact tone of a 12-year-old boy describing to his friends a naked woman he saw on TV.
"Donald Trump: 21 club championships," Nieporte said, grinning and nodding his entire head. "Joe Biden: Zero." It was the kind of surreally absurd moment Democrats used to crow about. Trump has always been at his weakest when he's acting like a buffoon. And on the final night of the Republican Convention in Milwaukee, the Trump machine amped the buffoonery up to 1.
They had a billionaire's son introducing his billionaire dad in a section devoted to "normal Americans."
They added Hulk Hogan to the speakers' roster, alongside UFC president Dana White. Russell Brand, a British comedian recently accused by four women of sexual assault, roamed the floor. Kid Rock, the right-wing rap-rocker behind "Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp" and other albums, was set to play.
And yet, none of it seemed to matter.
For the first time since Trump announced his first run for president more than eight years ago, he wasn't really the story Thursday.
One senior American reporter I spoke to said he wasn't even covering Trump in Milwaukee. "I'm here, but just doing Biden reporting," he said.
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