-The fact is, we're here,
and they're not.
-The conventions are now over,
and we're less than 10 weeks
from election day.
This is your "2020 Fix."
While President Trump
is running as an incumbent,
the Republican convention
in many ways
treated him
like a challenger,
warning of the danger of having
a Democratic administration,
even while pointing
to the scenes
that are happening
in Trump's America.
-Joe Biden may claim
he is an ally of the light,
but when it comes
to his agenda,
Biden wants to keep us
completely in the dark.
-Republicans and Trump also
pointed to the economy,
arguing that he should be judged
on what happened
before the coronavirus pandemic
and not what's happened since.
-In a new term as president,
we will again build
the greatest economy in history.
-Democrats, meanwhile, focused
on painting Trump
as a failed president
while pointing
to his coronavirus response.
-The president takes
no responsibility,
refuses to lead, blames others,
cozies up to dictators,
and fans the flames
of hate and division.
-They also characterized him
as a threat to democracy
by pointing to his comments
about unproven allegations
of voter fraud.
-There are those who are
disgracefully
using this pandemic
to spread misinformation
and interfere with voting.
-So, did the two parties
accomplish what they set out
to these last two weeks?
The Republican convention seemed
very much focused
on the president's base.
-And you are the reason
he is going to keep fighting
for four more years.
-While the GOP convention
featured many Black speakers
and appeals
to Republican women,
a lot of the messaging
seemed to appeal to voters
who are already
very conservative.
-And this election is a choice
between two radical
anti-life activists
and the most pro-life president
we have ever had.
-Biden, meanwhile, holds a lead
and mostly
needs to maintain that.
His message was less to
the extreme of the party
and talked about unifying
not just Democratic voters
but also the country.
-It's time for us, for we
the people, to come together.
-The question now is
how much these conventions
truly matter to voters'
decisions in the 2020 election.
We sometimes see polling bumps
from these conventions,
but oftentimes those
bumps fade over time,
as other issues
come to the forefront.
The other question was,
who was tuning in?
Was it mostly the parties'
already existent bases,
or were swing voters
actually consuming
some of these messages?
One thing about this election
is that there are actually
very few swing voters,
even less than 2016
at this point.
Will those voters be tuning in?
Will the messages matter
to them?
So far, the election has been
very static,
with relatively few things
shaking up Joe Biden's
overall polling lead.
