“This has nothing to do with politics,” he added. “I think we’re going to see something that is going to be very uplifting and positive,” he said in an interview on Fox News over the weekend. “These riots are an antigovernment movement from the Left that are all in Democrat run cities,” he wrote on Twitter on Sunday. The convention will give Mr. Trump an opportunity to give a more fully realized answer to a question that seems to have flummoxed him over the summer, namely: What does he want to do in a second term? And while assailing Mr. Biden as a captive of the socialist left, Mr. Trump will argue that he built a great economy before the pandemic and can do so again after it is successfully curbed.

Source: New York Times August 23, 2020 16:27 UTC