Frida Ghitis , a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. She is a frequent opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a columnist for World Politics Review. (CNN) At times, while watching the pandemic edition of the Republican National Convention , I had to remind myself this wasn't a "Saturday Night Live" parody of the Party of Trump. The charge that the Democrats are all becoming socialist clashes with the reality that primary voters chose the centrist Biden, who then picked a centrist running mate in Kamala Harris. If "SNL" were scripting the RNC, they could simply lift some of these speeches and performances verbatim.

Source: CNN August 25, 2020 05:48 UTC