What is less understandable is why Trump’s team has been insistent that this week’s Republican convention will be somehow more optimistic. So it is that we can expect Trump and other speakers this week to spend an awful lot of time on one issue in particular: crime. On two, Biden has a clear advantage: race relations and the pandemic. On two — the economy and health care — views were mixed, with about-equal percentages saying “better” and “worse.”On crime, though? (Among Republicans, the difference between “better” and “worse” on race relations was 34 points; on the pandemic, 44 points.)

Source: Washington Post August 24, 2020 21:05 UTC