Republican National Convention **live commentary thread**

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

AMERICA! DURO! AMERICA! ORGULLOSO! AMERICA! SEGURO! AMERICA! GRANDE!

[Fargobison]

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Are the balloon's still inflated?

[Oak Hills]

AMERICA! DURO! AMERICA! ORGULLOSO! AMERICA! SEGURO! AMERICA! GRANDE!

Is that a Mussolini reference?

[Wells]

This was a pretty good speech. I think he will experience a slight increase in the polls.

Most Americans will be too tired to answer these polls after this long speech.

[nm825]

#ImWithYou

[Gass3268]

This was a pretty good speech. I think he will experience a slight increase in the polls.

Probably, but I think the length sucked some of the energy out of it.

[Oak Hills]

CBS News says the speech was 74 minutes.

[Xing]

#Trumpsnotmyvoice

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

AMERICA! DURO! AMERICA! ORGULLOSO! AMERICA! SEGURO! AMERICA! GRANDE!

Is that a Mussolini reference?

Close.

[Dr. Arch]

#Trumpsnotmyvoice

[dspNY]

It's been an hour and 10 minutes so far. When's the last time an acceptance speech was this long?

Never in the televised era. I bet most of the audience tuned out halfway through

[Deblano]

Well, at least there were no apocalyptic riots on the streets of Cleveland.

There's the silver lining, at least.

[Pessimistic Antineutrino]

Any numbers on how many viewed the speech yet?

[Suburbia]

Pretty tough speech.

[Gass3268]

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" really?

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Overall, that was relatively strong and a surprisingly normal speech for him.  It was also about the most economically left wing he has ever gone so far.  Long speech, but I don't think Trump hurt himself tonight.

Nor do I think he especially helped himself either.

[Dr. Arch]

Is it over? The whole shebang? Please say it is so.

[Seriously?]

Any numbers on how many viewed the speech yet?

Too early to tell, especially with a good amount of the audience coming from cable. They may have a preliminary number soon, but most likely, a number won't be known until morning.

As far as the speech being "too long," 74 minutes was probably by design. It went into the 8 pm hour on the West coast and went through the time of the late local news in the East.

[cinyc]

Any numbers on how many viewed the speech yet?

You won't get the Nielsen overnight TV ratings until tomorrow.

[Blue3]

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" really?

[Pessimistic Antineutrino]

Too early to tell, especially with a good amount of the audience coming from cable. They may have a preliminary number soon, but most likely, a number won't be known until morning.

You won't get the Nielsen overnight TV ratings until tomorrow.

Ah was not aware of that, thanks.

[cinyc]

Too early to tell, especially with a good amount of the audience coming from cable. They may have a preliminary number soon, but most likely, a number won't be known until morning.

As far as the speech being "too long," 74 minutes was probably by design. It went into the 8 pm hour on the West coast and went through the time of the late local news in the East.

Rumor was they were expecting the speech to go around 50-55 minutes with all the applause.  It ran longer - about 20-30 minutes too long for my tastes.

[TomC]

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" really?

[Chief Justice Keef]

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" really?

[Xing]

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" really?

It's too perfect.