Nixonland History Repeats With Trump’s Law & Order Campaign

Via America’s Lawyer: With both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions come and gone, what impact have these glorified pep rallies had on voters nationwide? Media analyst David Lamb joins Mike Papantonio to discuss.

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Both the Democratic and Republican national conventions have now come and gone. While media coverage is swarming with images of protests turned violent, what impact has the conventions, or these conventions, what have they had on the presidential race? I've got David Lamb, one of the best people in the business to tell us that. David I'm looking at the Trump show, otherwise known as Republican national convention. It's in the books.

It is.

Democratic convention in the books, we've talked about that already. Did the president get any sort of bump from, from that show?

Neither candidate actually got very much of a bump in this. I've got a, a morning consult poll taken after the Republican national conventions and now both conventions are in the book. There's just been a little bit of a movement in the president's direction. What I would warn against Pap, at this point a couple of months out, is paying attention to these national polls. The, the, the discussion points. What, what are the, what are the messages that the debates and the discussions are framed around and who do those, who's, who gains the advantage there? You were talking earlier about the Nixonland. I would advise our viewers to go back six weeks whenever you called this playbook, it's the law and order playbook. You've predicted it a couple of months ago. It has, it is in action right now. That is what is happening. If there, if there were a drinking game, every time Trump said law and order, we would all be hammered.

Well, look at his ads. You know, Rick Perlstein, I, you know, the reason I think Nixonland and the people that, that attack this idea, they need to read the book before they attack the idea.

Yeah.

But Richard Perlstein's brilliant and he wrote this book and he said, look, what, what happens when you take chaos, when you take chaos and you make it work for your talking points, there's nobody better than Karl Rove.

Right.

He learned under Lee Atwater.

Right.

Lee Atwater learned under Donald Segretti. These are all Nixon people. And they know how to take things like Kenosha and Portland and Seattle and Chicago and New York and Antifa. They know how to take all that and turn it into something that scares the bejesus out of people. Are polls showing that that's probably taking place?

Polls are showing movement in terms of, the suburban voters this election are, everyone's going after those undecided, more independent, more moderate if you will, suburban voters, that's where folks are going. Trump got them in 2016, there's a battle for them today. What are those suburban voters? What's, what's causing that movement? As the discussion switches and kind of pivots from the Coronavirus to, to your safety, to law and order, to justice and the, and the protests are, are framed more as, as anarchists. And, and the violence and the fires and the looting.

It didn't, it didn't start out like that.

It didn't.

And now, where is it? How, how has that regarded? The looters, they're not, they're not called protesters anymore. They're called rioters.

Yeah.

They're the, the stories are people shooting. I saw a headline today where they talked about the police officer was shot in back of the head by a protester.

Right.

That was a rioter.

Right.

Died.

Yeah.

And so they're seeing these kinds of stories every day. And the numbers you believe are tapping into that?

They are, there is movement there. They're, Trump is seen as more decisive and more, more of a stronger leader in that sense. Biden is seen as weak.

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