President Trump’s renomination keynote concludes a tale of two conventions: a Republican confab minimizing the coronavirus as a pandemic in decline and a Democratic gathering that spotlighted the pandemic as a crisis that threatens millions of lives.

Top Republicans have spent the party’s four-day event assuring voters that the economy is roaring back from a pandemic-induced recession because of Trump’s bold leadership to neutralize the coronavirus. On Wednesday evening, Vice President Mike Pence promised as he accepted renomination before a live, outdoor audience that the United States is “on track to have the world’s first safe, effective coronavirus vaccine” within four months.