The Republican National Convention’s lone cross-party speaker Monday evening accomplished more in one speech than all the Democratic National Convention’s Republican guests combined.
Not only is Democratic Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones’s address likely to be more memorable because of his use of exceptionally incendiary rhetoric, but he is also likely to generate more news coverage than any of the Democratic convention’s GOP speakers by virtue of the fact that he is a black Democrat who supports President Trump. Remember, even before his address on the first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention, Jones was being asked incredibly unprofessional questions by members of the press, including whether his support for the incumbent president is contingent on a cash payout.
