1: You know it is going to be an unusual week at the Republican National Convention when your Uber driver greets you with, “Hi, I’m Muslim … and I’m big time for Donald Trump.” The bottom line to our 20-minute conversation: Trump is strong and will keep America safe while Hillary Clinton cannot be trusted to do the same.

2: Statistics don’t lie: The economy is sleepwalking its way to the weakest recovery since 1949. And slow growth is the fuel that has powered the populist ascendancies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. All of which puts Clinton in a box: Run as Obama’s third term and thereby ignore his weak economic record, or indict the slow recovery and risk turning off an Obama-loving Democratic base.