A Look Back At Perhaps The Strangest Political Convention Ever

On this episode of Inside Politics, perhaps the strangest political convention ever is over.

From Charlotte to Jacksonville to Charlotte again — and then to Washington D.C. – we’ll look at the week that was … the 2020 Republican National Convention.

Lisa Worf and Steve Harrison will discuss President Trump’s surprise visit to the Charlotte Convention Center to speak to 336 delegates.

That’s where the president made repeated – and unsubstantiated – claims about mail voting. He also resurrected the 2018 mail-ballot scandal in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, in which a political operative working for Republican Mark Harris is accused of illegally harvesting completed mail ballots.

“They wanted to put a Republican – a fine man – they wanted to put him in jail because he harvested,” Trump said in Charlotte. “Now they’ll want to make harvesting legal all of a sudden.”

The podcast will look at delegates deciding not to wear masks on the final day of the Charlotte RNC at the Convention Center – and then the White House packing 1,500 people on to the lawn for Trump’s second acceptance speech Thursday night.

Among those in attendance was N.C. GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, who tweeted a photo of him wearing a mask before the speech started. But he was then later photographed without wearing one as the president spoke.

And the podcast will analyze the president’s two speeches – on Joe Biden, the coronavirus and law and order.

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