Analysis: Kept to five minutes, Bill Clinton still draws blood from Trump
Brevity may be the soul of wit, as the saying goes, but Bill Clinton has never believed it is the soul of politics.
That appearance won him the label of “explainer in chief.” At this convention he was more like the “cameo in chief,” with remarks that lasted about five minutes and were before the major non-cable networks began their coverage at 10 p.m. There were no indications that convention planners wanted him for more than that, and there were some Democratic activists critical of his politics and personal transgressions who wanted even less, as in not at all.
“Donald Trump says we’re leading the world. Well, we are the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triple,” Clinton said, making his case that Trump has botched the national response to the pandemic by not realizing that a virus is impervious to his usual tactics of improvisation, insult, and blustery proclamation.
A recent CBS News poll of Democrats found that 56 percent wanted to hear from Clinton at the virtual convention, while 44 percent did not. That is not a robust majority for a president who left office, after surviving an impeachment two years earlier, with job approval ratings in the seventies and overwhelming support from Democrats.
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