Rasmussen had an interesting observation a few days ago. They believe that Trump has been trending upwards for the last month, and they have seen in their own polls that there was no convention bump whatsoever for Biden. So they were waiting to see what kind of polls the media released, and they noticed that certain organizations had not released any post convention polls. Specifically, CNN had not released any post convention poll, and then Don Lemon went on that tirade about the riots hurting the democrats in "the polls". It seems like CNN may have realized that there was no convention bump for Biden at all and that was why they changed their attitude towards the riots.
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I expected that could be the case after the first night of the convention, and more so after the second. The fake pre recorded clapping, the awful cringey music performances, and the constant pausing, as if everything was delayed and everyone was missing their queue. I'm positive that a decent amount of that shit was pre recorded, especially the clapping, and even that was full of 2 to 3 second long blank stares before abruptly starting to clap. Even biden at one point just stared off into the distance looking as senile as ever.
The republican convention was bland enough that it wasn't able to hurt, and I had expected that all Trump would need to have a big boost was an actual crowd. It was such a contrast, even with the relatively low energy of crowd he had, I think it will end up puting him ahead in the majority of the polls.