On the upside, David Sacks is getting even less enthusiasm from inside the hall than Noem did.
The GOP wanted to feature this quasi-isolationism in prime time on day one of their convention.
People might be skeptical of the idea of venture capitalist David Sacks – no natural speaker, he – delivering a prime-time speech at a national political convention, but I like to think of it as a quintessential feel-good American Horatio Alger story: You, too, can address the nation haltingly for 10 minutes provided you make a billion dollars and have a bunch of friends in Silicon Valley.
David Sacks alleges that Joe Biden “provoked, yes provoked” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and he perpetuated the war by failing to endorse a Russian-backed peace proposal. He laid the blame for Ukraine’s civilian casualties not at Vladimir Putin’s feet, but Joe Biden’s.
David Sacks: “We still don’t know which puppet Democrat Party bosses will install as their next nominee, but we know what their agenda will be: four more years of chaos and failure, both at home and abroad.”
WSJ is reporting that Elon Musk will be donating $45 million a month to a new pro-Trump super PAC that will focus on countering the Democratic advantage in early and mail-in voting.
Noem: “You can’t win people over by arguing with them.”
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has devoted most of her convention speech to a retrospective on Covid-era restrictions on social and economic life. It was a reminder of the opportunity Republicans missed in 2022, when such restrictions were still politically relevant, to mete out a reckoning to the social engineers who clung to those restraints and prohibitions well beyond the point of diminishing returns.
“Most of you probably first heard of me during Covid,” says Kristi Noem, who was elected to Congress for 12 years before becoming governor of South Dakota in 2019.
“Most of you probably first heard about me during Covid,” says Governor Kristi Noem, to the sound of Cricket.