The dark depiction of Donald Trump’s speech by liberal reporters and commentators continued into the next morning with CBS’s Charlie Rose greeting viewers with this stark opening: “Welcome to CBS This Morning. Donald Trump accepts the Republican presidential nomination, saying there can be no prosperity without law and order. His speech focused more on threats than hope.”
A little later, on Friday’s show, Rose’s colleague John Dickerson also painted the speech in dark tones: “A speech left with no uplift, no hope in it....usually you use that hope to bridge to another constituency to draw people in, to reach into another constituency and we just don’t know if that’s possible with such a dark speech.”
Dickerson, however did seem to like (liberal) parts of Ivanka Trump’s speech: “She mentioned a lot of things Hillary Clinton supports....Paid family leave, equal pay, guaranteed affordable health care.” But Dickerson used that set-up to once again slam Trump: “She [Ivanka Trump] opened the windows. It was promise and hope and a kind of what you usually think of as optimistic themes right before Donald Trump came in and pulled the shades down.”
The following are the relevant excerpts from the segment aired on the July 22 edition of CBS This Morning:
CHARLIE ROSE: Good morning. It is Friday, July 22nd, 2016. Welcome to CBS This Morning.
Donald Trump accepts the Republican presidential nomination, saying there can be no prosperity without law and order. His speech focused more on threats than hope.
NORAH O’DONNELL: Hillary Clinton responded by saying, we are better than this. Her running mate is expected to revealed today.
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CHARLIE ROSE: CBS news political director and Face the Nation moderator John Dickerson is here. Good morning.
JOHN DICKERSON: Good morning Charlie.
ROSE: You were in the hall. Did Donald Trump enhance his ability to find a path to the presidency?
DICKERSON: Well it’s the big question. We all were there. We saw the thunderous response to him. And now the question is how big is the audience outside? We know there is some die-hard Trump people who will love what he said but this was a speech left with no uplift, no hope in it and the question is — usually you use that hope to bridge to another constituency to draw people in, to reach into another constituency and we just don’t know if that’s possible with such a dark speech.
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NORAH O’DONNELL: Ivanka Trump, a speech she talked about not being really a Democrat or a Republican and no mention of Hillary Clinton.
DICKERSON: No mention of Hillary Clinton who had been mentioned -- it felt like in every other speech. She mentioned a lot of things Hillary Clinton supports though. Paid family leave, equal pay, guaranteed affordable health care for, excuse me child care. She opened the windows. It was promise and hope and a kind of what you usually think of as optimistic themes right before Donald Trump came in and pulled the shades down.
ROSE: John, thank you so much.
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