How the Televised Convention Helped Trump Pivot

Jul 22, 2016, 08:11 AM

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Before the convention began, I had noted that the convention would have a minimizing effect on Donald Trump's skyscraper-sized persona—that, forced to operate within the bounds of a four-day event with straightforward and familiar traditions, the most garrulous nominee in recent history would be effectively, for lack of a better word, tamed.