Washington correspondent
The virtual convention is also used to create a virtual reality. Deprived of activists' cheers by the Covid pandemic, which prevented the Republican convention from going in public as planned, Trump turned the event into a self-promotion exercise of a never-before-seen kind. Using his intimate knowledge of reality TV and the entertainment world, the president has completely rewritten the narrative of the past few months, without much subtlety skipping over the events that made 2020 one of the worst years in recent states' history. -United. To convince voters to grant him “four more years”, his campaign slogan as well as a summary of his program, the images and speeches at the convention gave the impression of projecting the viewer into a parallel universe.
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The Covid-19 pandemic, which made it impossible to bring together delegates from all US states, and which cost Trump part of
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