Clash of Conventions

At the end of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 21, alarm bells started ringing in certain quarters. For the first time, Donald Trump, the eccentric businessman chosen as the Republican presidential nominee, was leading in the polls over his Democratic Party rival, Hillary Clinton.

This is what usually happens at the end of a convention – obviously due to the spectacle of the event, the heavy media scrutiny of the speeches, and the official selection of the person who could become the next resident of the White House. All this hullaballoo makes each party’s convention the unshakeable center of public attention for several days.

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