Republican Convention Shows Trump's 2nd-Term Agenda Looks Just Like His 1st
Republicans readopted the same platform that propelled Trump to the White House in 2016. But GOP divisions and partisanship have ground Washington nearly to a halt.
A central promise of last week's Republican National Convention was a pledge that President Trump would use a second term to build on elements of his first term, with very few updates and changes.
The four days of convention programming showed a Republican Party whose policies are bound to Trump. But GOP divisions over many of those policies prevented much of the 2016 Trump agenda from ever becoming law. And that dynamic was in place well before the coronavirus pandemic changed politics.
"This is the unifying national agenda that will bring our country together," Trump said on the final night of the convention in a speech
