During a panel discussion on Thursday, CNN's Van Jones compared the enthusiastic support for former President Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention to the level of support former President Barack Obama received in 2008.
Jones, a former Obama adviser, said he hadn't seen such calm energy at a Republican convention since Obama was first nominated more than a decade ago. He was responding to CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings' excited mood during the panel.
“This spirit, this man [Jennings] “Everybody thinks it's because he's drunk but it's not! This is what this incident is like. Hey, listen guys, the last convention I felt like this at was Obama in 2008. Something's going on…” Jones said.
“Just like Obama, Trump is showing at this convention that he has the ability to change the composition of the electorate – that's the difference,” Jennings added.
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David Axelrod, a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, contrasted the issue, saying Obama has support from both sides of the political aisle.
Trump is scheduled to speak publicly for the first time since the assassination attempt at a rally on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, where suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired eight shots into the crowd, killing a father of two daughters and wounding Trump and two others. (RELATED: 'The Democratic Party is Fragmenting': Van Jones notes COVID-19 'stopped' Biden, but 'bullets didn't stop Trump')
Trump is currently leading both nationally and in battleground states for the 2024 presidential election. Emerson College vote Polls released Thursday showed Trump leading among registered voters nationally, 46% to 42%, and in battleground states such as North Carolina and Arizona.
The poll was conducted among 2,000 voters on July 15-16 and has a margin of error of 2.1 percentage points.
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