Laura Washington: The Donald Trump lovefest at the RNC was full of contradictions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Trump is the master marketer.
62% : Trump's once-bitterly sworn enemies are now admiring allies: JD Vance, the party's gleaming new vice presidential nominee, as well as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who fiercely competed with Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries.
61% : Trump had better watch his back.
56% : The adoring delegates are certainly unified on the certainty that Trump will return as their commander in chief.
49% : "My message to them is simple: You don't have to agree with Trump 100% of the time to vote for him," she added, in her "strong endorsement" of the former president.
48% : The top pros in finance, politics and other industries are already concluding that Trump will return to the White House in 2025.
47% : No one in politics has perfected the practice of name-calling better than Trump.
43% : Take Haley's blandishments toward Trump, as she declared that "there are some Americans who don't agree with Donald Trump 100% of the time" Tuesday night at the convention podium.
42% : While bleeding and in mortal danger, he pushed back on his Secret Service protectors and turned to the camera with a raised fist and the battle cry, "Fight, fight, fight!"Always the calculating showman, Trump spun his brush with death into a commanding advertisement of his strength, resilience and power, just in time for his convention.
33% : She blasted the media for what she says is unfair coverage of Trump.
24% : Apparently, Haley got over the hateful nicknames Trump lobbed at her during the primaries, when he dubbed her "birdbrain" and "Nikki 'Nimbra' Haley," a racist jab at her Indian heritage.
23% : In the wake of the terrifying assassination attempt on Trump, guns are not considered a problem for his party -- or America.
17% : But Trump may have miscalculated with the hyper-ambitious Vance.

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