Trump’s Carefully Scripted Week Kept Veering Off Script

“Donald Trump’s political endurance this year has been attributed in part to voters’ faded memories about why they denied him a second term four years ago,” the New York Times reports.

“The former president is doing his best to remind them.”

“Despite a carefully scripted week of campaign events aimed at counterprogramming the Democratic National Convention, Mr. Trump undercut much of his messaging with a series of off-the-cuff remarks, rants and blunders that threatened to stoke the kind of Republican anxiety he has spent much of the past month trying to tamp down.”

Doyle McManus: Donald Trump’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad convention week.