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- Mark Colvin

As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in C…

- Mark Colvin

I think certainly everybody is aware of the potential for just the very inflamed political mood in America .

- Mark Colvin

Mike Pence is simply shoring up the people the Republicans thought they already had. So he is a way for people who thought [Donald] Trump was not rea…

- Mark Colvin

The people who are showing up [on the Republican National Convention ], either they are ones who actually believe in Donald Trump, or they think ther…

- Mark Colvin

Donald Trump is going to be onstage introducing his wife, Melania, so I think this is the first time a presidential nominee has been onstage twice du…

- Mark Colvin

The proportion of [Donald's Trump] own direct family members who are speaking [on the Republican National Convention] is high to an unprecedented deg…

- Mark Colvin

Think the very fact that somebody like Mike Pence is seen as useful to the [Donald] Trump campaign would be analytically a sign of difficulty for him…

- Mark Colvin