Dana Bash: Eric Trump's speech “was a far departure from the tone and tenor that the party and the campaign said that they wanted to put across”
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From the July 18, 2024, edition of CNN's CNN Republican National Convention: Night 4
DANA BASH (HOST): Yes, he clearly did change the speech as he promised he would. It seems as though his old speech was just reworked for his son, Eric.
JAKE TAPPER (HOST): Yeah, Eric giving a speech that was a list of grievances.
BASH: It was very dark. It was very dark. I mean, he told me that he was going to -- it was going to be warm and there was going to be some warm and fuzzy parts. That did happen at the end. But before we got to warm and fuzzy, there was a lot of dark and stormy, and it was pretty grievance-filled.
But it's very clear that they felt that they needed somebody to deliver that classic Trump message, whether it is about the issues of the border or culture war issues, which we actually haven't heard a lot about, certainly not in primetime, about, you know, trans kids in sports and things of that nature. He did it all, and that was a far departure from the tone and tenor that the party and the campaign said that they wanted to put across, particularly on the ultimate night.