Convention Yet to Provide Trump With General-Election Pivot

The Republican nominee has not fully taken advantage of the first two nights of his nominating convention.

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A year ago, when Donald Trump descended the Trump Tower escalator to announce his candidacy for president of the U.S., he was greeted by chortles and confusion from much of the national political press corps and the Republican establishment the New York real-estate developer was about to raze.

No one is laughing anymore. But he is also in a different, more challenging race now.