‘His Tone was Pleasant’: Wisconsin Swing Voters Evaluate Trump’s RNC Speech on CNN, Majority Offer High Marks

A group of Wisconsin voters who are open to voting for either former President Donald Trump or the Democratic Party’s nominee in November assessed his historically-long Republican National Convention speech on CNN Friday.

A majority of them offered Trump high marks following the one hour and 32-minute speech that was widely panned by the media and was said to have put some GOP diehards to sleep Thursday night in Milwaukee.

Trump touched on a number of issues facing the country during his remarks, but an expected shift in tone did not materialize after he criticized President Joe Biden , Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and otherwise went off script in a speech that many viewed as meandering after the first 40 or so minutes.

CNN’s Chris Wallace was so unimpressed he declared , “We have ourselves a presidential campaign again.”

But some of the 13 voters (11 of them undecided) who spoke to CNN national correspondent Gary Tuchman early Friday in Waukesha said they sensed the promised new “tone” from Trump five days after he survived an assassination attempt last week in Pennsylvania.

The swing state voters were asked to grade Trump based on a scale of A to F. Of the 13 Wisconsinites interviewed by Tuchman, two offered Trump an A, five gave him a B, four graded him with a C, and two gave the speech a D.

One woman who gave the speech an A told CNN, “The thing I was looking for was a change. And I felt I heard that change in his voice. I was looking for his discussion on getting unity together in the country as well as the border control and inflation.”

Another female voter who gave Trump a B said she expected him to go negative on women but was pleased he did not.

“I thought his tone was pleasant and something that – as a leader that – maybe I would be proud to have him as a leader with his more relaxed tone,” she said.

One woman who offered Trump a C said she did so because the former president had not shifted his “rhetoric” on claiming the 2020 election was stolen from him.

A man who graded the speech with a D said, “It started out great but then he went into mistruths, and grivances and attacks, and it totally contradicted itself.”

In total, four of the undecided voters told Tuchman Trump’s speech had won them over and they would support him in November.

Two of the 13 voters who spoke to Tuchman had made a decision before the speech with one vowing to support Trump and the other pledging to vote for Biden.

Watch above via CNN.