Chris Wallace lays out what Trump needs to do in RNC speech

“What President Trump needs to do tonight is what Mike Pence did very ably last night -- one to make the case for President Trump for what he has done, even to try to put the best face on what he has done in response to the coronavirus and then to really lay into Joe Biden and what clearly are the terms he’s going to as take the country in the wrong direction,” Wallace told “Outnumbered.”


As protests against police brutality and racism have often turned into violent riots, the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage and Louisiana and Texas are being battered by a hurricane so strong the storm surge has been called "unsurvivable," with a quality speech in what will be his highest-profile address since his inauguration the president can frame the rest of the campaign on his terms.

But a weak speech could handicap the president's campaign, which is already down in the polls heading into the stretch run of the election season -- the only other appearances of this stature Trump will make until Election Day will be on the debate stage next to Democratic nominee Joe Biden.