The GOP has traditionally been the party of corporate America. But you wouldn’t know it from the Republican National Convention last week in Milwaukee, according to this week’s Working Lunch political-affairs podcast.
“It appears to be even more populist than the last time around, with more of an anti-corporate feel to it,” Joe Kefauver, a principal of the Allied Public Strategies government-affairs shop, commented to business partner Franklin Coley. “Were you picking that up?”
“I heard one commentator say it sounded like a DNC [Democratic National Convention] speech from the 1980s,” Coley responded. “This is a different day.”
He attributed the anti-business undertone to J.D. Vance, the Ohio senator selected by Donald Trump as the vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket.
“Didn’t mention tax cuts once in his speech,” noted Coley. “Spent his speech decrying Wall Street and corporate greed.”
Give this week’s episode a listen for a fuller analysis of what the Milwaukee convention signaled for the run-up to the November elections.
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