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Keller @ Large: Donald Trump's Campaign Has Stalled

BOSTON (CBS) - A lot of things have contributed to the rise of Donald Trump.

Anger over immigration issues. Concern over global conflict and our role in it. And disgust with a sloganeering political establishment that seems alternately incompetent and arrogant.

Trump has done a brilliant job of identifying those problems and positioning himself as the antidote to them.

But while the nomination is his, it appears as if he will need something more to get over the hump in November.

This convention should be at least a testing ground for some new approaches to gaining support, or failing that, the fine-tuning of what he's already been doing. But night one came and went without any sign of improvement.

The speech by his wife Melania, delivered with great poise, could have been an opportunity to reach some voters upset about immigration but put off by Donald's harsh rhetoric. She could have gone beyond expressing love for her adopted country to connect with other legal immigrants who object to amnesty for illegals, but she didn't.

Every speaker agreed that President Obama and Hillary Clinton are terrible stewards of our foreign policy, but the critique is all negative with no positive solutions offered.

The convention planning was undistinguished, and while they were within their rights to crush the anti-Trump delegates with parliamentary moves, whatever happened to their outrage over political insiders rigging things?

Successful "outsider" candidacies usually improve as the campaign progresses. This one feels stalled.

They have three days left to fix that, and make undecided voters sit up and take notice.

Listen to Jon's commentary:

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