Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee (Reuters/Mike Segar) That's a wrap. The most unpredictable and newsy political convention in at least four decades is in the books. Donald Trump's speech dominated the night, of course, but there was plenty of other fodder, too. Fix Boss Chris Cillizza's take on the best and the worst from the night that was is below. And we have plenty more analysis on The Fix blog itself. Winners (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) * Ivanka Trump: Everyone — including me — expected Ivanka to be good. After all, she's spent most of her life in the spotlight and shown, time and again, that she is entirely comfortable there. But Ivanka soared past those lofty expectations in her speech introducing her father. She was poised. She was confident. And, most of all, she was on message. Ivanka spent the bulk of her speech rebutting the idea that her father has a woman problem. She touted his "gender neutral" approach to hiring. She told stories of how he encouraged her, as a young girl, to think big. She recalled how he would send her sketches of buildings and tell her he couldn't wait until she would be building them alongside him. Ivanka did it all without savaging Hillary Clinton or Democrats. She simply painted an alternative — and far more appealing — picture of a man who everyone already thought they knew. Ivanka's speech was a home run — and, without question, the best speech of the convention. Watch (or rewatch) it here. * Donald Trump: The Republican nominee gave the crowd what it was looking for — a command performance of the tough-talking, details-free approach that won him the nomination in the first place. He promised to wipe out crime as soon as he took office. He promised to defeat Islamic State militants "fast." He promised a whole lot things. What he didn't do was provide any meaningful specifics about how he might do it. The crowd in the room was with him for the whole address — cheering in the right moments, booing when it was required. Trump, too, seemed relatively dialed in — staying, generally, on the teleprompter and hitting his applause lines well. The speech itself was well crafted — if WAY too long. (It clocked in at almost 80 minutes.) What I don't know, to be honest, is how Trump's volume — he yelled almost the entire thing — and, more importantly, the deeply grim picture he painted of the state of the country will play beyond the convention hall. Trump's vision of America is deeply dystopian and dark. The America he painted in his speech is badly broken and he is the only one who knows how to fix it. That grim vision, when combined with the anger in Trump's voice, made for a decidedly unconventional acceptance speech — no real surprise given who Trump is and how he won the GOP nomination. On the whole, the speech — I think — did Trump more good than harm, particularly at a convention in which his message had repeatedly been muddled by self-inflicted errors. But, is Trump's America a portrait that undecided voters recognize? And do they believe that he is the only one who can truly fix it? | 