WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - US Vice President Mike Pence on Friday (Aug 21) launched the Republican counterattack to the scathing criticism that President Donald Trump received at the Democrats' nominating convention this week, countering that a Joe Biden presidency would crush the US economy and allow civil unrest in the streets.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - US Vice President Mike Pence on Friday launched the Republican counterattack to the scathing criticism that President Donald Trump received at the Democrats' nominating convention this week, countering that a Joe Biden presidency would crush the US economy and allow civil unrest in the streets.
Trailing Biden in many national polls, Trump is under pressure to convince Americans they should re-elect him amid double-digit unemployment and an economic downturn that Democrats blame on his failure to address the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 170,000 Americans. The vice president outlined what would be the main thrust of Republicans at their own national convention next week, appropriating a line from Biden's speech that character, decency, science and democracy"are all on the ballot."
They will contrast that with the Democrats' agenda of higher taxes, government-funded healthcare, immigration reform"and continued calls to cut, defund, disassemble law enforcement, that's driving violence in the streets of our major cities," Pence said on Fox Business Network.
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