Trump accepts GOP nomination, promising to rebuild US economy
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president in a speech closing the party's convention on Thursday in which he's expected to argue voters can't trust Joe Biden to navigate the coronavirus pandemic or heal the nation's racial divisions."In a new term as president we will again build the greatest economy in history, quickly returning to full employment, soaring incomes and record prosperity.
The president said earlier Thursday that he was prepared to cancel his speech but that"we got a little bit lucky" with the storm because"it passed quickly." The president has recently drawn criticism for promising to keep low-income housing out of US suburbs, which his opponents say is a naked appeal to White voters.
"At no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies, or two agendas," Trump is expected to say, according to excerpts obtained by Bloomberg News. While Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have emphasised Trump's limits on travel from China and efforts to rapidly build ventilators and develop vaccines and therapies, Democrats say Trump cost American lives by initially dismissing the threat of the virus and never developing a comprehensive national response.
Trump and Republicans at this week's convention have nodded at the right to protest racial injustice. That theme will continue on Thursday night, with scheduled speakers including Patrick Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York, which has endorsed Trump, and Ann Dorn, the widow of retired St Louis police captain David Dorn, who was killed during protests in June."You can have four more years of President Trump. Or you can have no safety, no justice, no peace.
"The Republican Party goes forward united, determined, and ready to welcome millions of Democrats, Independents, and anyone who believes in the Greatness of America and the righteous heart of the American people," Trump will say, according to excerpts.
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