Mike Pence officially accepted his party’s nomination as vice president wednesday night, his keynote address at the Republican National Convention, a speech in which he hastened to congratulate his running mate and boss, President Donald Trump.
“For the more than 4 years, I have had the privilege of competing strongly with our president,” Pence said, noting that many Americans have different perspectives on Trump. But, he said, Trump believes in the greatness of America and Americans.
“If you need a president who remains silent when our legacy is demoted or insulted, he is your man. “
Pence’s confrontation followed a tight line. Or he affirmed Trump’s tendency to create divisions, but praised his boss for fulfilling his promises.
Pence made his statements at the conference at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, in 1812 at the center of the defense of the young nation opposed to Britain. The position encouraged Francis Scott Key to write what has become the national anthem.
Pence, a history buff who constantly takes notes for speeches, still refines his previous comments this week.
But policy experts said they hoped the speech would have issues similar to those given by the pennies in July in Ripon, Wisconsin, the city that played a role in forming the Republican Party to combat slavery.
There, Pence argued that Republicans are freedom and opportunity, while Democrats will mark the beginning of socialism and decline.
“I heard the other day that democracy is at the polls,” Pence told delegates in North Carolina on Monday. “We all know that the economy is in the polls. Law and order are at the polls. Our most beloved ideals of freedom and the relaxed market are in the role of the survey ».
On Wednesday, he used his highlight to congratulate Trump’s military and foreign policy initiatives. He also reiterated the administration’s enforcement of the law, while continually condemning Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as a radical who will lead the country toward socialism and ruin.
Pence won some of the loudest applause of the night as he headed to national protests in cities across the country in recent months.
“Violence will have to stop,” Pence said, “We will have law and order on the streets of this country. “
Pence’s speech comes when protests against the police shooting of black Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, have turned violent. On Wednesday, Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested on suspicion of shooting two other people and injuring a third party on Tuesday night.
“Riots and looting are not nonviolent manifestations. Killing statues is not an inaccurate speech, and those who do will be prosecuted with all the rigor of the law,” Pence said.
Then he added: “We’re not going to the police. Not now. I’ve never noticed anything like it. “
As expected, Pence sought to oppose rhetoric about the Trump administration’s reaction to the new coronavirus pandemic, which has been widely criticized.
He said Trump had boldly acted to prevent China’s United States and “launched the largest national mobilization since World War II,” to combat the pandemic.
Pence also noted that the United States “currently conducts more than 800,000 tests consistently with the day” and that the administration has coordinated the delivery of millions of non-public teams.
Pence juxtaposed the Trump administration’s handling of the economy with the ongoing pandemic, noting that the president’s policies have poised the country for a strong economic return.
According to an article previously published earlier this month on MarketWatch, the U. S. economy recovered 42% of the 22. 2 million jobs lost in March and April.
Pence, who was hired through Trump to lead America’s reaction to the coronavirus, first of all generated smart complaints about the leadership of its working group. He worked hard with governors even when Trump attacked them. He has shown empathy for those who suffer and deference to them. scientists such as Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
But as the Trump administration wanted the economy to recover, Pence took a positive view that has not been shown through progress through the pandemic in recent months.
In April, he said the country “would have much of this coronavirus outbreak until Memorial Day. “In June, Pence said in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that “there was no momentary wave of coronavirus. “
When asked last week if his statements were false, Pence told more than one TV interviewer that everyone had “learned along the way. “
Pence’s optimism was shown Wednesday night.
A vaccine, he said, is on and coming soon.
“Last week, Joe Biden said no miracles happened,” Pence said. “What Joe Biden doesn’t seem to perceive is that America is a country of miracles. “
He added: “We are on our way to having the world’s first coronavirus vaccine until the end of this year. “
Pence has played the role of party optimist and Trump animator in the RNC. On Tuesday night, the show featured Pence in a video he previously shot earlier this month in Spencer, Indiana.
Titled “Lincoln,” the nine-minute clip shows Pence interacting with Americans at the National Monument to the Childhood of Abraham Lincoln. Each describes how the Trump administration’s policies have helped them.
Among those: Jordan McLinn, an Indianapolis kid fighting Duchenne muscular dystrophy, who has one of the faces of Indiana’s “right to try” law, which gives others with life-threatening illnesses greater access to experimental drugs.
Trump signed a national edition in 2018.
“If President Trump were there, what would he say about the right to try?”Pence asks Jordan.
The child responds timidly: “Thank you for being a hero to everyone in the country. “
Pence, who was governor of Indiana when he emerged from the relative political darkness in 2016 to serve on the national ballot, noted a night of confrontation at the convention.
On Wednesday night, other key speakers included Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, Karen Pence, Members of the Republican Senate and House, Congressional candidates, Trump advisers and police officers.
The acceptance speech to Trump’s White House nomination closes Thursday night.
USA Today Maureen Groppe and David Jackson.