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First lady Melania Trump appeared on the night cover of the time of the Republican conference with a speech at the newly revamped White House Rose Garden, opening her statements recognizing the coronavirus pandemic and the devastation and anxiety she has across the country.
“I need to recognize that since March, our lives have changed dramatically. The invisible enemy COVID-19 swept our beautiful country and touched us all,” he said. “My deepest condolences are conveyed to all who have lost joy and my prayers pass to those who are in poor health or who suffer.”
“I know that many other people are worried and some feel powerless. I need you to know. You’re not alone,” he continued. “My husband’s management won’t prevent fights until there’s an effective remedy or a vaccine for everyone.”
Are the trees gone?: Melania Trump didn’t remove the cherry trees, the historic roses of Rose Garden
Trump’s tribute to women’s suffrage and the centenary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as a component of the campaign’s broader effort to appeal to the women’s voter bloc. A recent ABC/Washington Post vote found that Joe Biden leads Trump from 56% to 40% in favor of women.
“I’ve been thinking about the effect women’s voices will have on our nation’s history and how proud I’ll be voting for Donna in November,” she said. “We want to make sure women are listened to. And may the American Dream continue to thrive.”
The first lady’s speech is her biggest prime-time speech since the 2016 Republican convention, where she was accused of plagiarism after parts of her speech closely resembled parts of a 2008 speech through Michelle Obama.
Then a Trump Organization worker issued a duty for the similarities.
Most of the time, Trump has stayed out of politics’s climax while her husband has campaigned in recent months, but has used the fight to highlight his favorite moments as first lady.
It also gave him the opportunity to provide the renovations he oversaw in the rose garden, but without controversy. Speaking from the Rose Garden, which is part of the official White House, he raised moral questions about whether this blurred the line between the government and the president’s re-election campaign.
She also spoke of her pleasure in coming to the United States from Slovenia, even as her husband sought to curb legal and illegal immigration.
Trump said that fitting in a citizen “is one of the proudest moments of my life, because with harsh paintings and determination, I was able to realize my own American dream.”
“As an immigrant and very independent woman. I sense the privilege we have,” he said. “There are no words to describe how revered and fortunate I am to serve our country as first lady.”
– Courtney Subramanian
Speaking from Israel while traveling through official government affairs, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Trump had “led ambitious projects in almost every corner of the world” to achieve some peace and “keep us and our freedoms intact.”
“It probably wouldn’t have made it popular in all foreign capitals, but it worked,” Pompeo said, protecting Trump’s “America First” foreign policy that alienated classic American allies, even when Trump courted foreign adversaries. He recorded his comments on a scale in Jerusalem, as a component of a four-country diplomatic project for the region.
The State Department said Pompeo spoke in a non-public capacity and not as the U.S. diplomatic chief. But Pompeo talked about political decisions.
His successes included China’s responsibility “to cover up the Chinese virus,” the assassination of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the temperature reduction with North Korea, the departure of the “disastrous nuclear deal with Iran” and the move of the US embassy to “this.” same city of God, Jerusalem, the valid capital of the Jewish homeland.”
In 2017, Trump fulfilled his election promise to break decades of U.S. foreign policy and move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The move, along with other pro-Israel policies, helped push Trump among evangelical voters, a key constituency for the Republican Party.
Pompeo’s comments violated the State Department’s own diplomatic protocol and policy on partisan political activity.
Before speaking, Rep. Joaquín Castro, a senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, opened an investigation into Pompeo’s decision, saying he had “a bratant disregard” for ethical regulations and “a bratant preference for violating federal law for political purposes.”
– Maureen Groppe and Deirdre Shesgreen
Eric Trump, Trump’s third eldest son, has joined a list of parents who have spoken or are expected to speak at the Republican convention. He used his comments to mark a list of his father’s accomplishments and echoed his brother, Donald Trump Jr., portraying a Joe Biden presidency as “the empty, oppressive and radical prospects of the left.”
“It’s a career that never comes across a check and knows nothing about the American employee or the American company,” Trump said.
Like his brother, Eric Trump falsely claimed that Biden sought to disband the police, a call from some on the left to move public resources from law enforcement to social systems and public protection alternatives. Biden said he did not oversaw the investment and instead asked for more investment for local police forces.
Eric Trump completed his comments by speaking directly to his father, saying he lacked “working with you every day, but I’m proud to be on the front line of this fight.”
Tiffany Trump, the fourth and least visual of the president’s five children, filed a scathing complaint from the country’s media, generation corporations, and even the school formula to sell what she described as a “group thought” that opposes the president.
“People want to recognize that our thoughts, reviews and even the selection of those we vote for can be manipulated and restricted invisibly through the media and giants of the generation,” said Tiffany Trump, a Georgetown Law graduate this year. “If you stick to the media, you get one opinion skewed or another.”
Trump’s family circle was heavily represented at the time of the conference at a tricky time: the president’s brother died of an unhealed illness on August 15. President Trump was also forced to fight a critical e-book written through his niece, Mary Trump, and recorded the audio of his sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, tearing him apart with “imposture” and “lying.”
However, there is little sign of Tuesday’s crash.
Tiffany Trump implored Americans to see “beyond the facade – the mask – used by so many other politicians” and suggested to the electorate “make their judgments about the effects and on rhetoric.”
– John Fritze and Courtney Subramanian
Combining two key criminal justice messages directed through President Donald Trump, the Republican conference focused Tuesday on an Albuquerque police officer who followed the bathroom of a woman addicted to heroin.
Ryan Holets recalled an incident in 2017 in which he approached a pregnant woman who was preparing to inject heroin. The woman confessed that she was looking for a circle of relatives to adopt her baby.
“God showed me exactly what I had to do,” Holets said. “Without hesitation, I told her that my circle of relatives would adopt her baby.”
The story touched on several vital issues for Trump: first, the president promoted the importance of surveillance in communities, even when some departments have been criticized for high-level murderous interactions with black citizens.
The story also addressed a challenge Trump discussed: the development of opioid addiction in the United States. Trump signed several executive orders on the issue, and management worked to decrease the number of opioids prescribed by doctors.
“I have a special position at my center for those facing opioid addiction,” Holets said. “That’s why I’m incredibly grateful to the president for his leadership in combating this mortal enemy.”
– John Fritze
Florida Deputy Governor Jeanette Nunez, the first Latina to hold office in state history, suggested electorate to President Donald Trump to make an “America First” economic policy and a devout freedom.
“Let’s sign for our president on his promise that America will never be a socialist country,” said Núñez, whose parents fled Cuba from Fidel Castro. “He defended our devout freedom, supported democratic allies like Colombia, and showed unwavering determination while fighting tyrants in countries such as Venezuela, Cuba, China and Nicaragua.”
She said Trump would enforce the law. She said he would struggle to provide the highest quality education while preserving school selection.
“Americans have a choice,” Núñez said. “We can take a dark path of chaos and government control, or we can follow the path of freedom and opportunity that has opened up through those who sacrificed everything to maintain the American dream for generations over the long term.”
– Bart Jansen
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds credits President Donald Trump for helping his state prevent devastating floods and storms.
When the centuries-old floods violated nearly every dam and devastated communities along the Missouri River in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri last year, Trump approved his request for federal assistance in record time, just two days ago, Reynolds said.
And when a typhoon called right, with hurricane-force winds of up to 140 km/h, destroyed millions of acres of crops just two weeks ago, Trump approved the state’s request for assistance in case of crisis in less than 24 hours, he said.
Trump “supported us,” Reynolds, a Republican and Trump supporter.
“The president went through the bureaucracy to do what had to be done and do it fast,” he said.
Iowa is expected to be a key state on the battlefield in the November election. Trump took the state in 2016 through nearly 9.5 percent of issues. But the ballots show it in a tight race with the democratic challenger Joe Biden this year. Trump takes Biden through just 1.7 percentage points in The Real Clear Politics state voting average.
– Michael Collins
Surprisingly, the indictment against President Donald Trump was discussed Tuesday at the Republican convention.
Unsurprisingly, a Republican lawyer used it for Joe Biden.
Former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, who helped Trump’s political trial, used her speech to attack Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, for his business in Ukraine.
“Joe Biden says he’s going to rebuild better,” Bondi said in a moment. “YeahArray … we’re going to build Biden’s back better.”
Bondi did not provide evidence that Hunter Biden’s commercial activity in Ukraine was illegal or that Biden himself had acted inappropriately.
Democrats temporarily pointed out that Trump had been accused of pressuring Ukraine to investigate Biden, despite a lack of evidence, and for threatening to refuse army help if he did not act.
Steve Schmidt, a former Republican and now Trump’s opponent, tweeted that Bondi is “ethically challenged” and “lies over Biden’s circle of relatives and repeats the speech problems of Russian intelligence.”
Bondi has an appointment with Trump, first as a confidant of his days as attorney general, and then as one of the attorneys who defended the president in the previous Senate case trial this year.
He also faced a strong complaint in 2013 when a Trump base sent his crusade a check for $25,000 when his workplace did not sign up for a New York state investigation into court cases of clients opposed trump University. Bondi has continually stated that the donation had nothing to do with a resolution made by independent researchers in his workplace not to continue the investigation.
– David Jackson
QAnon’s conspiracy theory came to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday.
Shortly before the start of programming night, Mary Ann Mendoza got rid of RNC programming after retweating the previous day an anti-Semitic Twitter feed related to QAnon’s conspiracy theory.
Mendoza tweeted “Do yourself a favor and read this thread,” referring to a long thread of a QAnon conspiracy theorist who claimed that the Rothschilds, a well-known Jewish circle of relatives in Germany, had created a plan to terrorize the “goyim.” -Jews – by having “the goyim are destroying themselves” and “stealing the Goyim from their land”.
Savannah Behrmann
Larry Kudlow, the White House’s wisest economic adviser, says the U.S. economy is recovering from the coronavirus pandemic thanks to “a great bipartisan bailout” led by President Donald Trump.
A tax increase would halt the recovery, he warned.
The coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 178,000 Americans, has had a catastrophic effect on the U.S. economy since March. An incredible 57.3 million employees have been deployed for unemployment in the last 22 weeks. Just two weeks ago, about 1.1 million Americans were deployed for unemployment for the first time, the Department of Labor said, noting that the recovery will remain volatile.
But Kudlow took a positive tone in his comments at the Republican National Convention.
“Americans are getting back to work,” Kudlow said. “There’s a real real estate boom. There’s an auto boom, a production boom, a spending boom.”
Looking ahead, the Trump administration is planning more tax cuts and regulatory relief for small businesses, Kudlow said.
“Our economic selection is very clear,” Kudlow said. “Do you need economic prosperity and optimism, or do you need to return to the dark days of stagnation, recession, and pessimism? There can be no greater economic policies than we have in the last few years.”
– Michael Collins
Republicans are organizing the time of the Republican conference to carry a message about Democrat Joe Biden, saying his administration would raise taxes temporarily, from day one.
“Are you coming out of a pandemic and he needs to raise taxes?” Larry Kudlow, one of President Donald Trump’s wisest economic advisers, asked. I said, “It’s crazy.”
This was a topic that was raised several times during the night.
John Peterson, owner of a metallurgical company, said Biden was “ready to raise taxes, to overwhelm us with regulations.” Senator Rand Paul, Republican for Kentucky, said Trump is the electorate’s nominee “who needs to cut taxes.”
Biden has promised to repeal Trump’s approved tax cuts at the beginning of his presidency, but for those who earn the most, those who earn more than $400,000, as well as for businesses. If elected, Biden would like Congress to oppose tax cuts, a resolution that is not expected to take a stand on the first day.
John Fritze
Abby Johnson, an anti-abortion activist for opposing Planned Parenthood after running for a clinic manager, has touted President Donald Trump’s anti-abortion agenda.
“For me, abortion is real. I know what it looks like; I know how abortion smells. Did you know that abortion even smells like that? I was the one with those babies, those women,” Johnson said Tuesday.
Johnson, of the “Unplanned” memoir, which also adapted to a film, told the story of witnessing an abortion that replaced his attitude about the factor while wearing a “1972” pin to symbolize the year before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion. .
“I left the clinic, back only to remind myself why I now advocate so passionately for life,” she said.
He praised Trump for appointing conservative Supreme Court justices who would defend pro-life ideals and for taking away the federal budget for clinics proposing abortions.
“Life is a basic precept of who we are as Americans,” Johnson said. “And this election is a selection between two radical anti-life activists and the ultimate pro-life president we’ve ever had. It’s anything that pushes you into action.”
Johnson has been criticized for several questionable views. Vice reported Tuesday that he had stated in a video that he found it “smart” that the police were “on high alert” when they interact with their biracial son than with their white children because “statistically, my dark son is more likely to dedicode a violent offense opposed to my white children.”
Johnson’s recent tweets also show that she supports the right to vote for heads of households, which would only allow a representative of a family to vote than every adult citizen. “In a pious house, the husband would have the last word, ” he said.
In a tweet before his appearance on the RNC on Tuesday, Johnson accused activists of the right to abortion of being afraid of their speech and “fighting to find something that distracts others from my message.”
—Jeanine Santucci
Nicholas Sandmann, the student in the midst of a media storm, suggested president Donald Trump electorate Tuesday for refusing to allow media policy to “create a narrative rather than report the facts.”
“I want to hire a president who challenges the media to return to target journalism,” Sandmann, 18, said before putting on a red “Make America Great Again” cap. “It’s the struggle for courage. It’s the vote for courage. That’s what President Donald Trump stands for.”
Sandmann’s media policy took place in January 2019, when northern Kentucky teen observed the elderly Native American Nathan Phillips, who played the drum. A viral video of the moment broadcast several times in cable news and reported in the newspapers.
Sandmann, then a student at Covington Catholic High School, attended a March for Life. Phillips was taking part in a march of Aboriginal peoples. Sandmann said the unfair policy of the occasion replaced his life in an instant without reporters asking him about his appearance of the story or investigating Phillips’ motives.
“What I thought was a strange encounter that temporarily became a main story with video footage,” Sandmann said of his portrait of a child smiling in a red hat due to Trump’s opposition to abortion. “My life was replaced at that time. The entire mass warfare device of the mainstream media has entered attack mode.”
Sandmann sued CNN for $275 million, claiming the network had maligned him, such as the Washington Post. It reached unreleased regulations in January.
In March, Sandmann sued five media outlets and added Gannett, the parent company of USA TODAY.
“I found out that what happened to me had a name. It was called being cancelled. As canceled. As revoked. Like in nothing,” Sandmann said. “Many are dismissed, humiliated or even threatened. Media is often a voluntary participant. But they wouldn’t cancel me.
– Bart Jansen
Cissie Graham Lynch, daughter of evangelist Franklin Graham and granddaughter of the mythical preacher Billy Graham, hailed President Donald Trump as a “staunch advocate in the White House” of believers who defended devout freedoms who were “attacked” by the Obama administration.
“Our founders did not imagine a discreet and hidden religion. They fought for the voices of religion to be welcome and not silenced. No intimidation,” he says. “But under the Obama-Biden administration, those freedoms were attacked.”
The president seeks to consolidate with conservative Christians and white evangelicals who helped him win in 2016, but his approval score among devout teams has plummeted in recent months. A Pew Research Center poll last month found that 59% of white evangelicals say they approve “very strongly” of Trump, 8 issues less than in April. But the poll also revealed that 82 percent would still vote for it if the elections were held in July.
Graham Lynch, whose father is scheduled to speak Thursday, said Trump-appointed judges who “respect the First Amendment” have defended devoted ideals in court and “ensured that devout ministries are forced to violate their ideals.”
He added that there was “no position for believers” in the Biden administration, although the former vice president occasionally spoke of how his Catholic religion helped him kill his first wife and daughter in a car accident of fate in 1972, as well as the death of his son in 2015.
“Whether you’re a baker, florist or a football coach, you’ll be forced to obey God or Caesar,” he said. “Because the god of the radical left is the force of government.”
Graham Lynch’s comments came hours after Jerushah Duford, Billy Graham’s other granddaughter, wrote a ruthless rebuke from Trump and his uncle Franklin Graham for their relationship with the president. Duford, who wrote in the United States TODAY that his religion and his church have become “a source of laughter,” called on evangelical Christians to denounce Trump’s actions.
– Courtney Subramanian
Breaking with the terrible message of “socialism” and the “Loch Ness” monsters that ruled the RNC’s first night, Republicans followed a softer tone on Tuesday, at least in the first few minutes, before Melania Trump’s first speech.
“He keeps his promises, ” said Jason Joyce, Maine lobster.
“More than any president in my life, he the importance of farmers and agriculture,” said dairy farmer Chris Peterson.
At the top notable example of the change, Trump briefly gave the impression at a recorded appearance at the White House and signed a pardon to Jon Ponder, founder of Hope For Prisoners, a Las Vegas-based organization that is helping former inmates reintegrate into society. . Training
The occasion caught the attention of Democrats, some of whom questioned the president’s use of an official act in a political convention, but focused more on the president’s accomplishments than what Republicans see as Biden’s failures.
“Today I am full of hope, ” said Ponder. “They gave me a chance for the time being.”
– John Fritze
Jason Joyce, an eighth-generation lobster from Swan’s Island, Maine, said he was not president of Donald Trump in 2016 because he was hoping the president would “revoke his crusade promises.”
But Joyce strongly supports Trump’s re-election this year because the president has listened to the fishermen’s perspectives and followed them. In contrast, Joyce called on Obama management and former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, to forget about the industry’s prospects.
“As long as Trump is president, the families of fishermen like mine will have a voice,” Joyce said. “But if Biden wins, he will be controlled by environmental extremists who will circumvent long-standing regulations and impose radical adjustments that damage our coastal communities.”
Trump has been selling Maine lobster from a June 5 roundtable in Bangor. He overruled the Obama administration’s order banning five, 000 miles of ocean fishing for what is known as the Northeast Canyons marine national monument and Seamounts.
“This action is deeply unfair to Maine’s locusts,” Trump said.
The monument is about 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod, too far for Mainers to succeed in it. And Obama granted acquired rights to the lobster and crab fishery for seven years in the 2016 ordinance, so fisheries have not yet been affected. But the resolution has annoyed the fishermen.
Although Maine’s locusts don’t fish there, Obama’s executive order has us off. This has overlooked the contribution of fishing consultants,” Joyce said. “President Trump reversed this decision, re-establishing regulations that allow stakeholder participation, and supports a procedure that seeks and respects fishermen’s prospects.”
Lobster is a valuable seafood market, with 133 million pounds landed in 2017 worth approximately $600 million, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service. The Mainers landed more than 80% of U.S. lobster fishing. That year.
But industrial wars have shattered the industry. The European Union agreed Friday to raise price lists of 8% in US lobster and 20% on lobster products, which harmed the Canadian lobster industry that was not included in the price lists.
China also imposed a tariff on the U.S. lobster in 2018, which is now at least 35%. Trump has requested monthly reports on the Chinese tariff from August 15.
Joyce strongly supports Trump’s re-election.
“When he sees something bad, he’s not afraid to fix it,” Joyce said. “Listen to the workers.”
– Bart Jansen
Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican known for his anti-interventionist view of global affairs, praised Trump’s technique of “ending the war to start one,” seeking to paint a stark contrast between the president and Joe Biden when it comes to making the planet. safer.
“I’m worried that Biden will decide on the war again. He supported the war in Serbia, Syria and Libya. Joe Biden will continue to spread our blood and our treasure. President Trump will bring our heroes home,” said Paul, who has joined the president in calling for an end to the U.S. military’s involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“If you hate war like I hate warArray … If you need us to avoid sending $50 billion each year to Afghanistan to build its roads and bridges instead of building them here at home, you have to send President Trump for some other period. “
Trump has touted his unconventional foreign policy strategy, his efforts to build bridges with authoritarian figures such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean despot Kim Jong-Un.
He also drew bipartisan fire to undermine nato alliance and remove flight troops from Syria, a move that led to the resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
Paul, who ran for the RNC in 2016, had some nasty words for Trump four years ago, when they were running for the White House. He called the billionaire businessman “a delusional narcissist and an orange-faced charlatan.” Trump, in turn, criticized Paul’s appearance and called him “a spoiled child without a well-functioning brain.”
– Ledyard King
Norma Urrabazo of the International Church in Las Vegas opened Tuesday’s occasions with a prayer of “healing and comfort” for Jacob Blake, the guy from Wisconsin who shot several times in the back through police officers on Sunday while leaning on a van.
“I will invite you to sign up for your religion in mine and pray for agreement,” Urrabazo said. “Lord, we come before you to ask that your spirit of peace come tonight to the suffering communities of Wisconsin.”
In addition to praying for Blake and his family, Urrabazo asked for the coverage of those who “put their lives at risk, to bring defense and security to our streets.”
– Maureen Groppe
Native Americans will constitute a small fraction of the electorate in November, however, they may have a disproportionate influence on the elections where it counts: several states on the battlefield.
So it was not unexpected for the RNC to open its moment at night with Myron Lizer, vice president of the Navajo Nation, a territory that covers parts of Utah, New Mexico and Arizona.
“Our other people have never been invited to the American dream,” said Lizer, who gave the impression of being with Trump on one occasion in Phoenix this year. “We fought for years in Congress with former congressmen and senators who were part of a damaged formula that ignored us.
“In other words, until President Trump takes office,” he said.
Lizer, in particular, highlighted billions of dollars in economic stimulus for tribal communities to fight COVID-19.
Trump had a confused relationship with local Americans. He repeated the use of the word “Pocahontas” to mock Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, offensive to some.
More recently, Trump criticized the resolution of the call of the NFL team in Washington, D.C., a word that is an insult to describe Native Americans.
According to the 2010 census, 5.2 million other people knew themselves as Native Americans and Alaska Natives alone, or mixed with at least one other race.
The vast majority vote for Democrats, in states where power is at the center of the regional economy, such as Alaska, North Dakota, or Oklahoma. Native Americans can also exist in Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, and Wisconsin.
John Fritze and Ledyard King
President Donald Trump used a “surprise appearance” at Tuesday’s Republican political conference to swear new U.S. citizens.
While some Trump analysts take official action at a political convention, the president oversaw the swearing-in of five new U.S. citizens born in Bolivia, Lebanon, India, Ghana, and Sudan.
“Congratulations – super party,” Trump told the organization in a video the White House broadcast hours before he broadcast the convention televised broadcast.
Noting that one of the new U.S. citizens has a degree in psychology, Trump said, “In other words, she may be me.”
While Trump used the rite to promote the virtues of legal immigration, Democrats said his vigorous border measures were designed to prevent those of color from entering.
Critics have said Trump does not make political use of the presidency at a political convention.
Ben Rhodes, a foreign adviser to President Barack Obama, tweeted that the Republican assembly “is imbued with the illegal and unethical use of everything from the White House to the power of presidential pardon.”
Prior to the immigration ceremony, Trump signed a federal pardon for Jon Ponder, founder of Hope For Prisoners, a Las Vegas-based organization that helps former inmates reintegrate into society.
“Jon’s life is a testament to the strength of redemption,” Trump said.
The state of Nevada had already granted a pardon to Ponder, a convicted thief.
Trump, who has made criminal justice reform a component of his agenda, praised Ponder’s paintings with former prisoners, did not mention the right to vote. The president opposed the recovery of the voting rights of criminals and criticized the governors as the idea.
Thanking Trump for his federal pardon, Ponder said “we’re in a country of opportunity at the moment.”
Richard Beasley, a retired FBI agent who once arrested Ponder but is now a friend, also gave the impression in the video, saying, “I’m so proud of Jon with the change in his life, and for all the lives he’s been in. change.”
Critics have said Trump’s use of the presidency at least violates the spirit of the Hatch Act, which prohibits government workers from engaging in political activities. (Presidents, however, are exempt from the law.)
“The Hatch Act is designed to separate politics from public service,” tweeted Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Barack Obama. “Those lines are erased tonight.”
In his break with political tradition, Trump makes evening appearances at the Republican convention.
That will come with your official acceptance speech on Thursday night.
Location: The White House.
– David Jackson
The first night of Monday’s Republican National Convention attracted an average of 15.9 million viewers, 29 percent less than it was four years ago and 15% less than the first night of last week’s Democratic National Convention.
This is well for 27% of the DNC Conference Night 1 audience, which averaged 18.7 million audiences. The opening night of the 2016 RNC conference in Cleveland, Ohio, attracted about 22.5 million viewers.
Nielsen figures, reported through Variety and the Los Angeles Times, mix audiences on the top 3 networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, and the new primary cable networks CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.
Fox News set the tone Monday in the lead with 7.1 million viewers through CNN’s 2 million viewers; ABC, almost 2 million; NBC, 1.7 million; MSNBC, 1.6 million; and CBS, 1.5 million.
Faced with the demanding situations of a global pandemic, any of the conventions has left the stages and live audiences in favor of recorded speeches and prepackaged videos. Democrats amassed four nights of two-hour television systems, while several Republican speakers shared the same level at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC, while President Donald Trump appeared in several videos filmed at the White House.
Although the DNC audience number last week was significantly reduced, the crusade by Democratic candidate Joe Biden featured a record virtual audience of 10.2 million, with a total of 28.9 million audience in total, combined with television audiences.
– Joey Garrison
At the time of night, the Republican National Convention will be personal.
Tuesday’s virtual lineup includes first girl Melania Trump and two of the president’s youth, Eric and Tiffany, as well as a number of businessmen, Republican advocates and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Melania Trump, rarely noticed on the way to the crusade with the president, will be the great attraction of the night. The first will speak in prime time from the newly renovated White House Rose Garden, a task he oversaw.
President Donald Trump himself is also expected to appear at the online conference on Tuesday. He plans to appear every single night this week, leading to his official acceptance speech on Thursday night, also at the White House.
– David Jackson
The war over who gets the credit for the pre-COVID economic recovery has a defining factor in this year’s conventions and presidential elections. Unsurprisingly, Democrats argued Tuesday that Joe Biden deserved much of the credits.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, speaking as a component of the RNC counterprogramming of Biden’s campaign, said Obama-Biden’s management had pulled the country out of the worst economic recession in generations. Trump, he said, has led that progress on the floor through his industrial wars and his random reaction to a pandemic.
“Donald Trump has seriously broken our country’s economy,” Whitmer said. “Workers and families can’t 4 more years.”
Trump and other Republicans have argued that the recovery under Obama, which marked a primary economic recovery in 2009, is one of the slowest in the country’s history. As signs of unemployment and the market progressed under Obama, they noticed the numbers took off at a faster pace once Trump reached the White House.
The debate is vital because any of the applicants are positioning themselves as the most productive able to help the country of the economic disaster caused by COVID-19.
Senator Cory Booker, D-N. J., he cited figures on how 1.5 million fewer jobs were created in the First 3 years of the Trump administration, compared to the last three years of the Obama administration. Booker also criticized Trump’s tax cut bill for profit while racking up huge federal budget deficits.
“We know that other people across New Jersey are suffering and in need of relief,” Booker said. “Working families know the president doesn’t look at them.”
– Bart Jansen and John Fritze