WASHINGTON – Melania Trump expresses her sympathy for COVID-19-affected families, an “invisible enemy,” she says, who has challenged the United States but has come together.
In her prime-time address at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, the first girl said she had “been moved by the way Americans combined in such an unknown and terrifying situation.”
She says her husband will “rest until he does his best” to involve the “invisible enemy” of the coronavirus epidemic.
Ms. Trump also spoke of the “beautiful aspect of humanity” she has observed in the wake of herbal errors across the country, noting that a common thread “is the unwavering determination to help others.”
The first girl spoke from the newly renovated rose garden, where her husband in the center of the audience met to hear her comments.
The seats in the public were separated by approximately 2 feet, not the minimum of 6 feet that doctors had to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Most members of the family and friends circle segment did not wear masks.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TUESDAY’S REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION:
– Melania Trump’s Night: The First republican convention
– Pompeo warned diplomats to politics; is going to communicate with RNC
– Trump’s doesn’t fit with Biden’s; president salutes CNN
A teen from the 2019 rally video in Washington to tackle RNC
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HERE’S THE MOST THAT’S HAPPENING:
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo immersed himself in the center of the 2020 presidential race with a speech on President Donald Trump’s re-election at the Republican National Convention.
The speech was recorded in Jerusalem, an official stopover in the Middle East and broadcast Tuesday at the RNC.
The speech was categorically condemned through Democrats and others as a violation out of decades of diplomatic precedent and an imaginable violation of federal law that prohibits executive workers from showing political activism while on duty. Pompeo himself did not remind State Department officials of the restrictions until last month.
But while the venue and audience were normal and perhaps problematic, the content of Pompeo’s about four-minute speech would not have moved in several of his past public appearances, either at home or abroad.
Pompeo uttered popular recitations of the GOP’s claims about Trump’s “United States First” foreign policy successes opposed to Russia, China, and Iran. He said they had made their circle of relatives and all Americans safer. He spoke of the defeat of the Islamic State’s physical caliphate, Trump’s pro-Israel calendar, and the president’s vigilance in our minds to protect us from the “predatory aggression” of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Kentucky Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron has said the black electorate is not monolithic, as Joe Biden has suggested, and urges others to support him in supporting President Donald Trump.
Cameron, Kentucky’s first black attorney general, told the camera directly: “Mr. Vice President, look at me. I’m black. We’re not all the same, sir. I’m not chained. My brain is mine. And you can’t tell me how to vote for the color of my skin.”
National polls show that Biden enjoys the help of the vast majority of black voters, Cameron rebuked the Democratic presidential nominee for saying in an interview in May that if a black voter is undecided, “you’re not black.”
Cameron has been the subject of a public review for his shooting death of Breonna Taylor, a black woman, who was shot dead at home through Louisville police in March. Activists have suggested to Cameron that he presses opposite fees on the officials involved in his murder.
Cameron spoke briefly about Taylor, but in terms of a national protest over the death of blacks at the hands of the police that fueled months of protests, marches and violence.
“It’s General Dwight Eisenhower, the long-term Republican president, who said, “Democracy is a formula that recognizes the equality of human beings before the law,” Cameron says. “Whether it is part of the circle of relatives of Breonna Taylor or David Dorn, it is ideals that will heal the wounds of our nations.”
Cameron was referring to Dorn, a retired 77-year-old black police captain from St. Louis, who was shot dead during looter protests following the murder of George Floyd through Minneapolis police in May.
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President Donald Trump organized a rite of naturalization at the White House in a video released Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf swore five other people to Trump’s eyes.
Later, Trump welcomed them to the “big American family” and congratulated them by saying, “It’s okay.
He said to them, “You followed the rules, obeyed the laws, learned their history, embraced our values, and showed that you were whole men and women.
He says “there is no honor or privilege” to be an American citizen.
The new U.S. citizens were from Bolivia, Lebanon, India, Sudan and Ghana.
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A granddaughter of the evangelist Billy Graham said President Donald Trump was the only option for religious voters, adding that the Democratic price ticket “left them no place.”
Cissie Graham Lynch described Obama’s management as a management in which devout freedoms were “being attacked.” But with Trump’s election, Lynch said that “believers had a fierce lawyer in the White House,” raising the appointment of judges “who respect the First Amendment.”
Lynch spoke Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention. She says that “Biden-Harris’s for America leaves no room for believers.”
Later, Trump’s daughter, Tiffany, attributed a litany of characteristics to her father’s supporters, saying, “We are free of faith for all denominations.”
Trump has courted devout voters to paint Democrats as a risk to devout freedom. Evangelicals for Trump organizes weekly prayer calls. Vice President Mike Pence, a reborn Christian with great delight in the alliance with other conservative evangelicals, participated in a faith-centered excursion in several states on the battlefield.
The crusade also courted the Roman Catholic electorate and practitioners of other denominations.
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Vice President Mike Pence is the star of a video released at the Republican National Convention on the Stories of Six Americans whose lives were aided through the Trump administration.
The nine-minute video, titled “Lincoln,” was filmed last week at President Abraham Lincoln’s training years home in Lincoln City, Indiana. Pence paid tribute to Lincoln, the first Republican president, before having casual conversations with Americans.
Pastor Aaron Johnson praised President Donald Trump for the opportunity, and Judge Cheryl Allen, the first black woman to be elected to the Pennsylvania Superior Court, lobbied her confidence that Trump was committed to improving minority communities.
Jordan McLinn, who suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, thanked Trump for signing the federal “Right to Try” act in 2018.
Jack Hughes and his mother, Sarah, talk about how they used school vouchers for Jack in a parish school that best covered his learning needs.
And Lidia Brodine, a naturalized American from Honduras, explains how the paycheck coverage program helped her prevent her family’s new security business from collapsing once she hit the pandemic.
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A Kentucky teenager known for the video of his interaction with a Native American who dueled at the protests at the Lincoln Memorial says the country will have to unite around a president “calling the media.”
Nicholas Sandmann attacked the media Tuesday night at the time of the Republican National Convention and claimed that no one had suffered more than an unfair media policy than President Donald Trump.
Sandmann said dressing up in a “Make America Great Again” cap has made it a target for data networks and cable networks.
Sandmann was one of Covington Catholic High School academics in Park Hills, participating in an anti-abortion march in Washington in January 2019. Images of his interaction with Nathan Phillips, who was participating in a separate demonstration of Native American rights, spread widely online.
Sandmann and Phillips later said they were seeking to ease tensions between three separate teams that took part in the two protests. Video of the attack showed Sandmann and Phillips very close to each other, Sandmann watching and smiling at Phillips as Phillips sang and played drums.
Sandmann then settled the lawsuits against CNN and the media.
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A Wisconsin milk producer thanks President Donald Trump for his help and says dairy production is “coming back into effect,” which is not the case with many other producers in the crucial state of November.
Cris Peterson told the Republican National Convention Tuesday that Trump had helped milk producers suffering to milk casualties in 2016, in a component through “negotiating new deals with the industry.”
However, in 2018 alone, about 700 Wisconsin dairy farms went bankrupt, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics, a trend accompanied by a wave of farmer suicides.
Factors included the renegotiated industrial pact with Mexico and Canada, which blocked the export of a type of express milk to Canada that is an integral component of cheese processing. The provision harms farmers, that is, in southwestErn Wisconsin, a fabricated domain where Democrats have since won.
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A speaker who was scheduled to speak at the night of the Republican National Convention got rid of the lineup after directing his Twitter fans to a series of anti-Semitic and conspiratorial messages.
Trump’s crusade spokesman Tim Murtaugh said: “We’ve removed the scheduled video from the convention schedule and it will no longer air this week.
Mary Ann Mendoza was scheduled to deliver a speech Tuesday night to highlight the president’s fight against illegal immigration. Mendoza’s son died in a head-on collision in 2014 through a guy who was under the influence and who lived illegally in the United States.
She and other parents whose children were illegally killed through others in the country have been classified as “angel moms” and have made common appearances at the White House and in the Trump campaign events.
Mendoza had apologized for the tweet, writing that he had “retwitated a very long thread before without reading all the articles in the thread” and said that it “reflected my non-public emotions or thoughts.”
A Republican familiar with the plans he spoke on under anonymity cited the controversy as an explanation for why he shot Mendoza. The Republican did not allow public talk on the issue.
– AP writers Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin
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An anti-abortion activist scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention has in the past advocated for anything called “home voting,” saying wives depend on their husbands to make policy-related decisions.
Abby Johnson is scheduled to face the RNC on Tuesday, the time of the virtual meeting.
In May, Johnson wrote on Twitter that he would “support the family vote rollback,” and then explained that if the spouses disagreed, “they would have to vote. In a pious house, the husband would have the last word.
Johnson worked in the past for Planned Parenthood, fitting an abortion opponent after saying she gave up years ago after a 13-week pregnant woman’s abortion.
He founded a ministry that insisted that abortion clinic workers quit their jobs, and a film based on his life story released last year.
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President Donald Trump has apologized for a Nevada guy convicted of bank crime as part of the republican National Convention’s programming time.
In a video expected to air Tuesday night, Trump says Jon Ponder’s story is a “beautiful testament to the strength of redemption.” Ponder now runs a program in Las Vegas that helps former prisoners reintegrate into society, called Hope for Prisoners.
Trump has touted unscrupulous justice reform because of his knowledge of black and evangelical voters.
The White House released a pardon video the previous Tuesday, in which the president signed the document in front of Ponder and his wife.
The retired FBI agent who arrested Ponder and became one of his friends also appears to be with Trump and Ponder.
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A Republican candidate in the Georgia Congress who supports the QAnon conspiracy theory and congratulated President Donald Trump on his first guest win to the Republican National Convention.
Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a photo of the invitation on her Twitter account on Tuesday. She wrote that she was “honored and extremely happy to be invited to attend President Trump’s acceptance speech Thursday night at the White House.”
A user familiar with Greene’s invitation says it is legitimate. The user is not legal to speak publicly about the matter and spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Trump congratulated Greene as a “future Republican star” after winning his number one this month. He courted the believers of QAnon, saying, “I have heard that these are other people who love our country.”
Other Republicans, in addition to Vice President Mike Pence and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, have rejected the conspiracy theory, which focuses on an alleged high-ranking anonymous government official known as the “Q” that stores data about a “deep state” anti-Trump. connected to Satanism and child sex trafficking.
– Zeke Miller, writer of AP
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Democrats on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are advancing his speech at the Republican National Convention in Jerusalem.
An aide to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who worked for the State Department, Pompeo’s speech on Tuesday was “frankly disgraceful.” Assistant Bill Russo says it’s “an abuse of taxpayers’ money.”
Another Biden DEPUTY, Kate Bedingfield, called Pompeo a “career boy” from President Donald Trump and said he had a record of “repeated and flagrant use of his own for openly political ends.”
Secretaries of state travel abroad on behalf of the U.S. administration’s agenda, but Pompeo’s speech at a party conference on foreign soil is an atypical case.
Russo called in Pompeo’s explanation that he will face republican conference in non-public time. Russo points out that the speech remains part of the “official journey” and that taxpayer cash “took him there” and “pays for his protection” and for “the ground” with him.
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and says Pompeo’s resolution “violates his own policy.” Booker referred to the “memorandums and instructions” Pompeo recently sent to the workers in his department.
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