While talking about his policies and achievements in the last 4 years, President Donald Trump on Friday said that if re-elected he would impose tariffs on any company that leaves the United States to create jobs elsewhere.“We will impose tariffs on any company that leaves America to produce jobs overseas,” we’ll make sure our companies and jobs stay in our country, as I’ve already been doing. Joe Biden’s agenda is Made in China. My agenda is Made in the USA.” Keeping in tone with the rest of the Republican convention, President Donald Trump attacked Democratic rival Joe Biden and warned of a lawless and dangerous America if Biden becomes the president.
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As President Donald Trump criticised his rival at the White House, Biden struck back on Twitter, writing, “When Donald Trump says tonight you won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America, look around and ask yourself: How safe do you feel in Donald Trump’s America?” Criticizing Donald Trump for not doing enough to curb the coronavirus pandemic, Joe Biden said, “From the moment COVID-19 emerged, President Trump downplayed the threat it posed, refused to listen to the experts, and failed to take action to contain its spread. Now, we’re paying the price.”
Addressing a crowd of over 1,000 people at the White House, US President Donald Trump officially accepted the Republican presidential nomination and expressed his profound gratitude to the people. “My fellow Americans, tonight, with a heart full of gratitude and boundless optimism, I profoundly accept this nomination for president of the United States,” Trump said. Trump commenced his speech by acknowledging the “great progress” that has been made in the last “4 incredible years, and painted a picture of growth and optimism for the coming four years if elected.
Meanwhile, America’s first daughter Ivanka Trump in her speech introducing her father on the final day of Republican National Convention said that he is not a traditional politician who just blames the other side, but gets results. Echoing her father’s 2016 campaign motto, Ivanka started her speech by saying that Donald Trump came to Washington for one reason- “To Make America Great Again.” Ivanka like many other Republicans highlighted the “honesty” and “straightforwardness” for the 45th US president. “Whether you agree with him or not you know where he stands” Ivanka said. “I recognise that his communication style is not to everyone’s taste and his tweets can feel a bit unfiltered but the results speak for themselves.”
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As a weeklong Republican offensive against Joe Biden ends, the Democratic nominee plans to resume campaigning in swing states and has released a multimillion dollar barrage of ads attacking President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus.
The moves come as the presidential campaign barrels into the critical last 10 weeks. They represent a bet by Biden that a focus on COVID-19 will prevail over Trump’s “law and order” emphasis and his attempt to portray Biden as a tool of the “radical left.” Biden’s ads also celebrate the history of peaceful protests.(Read more here)
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Public health experts expressed concern Friday about President Donald Trump's largely mask-free, socially un-distanced Republican convention event at the White House. Experts say that some of his 1,500 guests may have inadvertently brought and spread the coronavirus to others.
Trump delivered his speech accepting the GOP presidential nomination at the Thursday night event, which continued a pattern of flouting coronavirus safety guidelines. Only a few in the audience wore masks when virtually all leading public health professionals say face coverings play a big part in slowing virus transmission.
Chairs were placed inches apart instead of the recommended 6 feet, leaving attendees little room to practice social distancing.
Only those guests the White House expected to be in "close proximity'' to Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were to be tested for COVID-19
Even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, many felt compelled to join civil rights advocates in Washington to highlight a scourge of police and vigilante violence that gave way to what many feel is an overdue reckoning on racial injustice. They gathered following another shooting by a white police officer of a Black man — this time, 29-year-old Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last Sunday — sparking demonstrations and violence that left two dead.
Former Vice President Joe Biden tweeted his support for the march.
Although President Donald Trump did not comment on the march Friday, the Republican National Committee marked the event’s anniversary by highlighting the president’s record as a “champion for the Black community.”
“While there is more work to be done, Donald Trump is the leader to make it happen,” Paris Dennard, an RNC senior communications advisor, said in a statement. (AP)
French President Emmanuel Macron hopes whoever wins the November vote is more of a global player. Macron’s comment comes a day after Trump's RNC speech in which he proudly celebrates getting out of the "expensive" 2015 Paris Climate Deal. Trump's unapologetic “America-first” foreign policy has frustrated historic allies like France as a result.
“What’s important in the international context is that we have a United States that can play its role as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, a member that is fully involved in big multilateral questions,” Macron told reporters Friday“We need the United States for resolving the most complex conflicts, and we need to have a United States that is a partner in collective security,” he said.(With AP inputs)
President Donald Trump refused to allow the coronavirus to deny him the crowd he craved for the Republican National Convention. He ordered up a scene never before seen at the White House: an American president using the South Lawn as the official backdrop for such overtly political activity.
The federal guidelines about keeping distance, avoiding crowds and wearing masks to fight the spread of the virus were emphatically ignored.
Here are some key takeaways from the last night of the convention: NO 'SHINING CITY ON A HILL' Trump made one thing abundantly clear in his speech accepting his party's renomination: He will try to turn political orthodoxy on its head again by trying to paint himself as an outsider even though he is the head of government. READ MORE
Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party's vice-presidential candidate, has blasted President Donald Trump for failing to protect the American people from the deadly coronavirus pandemic by being "fixated on the stock market" and caving in to China.
In a blistering speech hours before Trump delivered his acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention from the South Lawn at the White House, Harris alleged that the president's policies have been "a reckless disregard" for the danger a pandemic would pose to American lives. "Donald Trump has failed at the most basic and important job of a President of the United States. He failed to protect the American people. Plain and simple. Trump showed what we, in the legal profession, would call a reckless disregard for the well-being of the American people," Harris said.
A crowd of protesters surrounded US Sen Rand Paul as he was leaving the White House following the Republican National Convention early Friday, shouting for the legislator from Kentucky to acknowledge the shooting of Breonna Taylor.
Video posted on social media showed dozens of people confronting Paul and his wife, who were flanked by Metro Police, in a Washington street after midnight. Protesters could be heard shouting "No Justice No Peace" and "Say Her Name" before one appears to briefly clash with an officer, pushing him and his bike backward, sending the officer into Paul's shoulder.
Officers called for demonstrators to move backward and get on the sidewalk. Taylor's name has been a rallying cry among demonstrators during recent protests against racial inequality and police brutality. (AP)
Black Lives Matter activists are holding their first Black National Convention Friday, a virtual event that will adopt a political agenda calling for slavery reparations, universal basic income, environmental justice and legislation that entirely re-imagines criminal justice reform.
The gathering follows Democratic and Republican party conventions that laid out starkly different visions for America. It also comes on the heels of yet another shooting by a white police officer of a Black man - 29-year-old Jacob Blake - in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that sparked days of protests, unrest and violence.
And it comes on the same day as a commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington, where the families of an ever-growing list of police and vigilante violence victims will appear with civil rights leaders. (AP)
JUST IN: Two attendees and two event support staff have tested positive for coronavirus, reported Reuters.
Trump's speech which lasted for over 70 minutes was the longest nomination acceptance speech ever delivered by a presidential incumbent, the Guardian reported.
Donald Trump while talking about his policies and achievements in the last 4 years said that if re-elected he would impose tariffs on any company that leaves the United
States to create jobs elsewhere."We will impose tariffs on any company that leaves America to produce jobs overseas," we'll make sure our companies and jobs stay in our country, as I've already been doing. Joe Biden's agenda is Made in China. My agenda is Made in the USA." (With AP)
Trump promised that a coronavirus vaccine would be developed by the end of this year.“We will have a safe and effective vaccine this year, and together we will crush the virus,” the president said. Trump, who talked about the pandemic quite late in his speech said "the entire planet has been struck by a new and powerful invisible enemy. Like those brave Americans before us, we are meeting this challenge. We're delivering life-saving therapies. And we'll produce a vaccine before the end of the year, or maybe even sooner."
Trump called Biden a “destroyer of American jobs” and if elected in November he will become a “destroyer of American greatness”. “For 47 years, Joe Biden took the donations of blue-collar workers, gave them hugs and even kisses,” Trump said.
Continuing attacking his Democratic rival Joe Biden, Trump blamed him for the recent power blackouts in California amid an intense heatwave, "How can Joe Biden claim to be an ally of the light when his own party can’t even keep the lights on?”
As President Donald Trump attacked Biden during his speech at the White House, Biden struck back on Twitter, writing, "When Donald Trump says tonight you won't be safe in Joe Biden's America, look around and ask yourself: How safe do you feel in Donald Trump's America? Criticizing Donald Trump for not doing enough to curb the coronavirus pandemic, Joe Biden said, “From the moment COVID-19 emerged, President Trump downplayed the threat it posed, refused to listen to the experts, and failed to take action to contain its spread.Now, we’re paying the price.” “Donald Trump calls himself a wartime president. But now, instead of leading the charge to defeat this virus, he’s waved the white flag.He abandoned the American people when we needed him most,”he added.
President Donald Trump attacked Democratic rival Joe Biden and warned of a lawless and dangerous America if Biden becomes the president. “At no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies, or two agendas," Trump said. "This election will decide whether we save the American dream or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny, he added.
Painting a picture of optimism for the coming 4 years, Trump said that we will "again rebuild the greatest economy in history, quickly returning to full employment, soaring income and record prosperity.
US President Donald Trump expressed sympathy for the people affected by Hurricane Laura in Louisiana and lauded the efforts of authorities tackling the "worst hurricane in 150 years". Trump said that he would be visiting the gulf areas affected this weekend and congratulate the authorities in person.
Trump kick started his speech by expressing profound gratitude to the people and acknowledging the "great progress" that has been made in the last "4 incredible years,". He assured that he will continue to strive to build America better in the next 4 years to come.
The reason why Donald Trump is here and is the president is because of "you", Ivanka said as he promised that Trump will continue to serve the people for the next four years. "He doesn't settle for good, he settles for greatness" she added.
America’s first daughter Ivanka Trump in her speech to introduce her father said that he is not a traditional politician who just blames the other side, but gets results and implements what he says. Echoing her father’s 2016 campaign motto, Ivanka started her speech by saying that Donald Trump came to Washington for one reason- “to make America great again.” Ivanka like many other Republicans highlighted the “honesty” and “straightforwardness” for the 45th US president. “Whether you agree with him or not you know where he stands'' Ivanka said. “I recognise that his communication style is not to everyone's taste and his tweets can feel a bit unfiltered but the results speak for themselves.”
A top official in Michigan, a battleground U.S. election state, on Thursday condemned a computerized phone call campaign for using "racially charged stereotypes" to discourage voting by mail.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat and the state's top election official, posted on Twitter a recording of the robocall, in which a person made false claims that people who vote by mail could be subject to more scrutiny by police and by credit card companies seeking payment.
A total of 15.7 million people watched the third night of the mostly virtual Republican National Convention, according to early Nielsen Media Research, fewer than the 21.4 million viewers who watched the third night of the Democratic National Convention, according to comparable early numbers.
The 15.7 million RNC number reflects the audience across six TV networks between 10 p.m EDT and 11:15 p.m. EDT. It does not include online and streaming viewers. A total of 22.8 million people watched the third night of the virtual Democratic National Convention on 10 U.S. TV networks on Aug. 19. A comparable figure for the RNC is expected later on Thursday.
US presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris on Thursday denounced the looting and acts of violence that followed the police shooting of a Black man, as Republicans sought to paint the two Democrats as weak on crime.
Hoping to win a second term in November and trailing Biden in opinion polls, President Donald Trump has used this week’s Republican National Convention to promise a “law and order” response to protests against racial injustice.
In Kenosha, Wisconsin, relative calm returned after multiple nights of looting and two violent deaths in response to an officer who on Sunday fired seven shots at the back of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, paralyzing him. (Reuters)
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stepped up their criticism of President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying he’s rooting for violence amid unrest in Wisconsin and blasting him for a lack of leadership on the coronavirus pandemic, hours before Trump’s planned address on the final night of the Republican National Convention.
“He views this as a political benefit,” Democratic presidential nominee Biden said on MSNBC about protests in Wisconsin after police shot a Black man earlier this week. “He’s rooting for more violence, not less. And it’s clear about that.”
Harris, the vice presidential nominee, said Trump has showed “a reckless disregard for the well-being of the American people” in failing to contain the coronavirus. It was her first major Trump-focused speech since she joined the Democratic ticket. (AP)
Kamala Harris speaks at the Republican National Convention: "Here’s the thing about the nature of a pandemic: It’s relentless. You can’t stop it with a tweet. If you get it wrong at the beginning, the consequences are catastrophic. And Trump got it wrong from the beginning—and then he got it wrong again...and again."
Kamala Harris speaks on Jacob Blake shooting at the Republican National Convention: “The reality is that the life of a Black person in America has never been treated as fully human. We have yet to fulfill that promise of equal justice under law.”
Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris is delivering a speech to counter President Donald Trump's remarks at the Republican National Convention after formally accepting the party's presidential re-nomination.
Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff said Thursday that NBA protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, are "absurd and silly."
"If they want to protest, I don't think we care," Marc Short told CNN. His comments came the day after the NBA postponed three scheduled playoff games, with the Milwaukee Bucks kicking off the boycott by refusing to leave their locker room for the game against the Orlando Magic.
The players are demanding that lawmakers act to address police brutality and racial injustice. Players and teams from MLB, the WNBA, MLS and pro tennis sat out events Wednesday night, and NBA players and coaches met for nearly three hours to determine the next steps, including whether the season should continue. (AP)
A Black conservative running for Congress in Utah declared at the Republican National Convention that America needs more leaders like President Donald Trump who stand by their principles, won't compromise and "will stand up to the lawlessness supported by the radical left."
Republican Burgess Owens on Wednesday decried civil unrest that's followed some racial injustice protests and said America is at a crossroads in November. He said minorities and women enjoyed unprecedented prosperity under the Trump administration and criticized a comment Democrat Joe Biden made about race, saying "We have a Democratic candidate for president that says I'm not Black if I don't vote for him." (AP)
US officials said Wednesday there has been no intelligence to suggest that foreign countries are working to undermine mail-in voting and no signs of any coordinated effort to commit widespread fraud through the vote-by-mail process, despite numerous claims made by President Donald Trump in recent months.
The officials at multiple federal agencies stopped short of directly contradicting Trump, but their comments made it clear they had not seen evidence to support the president's statements that voter fraud will be rampant in the upcoming election and that the expected surge in mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic leaves November's presidential election especially vulnerable to foreign interference. (AP)
US Vice President Mike Pence has warned Americans that violence will spread in their cities if Democrat Joe Biden, a "Trojan horse" for the radical left, wins the presidential election against Donald Trump in November.
Pence, 61, formally accepted the Republican Party's vice-presidential nomination on the third night of the National Republican Convention on Wednesday as Republican supporters in Baltimore, Maryland, cheered, "Four more years."
Launching a frontal attack against Biden in his acceptance speech, Pence said the Democratic Party's presidential candidate against President Trump has been a "cheerleader" for communist China and would be nothing more than a "Trojan horse" for a radical left.
Democratic Party's Indian-origin vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris will deliver a speech on Thursday to counter President Donald Trump's remarks at the Republican National Convention after formally accepting the party's presidential re-nomination.
Harris will speak on "President Trump's failures to contain COVID-19 and protect working families from the economic fallout? and the ?Biden-Harris plan to contain COVID-19 and build a different path forward in America," The Hill quoted a press release from the Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's campaign as saying. While Trump is planning to give his speech from the South Lawn of the White House lawn, Harris's remarks from Washington D.C. will serve as the Democratic Party's main counter to his appearance, the report said.
Biden and Harris both railed against Trump's leadership at last week's Democratic National Convention.
Calling her India-born mother the greatest source of inspiration, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris has said she tries hard to follow the approach taught by her that the core value of America is not just to strive for success, but also to leave the country better than they found it. Harris, 55, is of both African and Indian descent, with her father being from Jamaica and mother Shyamala Gopalan from Tamil Nadu. In public addresses, Harris has regularly reflected on the deep influence that her mother had on her.
"When my mother arrived in the United States from India, she understood that the core of her new home in America is that we not only strive for success, but to leave our country better than we found it," she said. And this is what she strives to be, Harris said on Wednesday during the launch of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) for Biden, a group supporting the Democratic nominee for the November 3 presidential election.
Harris and former vice president Joe Biden will challenge incumbent President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in the election.
"That's the approach she instilled in me, and I know many of you are working toward that same end," she said. In a short video released later in the day on the occasion of Women's Equality Day, Harris said that her mother was ?the greatest source of inspiration in my life.? "She taught me from a young age that I had a responsibility to fight for justice. At the age of 19, she arrived in the United States from India alone and with the dream of curing cancer. She was a woman who believed in solving problems," Harris said.
US' former spy chief has claimed that three weeks before the January 2017 presidential inauguration, Joe Biden in his capacity as the vice president had asked intelligence officials to "uncover the hidden information" on the incoming national security advisor of then president-elect Donald Trump. Trump's first national security advisor Michael Flynn was the highest ranking official snared by the special counsel inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Flynn was forced to resign early in the Trump presidency for lying to Vice-President Mike Pence about his contacts with Russian government officials.
During his address to the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Wednesday, former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell broadly condemned the Obama administration's inquiry into possible Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 election. "As Acting Director of National Intelligence, I saw the Democrats' entire case for Russian collusion. And what I saw made me sick to my stomach," he said.
Portraying President Donald Trump as a protector of the nation, his deputy and running mate Vice President Mike Pence has said the US needs four more years of his administration in these challenging times. Pence, 61, formally accepted the Republican Party's vice-presidential nomination on the third night of the National Republican Convention on Wednesday.
"In these challenging times? our country needs a president who believes in America. Who believes in the boundless capacity of the American people to meet any challenge, defeat any foe, and defend the freedoms we all hold dear," he said.
Republican delegates from across the country have re-nominated Trump and Pence for the November 3 election. They will be challenged by former vice president Joe Biden and his Indian-origin running mate Senator Kamala Harris on the Democratic ticket. "America needs four more years of President Donald Trump in the White House!" Pence said in his address.
As they have done throughout the week, Republicans sought on Wednesday to portray Democratic nominee Joe Biden either as sympathetic to radical socialists or as a figurehead for their cause." Joe Biden would be nothing more than a Trojan horse for the radical left," Pence said.
"Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and their radical allies try to destroy these heroes, because if there are no heroes to inspire us, government can control us," Senator Marsha Blackburn said, accusing Biden and his running mate of attacking law enforcement.
It is not clear if the ominous warnings - which the Trump campaign has amplified for months - will stick.In the crowded Democratic presidential race, Biden ran explicitly as a moderate alternative to liberal stalwarts such as Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, particularly on healthcare, although he has shifted left on some issues since securing the nomination in a bid to unify the party.Republicans have tried to tie Biden to policies backed by some progressives, such as banning fracking and decriminalizing illegal border crossings. But Biden does not support those positions.
Mike Pence said, "When you consider their agenda, it's clear: Joe Biden would be nothing more than a Trojan horse for a radical left. The choice in this election has never been clearer and the stakes have never been higher. Last week, Joe Biden said democracy is on the ballot, but the truth is ... our economic recovery is on the ballot, law and order is on the ballot. But so are things far more fundamental and foundational to our country."
Republicans accused Democrats of encouraging civil unrest and street violence and praised U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday as a strong supporter of law enforcement amid protests over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin. On the third night of their convention to nominate Trump for a second four-year term, Republican speakers repeatedly cast the Nov. 3 election against Democratic challenger Joe Biden as a choice of law and order versus lawlessness. Vice President Mike Pence planned to assail a future America if Biden, the former vice president, should prevail."The hard truth is ... you won't be safe in Joe Biden's America," he said in excerpts released before the speech.
# The most vulnerable Republican senators up for re-election – Colorado’s Cory Gardner, Maine’s Susan Collins, North Carolina’s Thom Tillis and Arizona’s Martha McSally among them – have been absent from the convention, in what may be a nod to Trump’s lukewarm approval ratings.But Joni Ernst, the senator from Iowa who is locked in a tough battle with Democratic challenger Theresa Greenfield, made a prime-time appearance on Wednesday, delivering remarks in front of a tractor and hay bales in her home state.
# Two of the most visible women in Trump’s administration, senior adviser Kellyanne Conway and White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, spoke about their private interactions with Trump in an effort to humanize a president who has rarely shown empathy in public.McEnany offered a deeply personal story about her decision to undergo a preventative mastectomy, describing how Trump called her afterward – a gesture she characterized as supporting “an American with a pre-existing condition.”
# Within the first 15 minutes of the convention's third night, one of the main themes of the evening was already apparent: law and order.That is the message President Donald Trump has delivered, repeatedly and forcefully, throughout months of civil unrest following the May police killing of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis. He has called protesters 'thugs' and 'anarchists' and deployed federal agents to cities despite opposition from local leaders.
Vice President Mike Pence headlined the third night of the Republican National Convention, as speakers praised President Donald Trump's support for "heroes," including law enforcement, the military and healthcare providers.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris plans to deliver a speech condemning President Donald Trump on Thursday for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The speech will come hours before Trump is set to accept renomination for a second term.
Harris will detail a ``profound failure of leadership'' from Trump and highlight proposals by Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to control the virus and confront the economic fallout, Biden's campaign told The Associated Press.
With Trump planning an evening address from the White House lawn, Harris' afternoon remarks from Washington will be the Democrats' main counter to the president on the final day of the Republicans' convention.
An estimated 19.4 million people watched the second night of the mostly virtual Republican National Convention on Tuesday, according to Nielsen, slightly more than the 19.2 million viewers for the second night of last week’s Democratic convention.
The RNC number reflects the audience across 11 TV networks between 10 p.m and 11:15 p.m. EDT. It does not include online and streaming viewers. The first night of the RNC attracted 17 million viewers across 11 TV networks, a 26% decline from the same night in 2016.
Ratings for the second night of the virtual Democratic National Convention reflected viewers across 10 U.S. TV networks on Aug. 18. The DNC also experienced a drop in viewers from 2016.
The RNC number included viewers on Newsmax, which attracts a conservative audience, while the DNC figure did not. (Reuters)
An advocate of "household voting" in which husbands get the final say. A woman who has argued that school sex-ed programs are "grooming" children to be sexualised by predators like Jeffrey Epstein.
A candidate who has peddled in racist tropes and bizarre QAnon conspiracy theories. President Donald Trump has long surrounded himself with controversial characters who hold out-of-the-mainstream views. But the decision by the party to elevate some of those figures by featuring them in prime-time spots at the Republican National Convention or inviting them to witness this week's events is drawing new scrutiny. (AP)
As Republicans make the case for a second Trump term at their convention, trouble is brewing outside. The first two nights of the Republican National Convention included virtually no reference to the hurricane gaining strength in the Gulf of Mexico or to the California fires.
A Las Vegas pastor did open the second night of the convention with a prayer for Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man who was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, prompting three nights of protests. But most speakers have stuck to Trump's law-and-order message, warning that electing Democrat Joe Biden would lead to violence in American cities spilling into the suburbs, a message with racist undertones Health issues weren't totally ignored. (AP)
US Vice President Mike Pence is set to take centre stage on the penultimate night of the four-day Republican National Convention 2020. In his speech, Pence is expected to lavishly praise US President Donald Trump and launch a blistering attack on their challengers from the Democratic Party — former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Senator Kamala Harris.
Pence’s speech will conclude the third day of the RNC 2020, themed ‘Land of Opportunity’. He will remotely address American voters from Baltimore’s Fort McHenry, the site of a historic naval battle during the war of 1812, which inspired the US national anthem — ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’. READ MORE
US Vice President Mike Pence is set to take centre stage on the penultimate night of the four-day Republican National Convention 2020. In his speech, Pence is expected to lavishly praise US President Donald Trump and launch a blistering attack on their challengers from the Democratic Party — former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Senator Kamala Harris.
Pence’s speech will conclude the third day of the RNC 2020, themed ‘Land of Opportunity’. He will remotely address American voters from Baltimore’s Fort McHenry, the site of a historic naval battle during the war of 1812, which inspired the US national anthem — ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’.
The nomination of Kamala Harris for vice-president on the Democratic ticket in the US presidential elections has sent India into raptures. The predominant sentiment is of pride in “our girl”. What will certainly not be discussed at all, or as much, are the home truths about India that Senator Harris’s nomination and her extraordinary journey serve to highlight, writes Nirupama Subramanian of The Indian Express.
“For one, a majoritarian democracy like the one India has become in the 21st century could not have produced a Kamala Harris,” she writes. READ MORE
President Donald Trump is the only person who can take on China and its "predatory aggression," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told the American people He also said that President Trump will not rest until he brings the Communist nation to justice for spreading death and economic destruction in America and around the world through the coronavirus.
Pompeo on Tuesday deviated from his own advice and broke the longstanding precedent of sitting US secretaries of state avoiding partisan politics to urge Americans to re-elect President Trump on November?3 if they want to keep the country safe.
The President chief economic advisor Larry Kudlow pitched for Trump and his policies and said that the American voters will have to choose between economic health, prosperity and optimism under the Trump administration or a return to the "dark days of stagnation, recession and pessimism" under the Democrats, reported PTI.
Speaking on the second day of the four-day Republican National Convention on Tuesday, Kudlow said the economy was rebuilt under the Trump administration's first four years, unemployment fell to the lowest rate of 3.5 per cent, African-Americans, Hispanics, women and all groups benefitted enormously.
"Look, our economic chouce is very clear. Do you want economic health prosperity, opportunity and optimism, or do you want to turn back to the dark days of stagnation, recession and pessimism. I believe there can't be better economic policies than we've had in recent years. So, I stay with them," he said.
Kudlow expressed confidence that America will recover from the hardships brought by the COVID-19 pandemic soon.
Indian-American politics during a bitter electoral season took an ugly turn on Tuesday when the South Asians for Biden launched a smear social media campaign against Republican politician Nikki Haley over her remarks a day earlier that the US is not a racist country.
Following backlash from the community members and many others, the South Asians for Biden, which is affiliated to the Biden campaign, apologised and deleted its tweet later in the day.
“Upon further reflection, an earlier tweet drawing attention to the name of Ambassador Nikki Haley has been removed. South Asians for Biden regrets the tone of the message,” the group tweeted after deleting its previous tweet.
Deviating from the his own advice and breaking the longstanding precedent of sitting US secretaries of state avoiding partisan politics, Mike Pompeo has urged Americans to re-elect President Donald Trump if they want to keep the country safe and their freedoms intact.
Pompeo's address at the second day of the mostly-virtual Republican National Convention on Tuesday createda political uproar, especially from the opposition Democratic Party, which asserted that the Secretary of State should stay away from partisan politics.
A total of 17 million people watched the mostly virtual Republican National Convention’s first night on Monday, according to Nielsen, fewer than the 19.7 million viewers who watched the first night of the Democratic National Convention.
The 17 million RNC number reflects the audience across 11 TV networks between 10 p.m EDT and 11 p.m. EDT and does not include online and streaming viewers. Fox News had the biggest audience, with 7.1 million viewers.
Ratings for the first night of the virtual Democratic National Convention reflected viewers across 10 U.S. TV networks on Aug. 17.
The Republican convention’s first night featured speeches by former U.N. Ambassador and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley; Donald Trump Jr., the president’s oldest son; and Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters who marched past their home. (Reuters)
First lady Melania Trump and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lead an array of Americans making the case at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday for re-electing President Donald Trump over Democrat Joe Biden in November.
On the convention’s Day One on Monday, Republicans painted a dire portrait of an America led by former Vice President Biden with Trump campaign adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle asserting that Democrats want to “destroy this country.” (Reuters)
Rapper and music producer Kanye West did not gather enough valid signatures to be on Missouri's election ballot in November, the Associated Press reported.
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft notified West his office had verified 6,557 valid signatures in support of West's bid to be listed as an independent candidate for president.
Missouri law requires at least 10,000 valid signatures to be placed on the ballot.
Making a passionate plea to re-elect Republican Donald Trump, top Indian-American politician Nikki Haley said that the US President has a "record of strength and success", while his Democratic rival Joe Biden has a "record of weakness and failure."
Haley, who was the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, on the first day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) warned Americans that a Biden-(Kamala) Harris administration would lead the country on the path of socialism, which has failed everywhere in the world. Indian-origin US Senator from California Kamala Harris is the running mate of Biden.
Harris is the first Indian-American to be nominated for the second highest political office in the country. This is probably for the first time that Haley criticised Harris after she was picked by Biden early this month as the vice presidential candidate. (PTI)
Plenty of presidents have walked right up to the line separating official business from politics - or even stepped over it. President Donald Trump has blown past it with a bulldozer, and his planned Republican convention speech from the White House lawn this week might be the latest and most blatant example yet.
Down in the polls and facing the headwinds of a coronavirus-battered economy, Trump made the case that the White House is the easiest location for the Secret Service and law enforcement to secure for his acceptance speech after Republicans were forced to scale back their convention because of the pandemic.
Left unsaid was that the Executive Mansion offers Trump a grand setting as he attempts to make his case that voters should stick with him in the midst of a health catastrophe that has touched nearly every aspect of American life. "What makes this particularly galling is that the president owns a hotel four blocks away from the White House that he's shown no qualms about profiting from over the course of his presidency," said Donald Sherman, deputy director of the nonprofit government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. (AP)
When Melania Trump addresses the Republican convention from the White House, it will be the most that many Americans have seen of their first lady since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic that has come to define her husband's administration.
Out of the public view for much of the year, Mrs Trump will step into the spotlight Tuesday night to argue for a second term for President Donald Trump - while trying to avoid the missteps that marred her introduction to the nation when she spoke at the gathering in 2016.
The first lady's office hasn't provided any hints as to what she will say. "I would suspect that the speech will be a combination of defending what the base likes about Donald Trump, playing up the fact that if you like what you saw, you'll like the next four years if he's reelected," said Ohio University professor Katherine Jellison, who studies first ladies. (AP)