Trump assails rival Biden in White House speech accepting nomination

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A defiant President Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for a second term on Thursday with a scathing attack on rival Joe Biden, asserting that a Democratic victory in November would only exacerbate the racial strife and coronavirus pandemic besieging the nation. Speaking from the White House South Lawn despite criticism he was using the executive residence as a political prop, Trump portrayed Biden, a career politician with a long record as a moderate, as a far-left extremist who would usher in a lawless, dangerous America. “This election will decide whether we protect law-abiding Americans, or whether we give free rein to violent anarchic agitators and criminals who threaten our citizens,” Trump said on the fourth and final night of the Republican National Convention in a speech that lasted more than an hour. “No one will be safe in Biden’s America.” Despite the pandemic that has killed more than 180,000 Americans, Trump delivered his remarks before a crowd of more than 1,000 people, standing in front of dozens of American flags and basking in chants of “Four more years!” and “U.S.A.!” Though an incumbent, Trump remains a self-styled outsider, an approach that won him the White House,… Read full this story

Trump assails rival Biden in White House speech accepting nomination have 302 words, post on www.reuters.com at August 27, 2020. This is cached page on CuBird. If you want remove this page, please contact us.