2020 RNC Trump speaking, GOP officials to hold mostly virtual event

  2020 RNC Trump speaking, GOP officials to hold mostly virtual event.

Donald Trump is expected to address each night of a mostly virtual four-day Republican National Convention, with First Lady Melania Trump delivering remarks on Tuesday and Vice President Mike Pence speaking from Fort McHenry in Maryland on Wednesday.

The president will accept his renomination during a White House address on Thursday, concluding a schedule of events that campaign and party officials did not publicly confirm within days of the event beginning on 24 August.

At his nomination speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, presidential candidate Joe Biden pledged that the US would "overcome this season of darkness in America" and "choose hope over fear, facts over fiction, fairness over privilege."

The president called his remarks and the event "the darkest and angriest and gloomiest convention in American history."

But the president has relied on a persistent vision of a nation torn apart by other Americans throughout his campaign and at the White House. In his 2016 convention address, then-candidate Trump declared "I alone can fix" the US, and months later invoked "American carnage" and declared "America first" at his inaugural address in January 2017.

At his June re-election campaign kickoff rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the president – who has often accused Democrats of dividing the nation – considered in detail his apocalyptic view of America under Democratic leadership.

From the foot of Mount Rushmore on the eve of the Fourth of July, previewing his violent re-election campaign rhetoric in the weeks that followed during widespread protests against police brutality, the president described demonstrations as a "merciless campaign" and a "growing danger" threatening to "end America."

The president's campaign officials have promised the GOP event to contrast what they see as Democrats' "doom and gloom" outlook with a programme "honouring the great American story."

Where and when is the convention?

GOP officials initially planned to host some convention events in North Carolina, with prime-time events in Florida, but party officials moved the entire event to North Carolina after that state's governor had raised public health concerns about mass gatherings in the middle of the pandemic.

But during a White House briefing in July, the president abruptly announced that the Florida convention would be cancelled. Instead, in-person events will remain in North Carolina, where hundreds of convention participants are expected, rather than thousands, at the Charlotte Convention Centre.

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