China News Agency, Washington, August 10 (Reporter Chen Mengtong) U.S. President Trump said on the 10th that he will accept the Republican presidential nomination at the White House or Gettysburg American Civil War site and give a speech.
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Trump said on social media that day that he had narrowed down the venues for nominating speeches on August 27 to two, "One is the great battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the other is the White House in Washington, DC."
Less than three weeks before the opening of the Republican National Congress, the agenda of the conference, which was changed and finally cancelled due to the epidemic, has not yet been finalized.
Trump announced on July 23 that in view of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, he decided to cancel the agenda of the Republican National Congress in Florida. Previously, in order to be able to hold the meeting "full", the Republican Party split the National Congress into two on June 11: The meeting remained in Charlotte, North Carolina for the first three days, and the next four nights included Trump's acceptance. Nominated speeches and other "highlights" were transferred to Jacksonville, Florida.
Gettysburg, located in southern Pennsylvania, was once the most tragic battlefield of the American Civil War. It was also the place where former President Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg speech. Today, the town has a national cemetery and a national military park and other civil war memorials.
In October 2016, Trump visited Gettysburg and addressed his supporters. When asked what message Trump hopes to convey in Gettysburg this time, White House Press Secretary McKenney did not give a clear answer at the press conference on the 10th. She said, "The president has done a lot to unite this country. We are facing unprecedented challenges."
However, American public opinion pointed out that the White House and Gettysburg Civil War sites are both federal lands. It is not suitable to hold partisan political activities at these two locations and may even encounter legal challenges.
The Democratic National Convention will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from August 17th to 20th. The General Assembly Committee issued a statement on August 5 stating that former US Vice President Biden, who has locked the party’s presidential nomination, will accept the nomination remotely in his hometown of Delaware.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 14:00 on the 10th, the number of new coronary pneumonia infections in the United States has reached 5.063 million and 163,000 have died. Among them, 124,000 were diagnosed in Pennsylvania. (Finish)