Biden will remotely accept the Democratic presidential nomination

　　Xinhua News Agency, Washington, August 5 (Reporter Sun Ding and Xu Jianmei) The Democratic National Convention Committee issued a statement on the 5th that the former US Vice President Biden, who has locked the party’s presidential nomination, will be remote in his hometown of Delaware. Accept nominations.

　　The statement said that considering that the new crown epidemic in the United States is worsening and to protect the health of all parties, speakers at the 2020 Democratic National Convention will not go to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Biden will not go. Biden will deliver a national speech in his hometown of Delaware and accept the Democratic presidential nomination.

　　The 2020 Democratic National Convention will be held in Milwaukee from August 17th to 20th. In view of the new crown epidemic, the organizers have previously decided to move some activities to "online", and Biden originally planned to go to Milwaukee to accept the nomination.

　　The 2020 Republican National Congress will be held from August 24 to 27. The organizers also decided to significantly reduce the size of the convention due to the new crown epidemic. The current President Trump, who has locked the Republican presidential nomination, announced that the agenda of the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville, Florida has been cancelled. He will give a speech in "other forms" and formally accept the nomination.

　　Trump revealed in an interview with US media on the 5th that he is considering speaking at the White House and accepting the Republican presidential nomination. But the Speaker of the House of Representatives and Democrat Pelosi questioned and criticized this idea.

　　The National Congress of the major political parties in the United States is held every 4 years and is held during the presidential election year. Its main functions include nomination of candidates for the president and vice president of the party, discussion and approval of the party’s campaign platform, etc.

　　The United States is the country with the worst COVID-19 epidemic in the world. According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of the afternoon of the 5th Eastern Time, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new crown in the United States has exceeded 4.8 million, and the number of deaths has exceeded 157,000.