China News Agency, Washington, August 24 (Reporter Chen Mengtong) The Republican National Congress of the United States formally nominated the current President Trump as the party's presidential candidate in 2020.
The Republican Convention opened on the same day in Charlotte, North Carolina. Affected by the new crown epidemic, the conference reduced the scale of participants to a total of 336 people.
"This will be the most important election in the history of the United States," Trump said after being formally nominated, appearing at the meeting and giving a speech, "our country may be headed in a terrible direction, or it may be headed in a greater direction." On the White House schedule, Trump planned to visit an agricultural product processing plant near Charlotte on the same day, but he did not have a plan to attend the meeting.
In his speech for about an hour, Trump repeatedly mentioned the impact of the new crown epidemic and doubts about mail voting. He said that the United States has "done very, very well" in fighting the epidemic, and the US economy will rebound in a "V" shape. Trump promised that if he is re-elected, 10 million jobs will be created within 10 months.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of the 24th, the number of new coronary pneumonia infections in the United States has reached 5.728 million and 177,000 have died.
"What they did was use the new crown epidemic to steal elections." Trump said that the Democratic Party's support for expanding mail voting is not for epidemic prevention considerations, but for political considerations, which will lead to election fraud.
Compared with the Democratic National Convention held almost "online", American public opinion pointed out that the Republican Convention is in sharp contrast to it in fact. Not only did the president and vice president deliver speeches after being nominated, some other Republicans also arranged the event to be held in Charlotte.
Trump also mentioned Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, in his speech, criticizing him for not going to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to attend the Democratic convention during the entire process, and "we did this out of respect for North Carolina."
In addition to the formal nomination of the presidential and vice presidential candidates, the Republican Party also passed new resolutions that support the designation of Columbus Day as a federal holiday, and decided not to vote on the 2020 new party platform, but to retain the party platform four years ago.
The American media predicts that in addition to discussing the new crown epidemic and economic issues, the Republican Congress will also focus on issues such as police enforcement and illegal immigration. As Trump has announced his acceptance speech at the White House on the 27th, the focus of the conference will gradually shift to the capital Washington in the next three days. (Finish)