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August 27, 2020 - US Vice President Mike Pence formally accepted the Republican Party nomination to run as Donald Trump's deputy in the November presidential election. "I humbly accept your nomination to run and to serve as Vice President of the United States," Pence said in a speech delivered before a limited audience, for health reasons, at a historic military site in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Chronicle of a night at the convention
After the moderate tones used yesterday by Melania Trump at the convention of the Republican party, this night, the third and penultimate, has returned to the usual apocalyptic claims about how the United States will suffer if Trump were to lose in November against Joe Biden, which however is still largely in the lead in polls. 

The specter of socialism
South Carolina Governor Kristi Noem set the tone for the evening: "America's founding principles are under attack" - she said - "it took 244 years to build our great country, but now we risk losing everything in a short time if we take the path indicated by the Democrats and their most radical supporters ". Or: "This is a vote to choose between true America and socialism," was the alarm raised by Lara Trump, the wife of the third son of US President Eric Trump. 

America remains America
Vice President Mike Pence concluded the evening in exactly the same terms: "The choice of this election is whether America remains America" ​​or "if we want to live in a country that transforms itself into something completely. different ": he said.

"Biden Trojan Horse"
Pence, who accepted the nomination for another four years as number two, has drawn an enthusiastic balance sheet of this first term. He then defined Biden "trojan horse of the radical left, he evoked a season of darkness, but where he sees American darkness we see American greatness".

Pence spoke from Fort McHenry, the Baltimore fortress from where the Americans defended the harbor in 1814 in the war against the British, inspiring poet Francis Scott Key to write 'The Star-Spangled Banner', which later became the American national anthem. At his side was Trump, who had come from Washington to be close to his number two and took the stage at the end to perform the anthem.

Nothing scratches the convention, not the massive Hurricane Laura fast approaching the Texas coast, not the fires that continue to burn California, and not the National Guard being deployed in a Wisconsin town after a white cop fired on the back of an unarmed black man. Only self-congratulatory words, however, for a pandemic that continues to reap the lives of nearly 1,000 Americans a day. 

In between there was the call for a female vote. Trump as a feminist was the topic of the speech by Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's closest adviser who has just announced his resignation. "For decades President Trump has elevated women to top positions in business and government. He trusts and consults us, respects our opinions and insists we must be on the same level as men." 

Low profile speech by the 'second lady' Karen Pence, who used the stage of the republican convention to thank the military and their wives for their contribution to the country. The vice president's wife recalled that her son and son-in-law are both in the military and that her daughter and daughter-in-law are "the heroines of the home front". 

Greetings without a mask
In the end, Pence came down from the podium without a mask, together with President Donald Trump, also with his face uncovered, to greet the militants, many of whom were without protection in the mouth and nose. In the images broadcast by various Anglo-Saxon media, including the British Independent, Pence is seen touching the fists of two spectators, without a mask, both behind a barrier that allowed them to keep a certain distance. According to Politico, even though Trump and Pence belatedly agreed to abide by the health authorities' recommendations regarding face coverage and social distancing, they still wink at the widespread skepticism in their constituency about these precautions against the coronavirus infection Sars-CoV-2.