“Some people are always in a hurry. They run when they could run. Take steps if others take it slow,” says a narrator at the beginning of the ad, as images of Biden walking and cycling are provided with viral videos of Trump cautiously. earlier a year down a slope at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point.
The ad then turns to Biden’s biography, including the tragedy that defined his life, and includes Biden who gains the country’s ability to overcome this moment.
“America is an idea, an idea stronger than any army more powerful than any dictator or tyrant,” Biden says in the ad. “And it’s an idea as alive and powerful today as it was when it was first proposed.”
The ad is part of the $ 26 million the campaign plans to spend on digital and television ads around the Republican convention.
Trump will accept his party’s nomination with a speech on the White House’s South Lawn on Thursday night. The speech will mark the end of the Republican convention, a four-night event in which the party sought to present a softer, softer version of the president while re-inventing his own record on everything from the coronavirus to the economy. until immigration.
“At no time have voters had to deal with a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies, than two agendas,” Trump is expected to say, according to excerpts from Trump’s speech delivered to CNN. “We’re reversed the damage Joe Biden has inflicted over the last 47 years over the last four years. At the Democratic convention, you have hardly heard a word about their agenda. But that’s not because they have none. It’s because their agenda is the most extreme set of proposals ever put forward by a major party nominee. “
Nearly all Republican speakers have also criticized the Biden-Harris administration, calling it radical and out of touch with America.
But Biden’s campaign also sought to signal discrimination among Republican ranks during the GOP convention, with the recommendation of hundreds of employees working for the last three Republican presidential candidates – Utah Senator Mitt Romney, the late Arizona Senator John McCain and former President George W. Bush. Trump, however, remains overwhelmingly popular among Republican voters.
All of this plays out as the latest instance of racial unrest, this time in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after a police officer shot Blake.
The riot continued later in the week when two people were shot and killed during a night of unrest. Police arrested Illinois teenager Kyle Rittenhouse on Wednesday and charged him with premeditated first-degree murder.
Trump has not yet commented on Blake’s shooting, but Biden and Harris have spoken with the Blake family and the California senator has commented on the unrest at a virtual campaign event on Wednesday.
“It’s just the latest tragic example of what we also need to focus on in reforming the criminal justice system and policing in America,” Harris said. “What happened is so tragic and still represents the two systems of justice in America, there are still two systems of justice in America and we, we have to fight again for that idea that says all people are treated equally, what happens still not. “
CNN’s Sarah Mucha contributed to this report.
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