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Donald Trump is expected to address a four-day, most virtual Republican National Convention each day, with First Lady Melania Trump delivering remarks on Tuesday and Vice President Mike Pence speaking from Fort McHenry in Maryland on Wednesday.
The president will accept his nomination during a White House address on Thursday, closing a schedule of events that campaign and party officials have not publicly confirmed within days of the August 24 event.
In his nomination speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, presidential candidate Joe Biden promised that the US “would overcome this season of darkness in America” and “choose hope over fear, facts about fiction, honesty over privilege.”
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The president called his remarks and the event “the darkest and scariest and gloomiest convention in American history.”
But the president has relied on a persistent vision of a nation torn apart by other Americans throughout his campaign and at the White House. In his 2016 convention address, then-candidate Trump declared “I can only fix” the US, and months later called “American carnage” and declared “America first” at his founding address in January 2017.
At its kick-off rally in June of the new election campaign in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the president – who has often accused Democrats of dividing the nation – considered in detail his apocalyptic view of America under Democratic leadership.
From the foot of Mount Rushmore on the eve of the Fourth of July, and anticipation of his violent rhetoric of the new election campaign in the weeks that followed during widespread protests against police brutality, the president described demonstrations as a “merciful campaign” and a “growing danger threatens to” end America. “
The president’s campaign officials have promised the GOP event to contrast what they see as “Doom and gloom” failure by Democrats with a program “honoring the great American story.”
Where and when is the convention?
GOP officials initially planned to host some North Carolina conference meetings, with prime-time events in Florida, but party officials moved the entire event to North Carolina after the state governor worried about public health about mass gatherings in the midst of the pandemic.
But during a briefing in the White House in July, the president abruptly announced that the Florida Convention would be canceled. Instead, personal events will remain in North Carolina, where hundreds of convention attendees are expected, instead of thousands, at the Charlotte Convention Center.
The president will likely stay in Washington DC, where the Andrew W Mellon Auditorium will serve as the broadcast hub.
Prime-time events will be livestreamed and shared for broadcast beginning at 8:30 a.m. and ending at 11 p.m. EST beginning on August 24th.
What’s on the agenda?
A vote call for roles to re-elect the president will take place on Monday.
The president will make an appearance every night of the convention, including a segment in honor of frontline workers, according to campaign officials.
Each night of the convention is also scheduled to make remarks that reflect on the president’s campaign rallies, speeches and events, in which he invited speakers to socialism – specifically in Venezuela and Cuba – after the president called on red-bang tactics to portray his moderate rival as a “Trojan horse” for socialism.
A handful of Republican officials are confirmed to address the convention, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.
The convention will also include performances by a small business owner who relied on PPP loans during the pandemic, the only reference to the public health crisis in a tentative convention scheme.
Earlier, Mrs Abby Johnson, whose life sentence was commuted by the president following the intervention of Kim Kardashian West, will also appear.
Also scheduled to appear is a former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic who became an anti-abortion activist, whose dramatic departure from the organization has been investigated in court reports and in newspaper reports that have questioned the truth of her claims.
But the party’s ongoing grievances will also take center stage in the prime-time events.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who threatened Black Lives Matter protesters outside their home in St. Louis, Missouri, will also attack the nation.
Nick Sandmann, a Kentucky student taken prisoner in a viral video with a Native American parent, will also attend the convention. He succumbed The Washington Post for $ 250 million – a case that eventually settled out of court – and threatened legal action against several other media companies for what he and his parents claimed was the current “McCarthyism” and “targeting and bullying” over their coverage of the viral video.
“I can not tell you all enough about how excited I am to be apart [sic] of these years RNC! he announced on Twitter.
The First Lady is set to speak at the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday, and the vice president will provide remarks Wednesday, leading to the White House president’s address on Thursday.
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