The Republican National Convention, which kicks off Monday, will be a four-day celebration of President Trump – and a four-day visceral sentence of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his party.
Next week, when Democrats used their square confab to hammer out the president’s treatment of the coronavirus pandemic and warn that in four more years Trump in the White House would threaten the nation’s democratic foundations, Trump is promises to counter the message with a positive vision of “American greatness.”
THE PRAYER TRUMP POLL STATEMENT HEADING In the conventions
The former vice president leaves behind in national polls for public opinion – and more importantly also down by single-digit margins in many of the major general election campaigns that will decide the White House contest – Trump is working on it creating game-changing moments that will change the long-standing dynamics in the 2020 presidential race.
“Where Joe Biden sees American darkness, I see American greatness,” the president said Friday at a meeting of the National Policy Council, which is made up of leading Republican donors.
“Four straight days of attacking America, as a racist, horrific country that needs to be liberated,” Trump said as he painted a portrait of the Democratic Assembly as the “darkest, gloomiest” convention. “Joe Biden angrily declared a season of American darkness, but look at what we’ve achieved until the plague came in, and look, we’re doing it again.”
The president pleaded to present “what we have achieved,” and called his office “the most successful period of time in the country’s history.”
In testing themes for the convention, Trump urged supporters to “reject the anger and hatred of the Democratic Party” and claimed that “no party can lead America that spends so much time on America”.
TRUMP TARGETS DEMOCRATS ‘DARKNESS’
Noting that the theme of the four-day meeting is “the great American story,” Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Womannana Ronna McDaniel told Fox Hem ‘Bill Hemmer that “this will be a very positive uplifting convention.”
The Democratic convention, which had many uplifting moments, was also a celebration of diversity and embraced the faces and voices of many average Americans. But there were also performances by Hollywood stars who were not noticed by the GOP, along with harsh warnings about dark days ahead if Trump wins.
‘The president’s convention is about real people. I’m a real mom. I’m not playing one on TV, ”McDaniel insisted. ‘The president will talk about real families, real people, what has affected their lives, how his policies have made life better and then what the future holds for America. It will be more ambitious, less angry. ‘
While Democrats opposed criticism that their convention was short on policies and specifications, Vice President Pence promised much.
“We will talk about what this president has done to rebuild this economy, build the army, strengthen constitutional freedoms with conservatives at our courts at every level,” Pence said Friday in an interview with Fox & Friends. “
The vice president claimed that Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his party “have been taken over by the radical left and although they do not care much about their talks, their agenda is higher taxes, socialized medicine, open borders, abortion on demand.” Pence has promised to make the Democrats’ new week agenda “clear to the American people next week.”
And pointing to the three-month-long nationwide protests over police brutality against minorities and systemic racism – because some of those protests have escalated into violent injustices – Pence promises that “we will bring law and order to our cities. week over. ”
A focus on law and order and a long-evolving narrative that Biden is in competition with “radicals” are sure to kill most four days prominently.
Longtime Republican consultant David Carney said the mission for the president and the party at the convention is simple: “Mark the things they did … you can’t repeat them enough.”
Carney, a veteran of several GOP presidential campaigns, stressed that the other item on the to-do list is that the president is offering his agenda for a second term, to “focus on the next four years.”
Another task for Trump and Pence is to turn the spotlight on Biden.
Veteran Republican pollster Neil Newhouse, who was Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s pollster in the 2012 presidential campaign, stressed that “in order for Trump to win this race, voters need to understand the contrast between the two candidates.”
DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR PREDICTS ‘CHAOS’ AT GOP Convention
Just when the Trump campaign and the RNC were targeting Democrats during their convention, the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) will regain the advantage this week.
DNC President Tom Perez accused Friday that “chaos will be the order of the day” at the GOP convention. Perez predicted that Republican assembly “will be marked by chaos, chaos, chaos.”
And he claimed that Trump “will do what he always does – lie, scare, distract, divide and make new week all about himself.”
Perez noted that Democrats – coming from their national convention – “will not take our foot off the gas next week. While Republicans are compiling their chaos convention, the DNC’s war room will work the clock to speak truth to power, to the disastrous to expose consequences of Trump’s chaos presidency, which has only led to crisis after crisis after crisis. “
Perez claimed that “unity is clearly not the message for them. Department is the message for them. The only way [Trump] succeeds is to divide and conquer. That’s his only play in the playbook. ”
The Republican convention will be held Monday in Charlotte, NC, where the convention was originally scheduled to be held in its entirety before the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation.
A limited number of party representatives will meet briefly to hold a live personal roll call to formally re-nominate both the president and vice president. The rest of the convention will be held virtually.
Unlike the Democratic convention, which was almost a prime-time affair, McDaniel told Fox News that “we will program through the day,” which would include trainings for supporters and volunteers across the country, such as MAGA ( Make America Great Again) meetups. She also showed that unlike the Democratic event, all GOP convention keynote speakers “will be live every night.” And they announced that prime-time programming would begin each night at 8:30 pm ET and last until 11 pm ET.
‘I think we have more of it live than what they have [the DNC] did, “Trump said on Fox News ” Hannity ‘Thursday night.’ “I find it pretty boring when you do tires. I go live and do mine live.”
The president has been appointed to deliver his formal acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday at the White House.
The party that traditionally controls the White House holds its convention second. McDaniel notes that in these unconventional times amidst the coronavirus, “it has been fun to go second and see what the Democrats put forward.”
Kristin Fisher and Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
