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TODAYS TOP HEADLINES The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Weekend Edition - August 29-30, 2020 3A Trump accepts GOP nomination President warns in speech that Democrats see America as wicked’ EVAN VUCCII Associated Press President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive for his acceptance speech at the Republican National Committee Convention on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 27, in Washington. Associated Press Facing a national moment fraught with racial turmoil and a deadly pandemic, President Donald Trump accepted his par ty’s renomination on a massive White House South Lawn stage Thursday night. As troubles churned outside the gates, Trump painted an opti mistic vision of America’s future, including an eventual triumph over the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 175,000 people, left millions unemployed and rewritten the rules of soci ety. But that brighter horizon can only be secured, Trump asserted, if he defeats Democrat Joe Biden. Trailing Biden in opinion polls, he blistered the former vice pres ident’s record and even ques tioned his love of America. “We have spent the last four years reversing the damage Joe Biden inflicted over the last 47 years,” Trump said. Presenting himself as the last barrier protecting an American way of life under siege from radi cal forces, Trump declared that “Joe Biden and his party repeat edly assailed America as a land of racial, economic, and social injustice.” “So tonight, I ask you a very simple question: How can the Democrat Party ask to lead our country when it spends so much time tearing down our coun try?” Trump said. “In the left’s backward view, they do not see America as the most free, just, and exceptional nation on earth. Instead, they see a wicked nation that must be punished for its sins.” He was introduced by his daughter Ivanka, an influen tial White House adviser, who portrayed the famously bom bastic Trump as someone who has shaken up Washington with little record for norms or niceties. “Dad, people attack you for being unconventional, but I love you for being real. And I respect you for being effective,” she said. The president spoke from a setting that was both familiar and controversial. Despite tradi tion and regulation to not use the White House for purely political events, a huge stage was set up outside the executive mansion, dwarfing the trappings for some of the most important moments of past presidencies. The speak er’s stand was flanked by dozens of American flags and two big video screens. Trying to run as an insurgent as well as incumbent, Trump tried to portray Biden — who is considered a moderate Demo crat — as a tool of the radical left, fringe forces he said don’t love their country. The Republicans say that the violence that has erupted in Kenosha and some other Ameri can cities is to be blamed on Democratic governors and may ors. Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday said that Ameri cans wouldn’t be safe in “Joe Biden’s America.” That drew a stern rebuke from his predecessor in the post. “The problem we have right now is that we are in Donald Trump’s America,” said Biden on MSNBC. “He views this as a political benefit to him, he is root ing for more violence not less. He is pouring gasoline on the fire.” Both parties are watching with uncertainty the developments in Wisconsin and cities across the nation with Republicans lean ing hard on support for law and order while claiming that Biden has not condemned the lawless ness. Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney and New York City’s former mayor, declared that Democrats’ “silence was so deafening that it reveals an acceptance of this violence because they will accept any thing they hope will defeat Presi dent Donald Trump.” Though some of the speak ers, unlike on previous nights, offered notes of sympathy to the families of Black men killed by police, Giuliani also took aim at the Black Lives Matter move ment, suggesting that it, along with ANTIFA, was part of the extremist voices pushing Biden to “execute their pro-criminal, anti-police policies” and had “hijacked the protests into vicious, brutal riots.” Along with Biden, running mate Kamala Harris offered counter-programming for Trump’s prime-time speech. She delivered a speech a half mile from the White House, declaring, “Donald Trump has failed at the most basic and important job of a president of the United States: He failed to protect the American people, plain and simple.” Some demonstrations took to Washington’s streets Thursday night, ahead of a march planned for the next day. New fencing set up along the White House perim eter was to keep the protesters at bay, but some of their shouts and car horns were clearly audible on the South Lawn where more than 1,500 people gathered. Most of the convention has been aimed at former Trump supporters or nonvoters, and has tried to drive up negative impres sions of Biden so that some of his possible backers stay home. Many of the messages were aimed squarely at seniors and suburban women. 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