Dhe thing is only a formality, but order has to be maintained. During their party convention, which starts on Monday, the Republicans become Donald Trump, 74, to nominate her presidential candidate. The Democrats recently met virtually for four days, but the Republicans in Charlotte, North Carolina, are meeting in real life – albeit on a much smaller scale than planned.
The President will also show himself here and talk, if only briefly. He wants to give his actual address after the nomination in the White House on Thursday. In an email appeal for donations (“confidential … do not share”) to – probably millions – fans, Trump announced that this speech would “be different from everyone else”.
He continues: “Your president is in the middle of an all-out political war with the radical left, and they are working overtime with the fake news media to bring me down.”
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Originally, Trump had a colorful, huge nomination party convention planned in Charlotte. As the state governor, a Democrat, on the distance rules as a result of the Covid-Epidemie pointed out, Trump angrily moved the event to Jacksonville, Florida. The Republicans rule there.
But the state was so badly hit by Covid-19 in the summer that even the Republicans canceled the planned mass event in Jacksonville.
Charlotte was at least a rump party conference. The Republican Party asked attendees to stay home as much as possible before their August 6 trip to avoid the risk of corona infection.
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In the United States, more than 170,000 people have died as a result of the epidemic, and over 5.5 million have become infected. Trump downplayed the epidemic and once announced that the virus would disappear “like a miracle”. The crisis resulted in the worst recession since the Great Depression.
Speakers at the Republican Congress include Vice Presidents Mike Pence, who is also running again, and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, who is considered a possible presidential candidate in 2024.
But the party congress will above all be a family celebration. Speeches are expected from First Lady Melania Trump, daughters Ivanka and Tiffany Trump, and sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump.
Tim Scott, the only black among the 53 Republican senators, will appear. Mark and Patricia McCloskey will also speak. The white St. Louis couple gained national fame in June after pointing guns at protesters on their private street. Since then, the McCloskeys have been considered heroes of “conservative” America.
The Democrats, who recently nominated ex-Vice President Joe Biden, 77, as their candidate, want to get attention with speeches from their leaders during the Republican event. However, they do without media-oriented rallies for their Trump-style campaign.
Reason should include Nancy Pelosi, spokeswoman for the House of Representatives. It was still unclear whether Biden or Kamala Harris, the candidate for the office of Vice President, would make the speech.
Patricia McCloskey and her husband Mark aim their guns at a Black Lives Matter protest in St. Louis on June 28, 2020
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A programmatic surcharge is to be expected from the Republicans even less than recently at the Democrats’ congress, which is thin in terms of content – the Republicans are running again with their election manifesto from 2016.
What this lack of ambition in terms of content can lead to became apparent in early summer. Even after an editorial revision, the document found critical references to the “current president”, the “current executive” and the “current resident” of the White House. This is known to be Donald Trump since 2017.
This can hardly be understood as a criticism of him, the Republican establishment fully supports their president. However, there is unrest in the party. The polls for Trump are bad, nationwide as in numerous key states, Biden leads.
And not everyone is excited about the closeness of some party friends to the QAnon movement. It stands for a range of diverse conspiracy theories, the core of which is that the world is ruled by satanic and cannibalic pedophiles. Trump is considered her hero who fights against this alleged elite rule.
Quality opportunities For example, the declared QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene, 46, who recently secured the candidacy in a Republican constituency within the party, has decided to move into the House of Representatives.
Greene sees conspiracy theory as “a place to be heard” and the QAnon movement as “a golden opportunity” to “turn off the global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles.” You have “the President who can do that” for it.
Greene described the Holocaust survivor George Soros as a “Nazi who himself tries to continue what has not ended”. She called the House Speaker, Pelosi, “anti-American” and a “slut”.
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“I heard that these are people who love our country,” said Trump on Wednesday, when asked about this group. He claimed not to know much about the movement “other than to see that they like me very much”. He praised his fellow party member Greene after her victory in the primary as a “real winner”, yes a “future Republican star”.
This warns FBI For a long time, extremists driven by conspiracy theories represented a terror threat within. It also explicitly mentions QAnon here.
The growing influence of QAnon on the Republicans arouses opposition in the party, if only quietly – as always with phenomena and people that Trump supports. “QAnon is dangerous madness that should have no place in American politics,” said Liz Cheney of the House of Representatives Republican leadership.
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Her fellow party member, minority leader Kevin McCarthy, said he “totally disagrees” with QAnon’s beliefs. But at the same time he assured that if Greene was elected, she would be sent to a House Committee.
Greene made a name for herself with statements even before she became connected with QAnon. When two Muslim women were elected to Congress for the first time in 2018, she spoke of an “Islamic invasion”.
It is unlikely that the QAnon cause will be openly discussed during the party congress. Nobody wants to fight such conflicts. Especially not now. A good two months before the election, in the midst of the pandemic and recession, Trump has to vote out to fear. On average in the last polls, the Democrat is a good seven percentage points ahead of Trump.
Much more important: Biden is also ahead in swing states like Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan. Trump won there in 2016.
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