Trump’s Convention Invokes Fear of Biden in Appeal to GOP Base
- Debut night warns of lawless America if Democrats win
- Convention wooed Black voters while disparaging protests
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President Donald Trump’s convention opened with a dark portrait of fear in America painted largely for the benefit of his base -- mixing appeals to Black and Latino voters with warnings of “mobs” bent on destroying the status quo.
Monday’s Republican convention programming offered few appeals for independent voters disenchanted by Trump. Instead, it stitched together a series of tributes to Trump himself, leaned heavily on accusations that Democrats would damage the very fabric of American society and offered a revisionist vision of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which now threatens his re-election chances.