Donald Trump Jr said Monday night ‘this election is church, work and school versus rioting, looting and vandalism’ as he took aim at Joe Biden’s ‘socialism’ on the first night of the Republican National Convention.
His girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host, went after the Democrat nominee’s ‘comrades who will fundamentally change the nation’ during her rollicking address to the GOP faithful.
The Republicans sought to paint Donald Trump as America’s guardian angel against unscrupulous socialist forces who want to overthrow all that the Founding Fathers stood for.
The President appeared in two segments, speaking to frontline workers and then to freed hostages and prisoners from overseas during the heavily-produced evening which largely avoided discussion of coronavirus.
Organizers rolled out ‘ordinary voters’ who praised Trump for his impact on their lives, including a cancer patient and a recipient of PPP bailout cash as they tried to present a diverse face of the party.
There was an emotional Cuban immigrant and black speakers for the event which began with a movie-style voiceover by Jon Voight and ended before 11pm EST.
Trump had said last week that he wanted more of his convention to be live than the Democrats’ but just three speeches were – those of Ronna McDaniel, the Republican Party chair, Nikki Haley, the former ambassador to the United Nations, and Tim Scott, the South Carolina senator.
But it was the pre-recorded speech of the president’s eldest son which stood out as the major political argument of the night and struck directly and forcefully at his father’s rival for the presidency.
‘This time the other party is attacking the very principles on which our Nation was founded,’ he said of Democrats, in a speech taped before it was aired.
He accused Biden, who has spent over 40 years in public office as a senator from Delaware and then as vice president, ‘the Loch Ness Monster of the Swamp’ – which is the nickname for Washington D.C.
