WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Republican National Convention (all times local): 12:45 p.m. More than 300 alumni of the most recent Republican…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Republican National Convention (all times local): 2:40 p.m. A group of activists hopes to drown out President Donald Trump’s speech as he accepts the Republican Party nomination at the White House. Trump is set to speak Thursday night from the South Lawn. As he does, a local band will be blaring Go-Go music, a distinctive D. C. variant on funk. The popular local band TOB will perform one block from the White House, with the goal of disrupting Trump’s speech. A longtime D. C. trademark, Go-Go music emerged last year as a battle anthem for activists fighting fast-moving gentrification in the nation’s capital. The music has been a regular presence in this summer’s protests against racial injustice, and rolling Go-Go trucks with live bands have appeared frequently at the epicenter of the protests, which was renamed by the city as Black Lives Matter Plaza. ___ 1:15 p.m. President Donald Trump’s acceptance speech will be a hard-hitting verbal offensive against his Democratic opponent in which he’ll call Joe Biden “an empty shell of a candidate, a Trojan horse of a candidate.” Standing at the White House to accept his party’s presidential nomination, Trump will say that his administration has spent the past four years reversing the “damage Joe Biden inflicted over the last 47 years,” according to excerpts released first to Politico and later by the Trump campaign. “At no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies or two agendas,” Trump is to say in remarks addressing the economy and trade, immigration, crime, a rising threat from China and his own response to the coronavirus pandemic. “At the Democrat convention, you barely heard a word about their agenda. But that’s not because they don’t have one. It’s because their agenda is the most extreme set of proposals ever put forward by a major party nominee.” Trump’s address will be hard-hitting because his aides claim the media’s coverage of the GOP convention has filtered out comments criticizing Biden’s policies.
