Trump Nominated As 2020 Republican Presidential Candidate

United States: President Donald Trump went into battle for a second term Monday with his nomination at a Republican convention where he will draw on all his showman’s instincts to try and change the narrative in an election he is currently set to lose.

There was no surprise in the party delegates’ landslide vote to nominate Trump, following a series of speeches lavishly praising the president at the convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

But Trump, the reality TV veteran and celebrity property developer, injected some of his personal brand of drama by showing up at the event, which has been drastically scaled back due to COVID-19 precautions.

Incumbents usually keep away from their party conventions until the finale when they deliver their acceptance speech, but Trump’s instinct is to stay in the limelight.

Facing anger over his handling of the crisis, he badly trails his Democratic opponent Joe Biden in the polls.

Trump is also weighed down by the growing turmoil in his inner circle, with former chief strategist Steve Bannon arrested last week on fraud charges and a current top advisor, Kellyanne Conway, announcing late Sunday that she was stepping down to spend time with her family.

The Republican insists, however, that he can replicate his surprise 2016 win — and hopes the convention will put the wind in his sails.

“This week we will take our case to the American people,” Vice President Mike Pence told delegates ahead of Trump’s arrival, promising to “make America great again — again.”

Trump and his family, which has had an unusual amount of influence and access at the White House during his tumultuous first term, will be omnipresent through the convention’s four days.

There’ll be First Lady Melania Trump’s speech in the Rose Garden on Tuesday and addresses by the president’s children, including right-wing firebrand son Don Jr, daughter-advisor Ivanka and daughter-in-law Lara Trump.

Trump’s acceptance speech is set for Thursday at the White House itself — a show of power trampling over the custom of separating political campaigns from the office of president.

In another move stretching etiquette, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will make a speech on his behalf while conducting an official trip to Israel.

Democrats staged a well-honed production at their all-online convention last week, culminating with Biden’s emotional pledge to be an “ally of the light” after the “darkness” of Trump.

The Republican president, however, has years of his experience in television and has reportedly brought in two of the producers on his old reality TV show “The Apprentice” to help out.

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