President Donald Trump
will draw on all his showman’s instincts at the Republican National Convention
to garner the votes for upcoming US Presidential elections on November 3.
According to a report in AFP, he will urge the Americans to look beyond his
handling of the coronavirus pandemic and return him to the White House for a
second term.

The report further
stated that Trump trails Democratic opponent Joe Biden in the polls. However,
the Republican insists he can repeat his 2016 win and hopes the convention will
launch his surprise comeback.

Just like the
Democratic National Convention, which was held virtually, the Republican National
Convention, too, will largely be online.

Unlike standard
conventions, where the candidate stays mostly out of the way until the last
night, Trump is expected to be in the limelight all four days.

His family, which has
had an unusual amount of influence and access at the White House during his
tumultuous first term, will also be omnipresent.

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 climactic
speech on Thursday, which the Republicans hope to follow with fireworks, will
be delivered at the White House itself.

Trump faces an uphill
struggle against Biden, who is tapping into massive unhappiness with the
president’s handling of the pandemic, unrest over racial inequality and fear of
long term economic damage from the coronavirus shutdown.

Beyond bread and
butter issues, Trump’s abrasive style, his habit of insulting people he doesn’t
like in public, his demonisation of journalists, and almost total inability to
talk to Democratic leaders has left the country divided and exhausted.

After the Democrats
used their convention to promise national healing, Trump sought to turn the
issue on its head, accusing his opponents of being the ones going negative.

“They spent four
straight days attacking America as racist and a horrible country that must be
redeemed,” he said Friday. “Where Joe Biden sees American darkness, I
see American greatness.”