The first night of the US Republican National Convention on Monday passed with harsh diatribes directed at the Democratic Party, with President Donald Trump painting a bleak picture of the future for the American people under a Joe Biden administration and leveling the accusation that Democrats seek to “steal” the forthcoming election.
Trump, who had earlier in the day won the Republican Party’s official nomination for the November vote, appeared at the convention venue in Charlotte, North Carolina, to deliver his speech, long expected to be littered with broadsides against his rival.
The Republican president asked his party delegates to be on alert for what he claimed was a Democratic plan to rig the election by expanding the use of mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic.
“They are trying to steal the election,” Trump told the delegates without providing any evidence. “The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election.”
This is while postal voting is a method that has already been in wide use in the United States, and Democrats say the measure would be needed to protect people from contracting COVID-19 in crowded polling stations.
In a series of tweets last month, Trump said that mail-in voting would make the November election the “most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history” and a “great embarrassment to the USA.”
Trump’s resistance to absentee voting has been largely discredited by political experts as an attempt to make up an excuse to challenge the result of the upcoming election if he is defeated.
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