TRUMP TO SLAM ‘EXTREME’ BIDEN IN ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AT RNC

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump plans to tell voters that Democratic rival Joe Biden would pursue the “most extreme set of proposals ever put forward by a major party nominee” when he delivers his acceptance speech on Thursday night at the Republican National Convention.

Trump has complained that the Democrats’ message was too dark when they held their own convention last week. But excerpts of the US president’s prepared remarks suggest he too will have negative things to say, excoriating Biden, who ran a centrist campaign for the Democratic nomination. “At no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies or two agendas,” Trump is expected to say. “We spent the last four years reversing the damage Joe Biden inflicted over the last 47 years.”

PENCE CALLS BIDEN A LEFT ‘TROJAN HORSE’

US vice-president Mike Pence painted an ominous picture of America if Biden is elected president, as he accepted the Republican nomination to seek a second term on Wednesday. Calling Biden a “Trojan Horse for a radical left”, Pence reprised the Trump campaign’s chief arguments. He delivered his acceptance speech from Fort Mchenry monument in Baltimore.