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President Donald Trump on Monday appeared in person at the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, delivering remarks in which he blasted White House rival Joe Biden and Democratic governors such as North Carolina’s Roy Cooper.
“I felt an obligation to be here,” Trump said. “You have a governor who’s in a total shutdown mood. I guarantee on Nov. 4, it’ll open up.”
The president claimed Democratic governors “love shut down until after the election is over, because they want to make our numbers look as bad as possible for the economy.”
Trump and his fellow Republicans have been expected to aggressively counterattack the Democrats and their presidential nominee at this week’s GOP convention, a four-day affair that is expected to make the case it is Trump and not Biden who can revive the pandemic-battered U.S. economy.
Trump on Monday described North Carolina as a state “that’s been very good to me.”
“We won a lot of victories here,” the Republican incumbent said.
“I do want to show a little bit of a difference, because another state that’s been very good to me is Wisconsin. And Joe Biden was going to have their convention in Milwaukee, and they didn’t go there at all, they didn’t do this. We did this out of respect for your state.”
Wisconsin was picked to host last week’s Democratic National Convention, but Biden and other top Democrats chose not to travel to Milwaukee, as their convention became a largely virtual event due ongoing public health concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic.
