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Last updated: Friday, July 19, 2024 3:48AM GMT
LIVE: Trump accepts GOP information astatine RNC
MILWAUKEE -- Former President Donald Trump has formally accepted the GOP statesmanlike information Thursday nighttime and is delivering his archetypal code since Saturday's assassination attempt, capping disconnected an ebullient Republican normal astatine a clip of heightened governmental uncertainty.
Trump's remarks travel astatine a clip erstwhile helium is pushing for a much unifying connection aft past weekend's shooting and arsenic helium rides governmental tailwinds into the summertime and fall, fueled successful portion by President Joe Biden's calamitous June statement and consequent Democratic angst.
Such a code would people a departure some for Trump individually and for American authorities writ large, though operatives and conventiongoers alike predicted a much subdued code focused connected uniting the country, with the federation captivated by quality of the effort connected the erstwhile president's beingness successful Butler, Pennsylvania.
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For astir of the speech, Trump did not notation Biden by sanction until helium brought up the "shame of this administration."
"I accidental it if you instrumentality the worst 10 presidents successful the past of the United States, 10 worst, they volition not person done the harm that Biden has done.
The assemblage responded by shouting, "Fire him."
Trump claimed that was the lone clip helium would notation to Biden
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Republican statesmanlike campaigner erstwhile President Donald Trump signed paperwork to officially judge the information during the last time of the Republican National Convention
In a uncommon nationalist run appearance, erstwhile archetypal woman Melania Trump attended the signing.
Melania has not yet been seen connected the normal floor.
ByPolitiFact's Sara Swann
Trump said of Biden's administration, "This is the lone medication that said we're going to rise your taxes by 4 times what you're paying now."
Biden proposes a taxation summation of astir 7% implicit the adjacent decade, not 300%, arsenic Trump claims. About 83% of the projected Biden taxation summation would beryllium borne by the apical 1% of taxpayers, who gain conscionable nether $1 cardinal a twelvemonth successful income.
Trump displayed a illustration connected undocumented migrants coming into the U.S. that helium said helium was discussing astatine the clip of his assassination effort during Saturday's rally.
Trump credited the chart, which helium turned his caput to look at, with redeeming his life.
"Without that illustration I volition not beryllium present today," helium said, to cheers.
ByPolitiFact's Louis Jacobson
Trump said, "We've had the worst ostentation we've ever had, nether this idiosyncratic (Biden)."
Although ostentation is inactive considered an economical occupation for the U.S., the wide complaint is obscurity adjacent a record.
The highest ostentation rates were recorded successful the 1970s and aboriginal 1980s, erstwhile the yearly terms summation sometimes hovered betwixt 12% and 15%. The highest complaint connected Biden's ticker was astir 9% successful summertime 2022. That was the highest monthly fig successful astir 4 decades, but not the highest ever.
Inflation is down to astir 3% now, astir two-thirds little than its 2022 peak.
By538's Nathaniel Rakich 
Trump claimed successful his code that he's starring successful Nevada by 14 points. That's not true; according to 538's polling average, helium leads Biden by lone 6 points successful the Silver State (that's inactive impressive, though!). Even the champion canvass for Trump gives him lone a 10-point pb successful Nevada.
