Republican convention live updates: Trump to deliver address from South Lawn of the White House

President Trump is scheduled to cap off the fourth and final night of the Republican National Convention with a speech delivered in front a live audience on the South Lawn of the White House after greeting supporters at his hotel in Washington earlier in the day.Trump’s address comes on a day that Hurricane Laura arrived onshore in southern Louisiana as a Category 4 storm. Graham (R-S.C.), who five years ago called Trump a “race-baiting” bigot, said in an interview broadcast Thursday that he has come to realize that the president isn’t racist and that he likes people who like him, regardless of their skin color.“No, I don’t think he’s racist,” Graham said on the Snapchat show “Good Luck America.” “Here’s what I think: You can be black as coal, and if you like him, he likes you. Thursday’s event is arranged by Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee for the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee, the officials said.Vice President Pence and other Trump allies made their most pointed pitch yet to American voters on the third night of the Republican National Convention: Support them, or the “looting” and protests — all happening under President Trump’s watch — will continue to tear apart U.S. cities.They’re aiming to make law and order the central message in the campaign against Joe Biden, who they argue is complicit in calls to defund the police made by far-left extremists (he opposes defunding the police).“You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America,” Pence claimed before a crowd at Fort McHenry in Baltimore.Read the full story here.For years, Neimat Awadelseid had looked forward to the moment she would become a U.S. citizen — but she never dreamed her naturalization ceremony would happen at the White House.Even after she received a call inviting her to the White House for the ceremony, she did not know the president would be there until moments before it began.