Trump, in convention speech, to decry Biden, radical forces

“At no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies or two agendas.”The Democratic agenda, he said, “is the most extreme set of proposals ever put forward by a major party nominee.”As his speech brings the scaled-back Republican National Convention to a close, Trump risks inflaming a divided nation reeling from a series of calamities, including the pandemic, a major hurricane that slammed into the Gulf Coast and nights of racial unrest and violence after a Black man was shot by a white Wisconsin police officer. The president was to declare that his administration had struck a $750 million deal to acquire 150 million tests from Abbott Laboratories to be deployed in nursing homes, schools and other areas with populations at high risk.Four years ago, Trump declared in his acceptance speech that “I alone can fix” the nation’s woes, but he has found himself asking voters for another term at the nadir of his presidency, amid a devastating pandemic, crushing unemployment and real uncertainties about schools and businesses reopening.Another one million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, in numbers released Thursday.