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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
Politics
David Catanese and Alex Roarty

GOP embraces 'law and order' while downplaying pandemic: 6 takeaways from Trump's convention

WASHINGTON _ President Donald Trump unleashed a harsh series of attacks against Joe Biden Thursday night, casting his Democratic opponent as "the destroyer of American greatness" and framing the November election as a bitterly divisive clash between two irreconcilable slices of America.

"This election will decide whether we will defend the American way of life, or whether we allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it," Trump said in a 71-minute address accepting the GOP nomination.

Trump's sweeping address capped a Republican National Convention that veered between a fusillade of incendiary attacks meant to rouse the president's base and targeted stagecraft designed to improve his standing with voters of color and suburban women.

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