Trump campaign officials repeatedly promised an uplifting national convention. The president opened the week on a different note. He criticized governors as being unprepared for the pandemic and warned that the push for mail-in voting was “the greatest scam in the history of politics.”“They are trying to steal the election from Republicans,” Mr. Trump said in remarks in Charlotte, N.C., where the GOP held the first part of its Monday convention events. In 2016, he won three states that are now presidential battlegrounds—Arizona, Florida and Michigan—with high ratios of mail-in voting. The first of four nights of the Republican National Convention—which is partly pretaped and partly filmed live in Washington due to the pandemic—included speeches from Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.) and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who are seen as potential future presidential candidates, in addition to a handful of lawmakers, friends of the president and people affected by his policies.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 25, 2020 11:03 UTC