Joe Biden of the day
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Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, said: “It’s most striking what the Republicans are not talking about, that Donald Trump just blew his platform to smithereens by choosing a vice-president [JD Vance] who wants a national abortion ban. And yet I haven’t heard a single mention of abortion from the stage.
“Last time Trump was in Wisconsin he kept repeating that he had won here and the election was stolen from him and there was widespread fraud and he needed to crack down on all these different forms of voting. It’s pretty clear that a Republican Party that is still totally committed to suppressing votes and overturning elections is not making a show of that from the national stage.”
Republicans addressing the convention have repeatedly accused Joe Biden of throwing open the southern border and welcoming killers, rapists and other criminals. But studies show that immigrants commit fewer crimes than people born in the US.
Wikler, who is inside the convention hall, added: “They can tell that the biggest issues in this election are actually toxic for them and so they’re resorting to fear of immigrants and fear of crime and grisly stories to try to push the country into the arms of a strongman instead of addressing the elephant in the room.
“What that misses is that, at dinner tables across the country, people are talking about what they will do if the Republican Project 2025 actually becomes a reality and they’re not doing anything to assuage those concerns. They’re just pretending that they don’t exist.”