Red meat for Trump’s base dominates Night 2 of the Republican National Convention

“Biden has pledged to Defund the Police and take away our Cherished Second Amendment,” Eric Trump, the president’s son, falsely claimed in his speech Tuesday. In reality, Biden has repeatedly said he would not do either of those things. 

“The Biden-Harris vision for America leaves no room for people of faith,” Cissie Graham, the granddaughter of televangelist Billy Graham, claimed during her speech. In reality, both Biden and Harris are Christians: Biden is Catholic and Harris identifies as Baptist.

But that didn’t deter Graham. “Whether you’re a baker, a florist, or a football coach, they will force the choice between being obedient to God, or to Caesar. Because the radical Left’s god is government power,” she said. 

For conservative Christians listening to Graham, her reference to the “baker” and the “florist” would have been a crystal clear: Two landmark court cases regarding so-called religious liberty centered on whether a Christian baker and a Christian florist could deny service to gay people.

Other speakers attacked the media, a favorite pastime of the president’s. Trump’s daughter Tiffany Trump told viewers to “recognize that our thoughts, opinions, and even the choice of who we vote for are being manipulated and invisibly coerced by the media and tech giants.”

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