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| Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden attacked President Donald Trump's "law and order" message toward violent protests and asked voters whether they really felt safer with the 180,000 deaths from COVID-19 and a rising homicide rate this year. |
| "Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters?" Biden asked in a 24-minute speech in Pittsburgh. "I want a safe America - safe from COVID, safe from crime and looting, safe from racially motivated violence, safe from bad cops." |
| During the Republican National Convention last week, Trump and his supporters repeatedly argued protests and unrest would grow if Biden wins the Nov. 3 election and falsely claimed Biden had not condemned violent demonstrators. |
| In his closing RNC speech Thursday, Trump said, "No one will be safe in Biden's America." |
| Biden countered that the violent crime fell 15% while he was vice president in the Obama administration, but that the homicide rate is up 26% this year under Trump. COVID-19 has killed 180,000 Americans. And the Social Security actuary projected that the program would be permanently depleted by 2023 if the country abandoned the payroll tax that funds it, as Trump has proposed. |
| "Do you really feel safer under Donald Trump?" Biden asked. |
Did RNC speakers know history? |
| Abraham Lincoln. James Madison. The Declaration of Independence. Socialism. Impeachment. |
| Speakers at the Republican National Convention last week used United States history to make the case President Donald Trump should be reelected to a second term. |
| However, many of the historical references and examples used were inaccurate, misleading, omitted important facts and clarifications, or were unverifiable. |
| Here are some of those historical claims mentioned at the RNC. |
Did SCOTUS help abortion activists? |
| The Supreme Court's decision in June striking down a Louisiana restriction on abortion clinics is giving abortion opponents an unlikely opportunity in other states. |
| Officials in Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Oklahoma have in recent weeks argued that the high court's 5-4 ruling actually bolsters their defense of anti-abortion laws, even though the justices ruled against Louisiana. |
| The states' arguments coincide with a federal appeals court decision earlier this month reinstating several abortion restrictions in Arkansas, which was based in part on the Supreme Court's seemingly pro-choice ruling. |
What else is going on? |
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