Pence: 'You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America'

Republicans aggressively defended law enforcement on third night of ir convention, as nation faced renewed tensions following police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Wisconsin, that sparked protests in a state that could decide fall election.

Vice President Mike Pence, evening's featured speaker, seized on national reckoning over racial injustice to argue that Democratic leers are allowing lawlessness to prevail in cities from coast to coast.

He and ors described cities wracked by violence, though protests in most locations have been largely peaceful.

He also assailed Democratic presidential minee Joe Biden for saying re is an "implicit bias" against mirities and "systemic racism" in U.S.

" hard truth is you won't be safe in Joe Biden's America," Pence said

Meanwhile, stey im Republicans were aiming to portray of President Donald Trump at convention was running into a turbulent outside reality: police shooting of Jacob Blake, 29, in Kesha, Wisconsin, potentially catastrophic hurricane bearing down on Gulf Coast, wildfires that have ravd huge areas of California and still-raging coronavirus pandemic that is killing more than 1,000 Americans a day.