2020 elections: Democrats officially nominate Biden, Republicans will hold a private convention

Joe Biden is the official Democratic nominee for the US presidential elections in November. These are the results of the voting of the party congress, which was held mainly online, writes Air force.

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Officially, who became the Democratic candidate will be announced on Thursday, August 20, when Biden accepts the offer to run for president.

Joe Biden was effectively the only Democratic candidate after his last competitor, Bernie Sanders, dropped out of the race.

From the Republicans, he will be opposed by the current US President Donald Trump.

Now in opinion polls, President Trump is inferior to Joe Biden.

The choice of party members was congratulated by two Democratic presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, as well as former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

As Clinton said, incumbent President Donald Trump has brought "chaos" to the Oval Office, whereas in times of trouble such as now, this place should become a "command center."

This is the third attempt by 77-year-old Joe Biden to get to the highest government office in the United States. He was also nominated in 1988 and 2008.

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Joe Biden also served as vice president during the time of President Barack Obama.

From 2014 to January 2017, Joe Biden was actually in charge of the Ukrainian direction of US foreign policy. During this time, he made several visits to Ukraine and contributed to the dismissal of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.

It was Biden's demand for the Ukrainian authorities to dismiss Shokin, as well as the work of Biden's son on the supervisory board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, that Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his team tried to use in the election campaign.

Donald Trump's telephone conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky, where the US President mentioned this topic, led to the start of an impeachment investigation in the US Congress.

GOP convention will be closed for the first time in history

For the first time in recent history, the pre-election convention of the US Republican Party will be held closed to the press, CNN and other American media reported. At this congress, Donald Trump is to be announced as the presidential candidate from the Republican Party, writes «Medusa».

The convention will take place August 21-24 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The organizers explain the decision to hold the congress in a format closed to the press by the restriction on the number of participants in public events, which operates in North Carolina due to the coronavirus.

Due to COVID-19, all delegates will not be able to come to the congress, only 336 people will be present, each of whom will vote for six party members.

The Republican Party promises that the very vote for the presidential candidate will be broadcast online.

However, American journalists are not satisfied with this. Zeke Miller of the Associated Press, who heads the White House journalists' association, called the decision to close the convention "unfortunate" and urged organizers to think about it again.

“The mainstream nomination is highly American,” he stressed.

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The White House under Donald Trump has repeatedly come into conflict with journalists covering the work of the US President. So, in 2018, CNN journalist Jim Acosta, who entered into public skirmishes with Donald Trump, was deprived of accreditation in the White House. Acosta returned the accreditation through the court.

In July, Donald Trump announced that the US presidential election, scheduled for November 3, can be carried over due to the difficult situation with the spread of COVID-19. Trump does not have the authority to postpone elections; only Congress can do that. The US President had to clarify that he only warned about the risk of fraud in mass voting by mail, and he himself supports the holding of elections on time.

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