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President Donald Trump on Thursday accepted the Republican nomination for the 2020 race against Democrat Joe Biden in a speech that harshly criticized his opponent's record, railed against "cancel culture," and repeatedly invoked a sinister image of a "socialist agenda."

 have argued that Trump would restore "law and order" and make America a safer country than Biden. Republicans often have focused more on what they call a bleak future under Democrats rather than on the record of Trump's actions over the last four years. 

From the Republican National Convention

With Trump’s promise of ‘record prosperity’

Trump's address comes a week after Joe Biden promised to lead the country out of a "season of darkness." (

Read our annotation of Biden's speech here

Trump, who spoke at the end of the Thursday evening program of other speakers, discussed the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, for which he promised a vaccine by the end of the year,

 and unrest in Kenosha, Wis., where the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by police led to protests, followed by another 

NPR reporters provided fact checks and analysis of Trump's remarks live. Read the annotations below.  

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President Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president on Thursday. NPR reporters providing analysis of his remarks. 

Fact check: Trump's address to the Republican convention, annotated

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