US Vice President Mike Pence accepts Republican renomination to VP's post

NEW YORK: US Vice President Mike Pence has officially accepted the Republican Party's nomination for a second term in office, declaring that in November "the choice in this election is whether America remains America".

Pence, who will be ranged against Kamala Harris, the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, painted her and party's presidential candidate Joe Biden with the brush of radicalism in his acceptance speech on Wednesday night from the historic Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland.

He and other convention speakers associated Biden and Harris, who personally are moderates, with the voluble radical wing of the party - from which they are hesitant to openly dissociate and to criticise.

Making a robust nationalist statement, Pence repeatedly hit out at Biden, calling him weak on foreign policy and unable to stand up to violent rioters.

Fittingly he spoke to the convention from Fort McHenry, a symbol of nationalism where Americans defended Baltimore Harbor from the British in the War of 1812 and inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner," the country's national anthem..

The Vice President's soft-spoken, thoughtful demeanour is very different from President Donald Trump's assertive manners that are often called bombastic. (IANS)

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