Vice-president expected to speak on ‘law and order’ and emphasize support for standing during national anthem
Donald Trump’s coronation as the Republican presidential nominee continues on Wednesday evening with a convention address by his faithful lieutenant, Vice-President Mike Pence, and several Republican rising stars, as unrest in Wisconsin following the police shooting of Jacob Blake threatens to overshadow the choreographed proceedings.
Pence is due to speak from Fort McHenry in Baltimore, where the raising of the American flag during the war of 1812 inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem that would later become The Star-Spangled Banner.
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