Fashionable to say America is racist, that's a lie: Nikki Haley

Speakers at scaled-back convention hail Covid response by the president, who again decried mail-in ballots

US President Trump and his political allies mounted a fierce and misleading defense of his political record on the first night of the Republican convention on Monday, while unleashing a barrage of attacks on Joseph R Biden Jr and the Democratic Party that were unrelenting in their bleakness.

Hours after Republican delegates formally nominated Trump for a second term, the president and his party made plain that they intended to engage in sweeping revisionism about Trump’s management of the pandemic, his record on race relations and much else. And they laid out a dystopian picture of what the US would