Bleak vision aired at Republican convention

WASHINGTON－US Republicans launched the 2020 Republican National Convention on Monday with a full-throated endorsement of President Donald Trump's record and laid out a bleak vision of how life in the US would change for the worse under a Joe Biden administration.

Trump, having claimed the party's unanimous nomination earlier in the day as he opened his bid for a second term, was portrayed as a president whose response to the coronavirus pandemic saved thousands of lives and ensured an economic recovery.

The latest poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, however, showed that public approval of Trump's handling of the pandemic has dropped to 31 percent.