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  Republican National Convention Day 4 - Sen. Mitch Mc Connell  CSPAN  August 28, 2020 3:07am-3:13am EDT

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no one who has seen the face of war desires to see it again. aremany fellow americans honored already i darlie -- at arlington. weaknesses provocative. president trump's strength has kept us out of war. joe biden won't stand up for america. donald trump will. this november, let's stand with the president senator mcconnell: good evening. it is an honor to come to you tonight from the commonwealth of kentucky. i consider it my responsibility to look out for the middle of america. this election is consequential for middle america. president trump inherited the first generation of americans
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who couldn't promise their children a better life than their own. hisas made it a mission of administration to change that. i know, because i have worked beside him every day. today's democrat doesn't want to improve life for middle america. they prefer all of us in flyover lettry keep flying, and them decide how we should live our lives. they want to tell you when you can go to work, when your kids can go to school, they want to tax your job out of existence and then send you a government check for unemployment. they want to tell you what kind of our you can drive, what sources of information are credible, and even how many hamburgers you can eat. they want to defund the police and take away your second amendment rights. they want free health care for illegal immigrants yet they offer no protection for unborn americans.
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they want to pack the supreme court with liberals intent on eroding our constitutional rights, and the want of 5 -- and they want to quantify all this by making the swamp america's 51st states. we can't undo the damage they have done. now you understand why democrats spent a week telling us about who joe biden is, not what he intends to do. i'm proud of the work the republican senate has done. we are the firewall against nancy pelosi's agenda. like president trump, we won't be bullied by a liberal media intent on destroying america's institutions. we will stand our post on be half of the millions of americans whose stories are told in the newspapers, whose struggles are just as real. we will continue to support american families as we defeat the coronavirus and return our economy to the envy of the world. the stakes have never been higher.
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which is why i am asking you to support republican senate candidates across the country >> sunday night on q&a, the author of the book "the president versus the press." >> stealing money from the treasury for indiscretions during the french-indian war. all sorts of charges that were against washington and when he wrote his farewell address, he drafted a paragraph later cut by his editor, alexander hamilton, that made it
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clear that when of the reasons he was not standing for a third could notecause he take the implications from newspapers any longer. harold holzer sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. ♪ the contenders about the men who ran for the presidency but lost. monday, thomas dewey. tuesday, adlai stevenson. wednesday, barry goldwater. -- saturday, george mcgovern. the contenders all next week at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. ♪ >> you're watching c-span. you're unfiltered view of government created by america's cable television companies as a
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public service am brought to you today by your television provider. next, remarks by democratic vice presidential candidate kamala harris on the coronavirus and its impact on the u.s. economy. senator harris: good afternoon.