President, make our nation safe again,” Giuliani said.Giuliani, known to some as “America’s mayor,” was also a key part of the push to dig up dirt on Biden that led to Trump’s impeachment in the House and acquittal in the Senate. He had compassion and acted.”Trump has sought to make his actions on criminal justice reform central to his re-election bid. But he said Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, would dismantle institutions and destroy the economy.“The choice before you could not be clearer,” McCarthy said. “This towering America spirit has prevailed over every challenge and lifted us to the summit of human endeavors.”Still, the speech wasn’t totally devoid of trademark Trump: Early in his remarks, discussing the choice in the election, Trump described opponent Joe Biden as “radical” and warned against the ushering in of “socialist” policies. That exceeds the number of votes by which Trump won Michigan but is not as high as his 44,292 vote margin in Pennsylvania.Zoorob told USA TODAY that his study is consistent with the substantial scholarship in political science showing that well-organized, federated groups like the Fraternal Order of Police influence electoral politics.“However, I wouldn't overstate the importance of the findings,” he added.In Pennsylvania, the state where the Fraternal Order of Police was founded, and where, with 40,000 members, its membership is largest, the estimated effect was a 0.7 percentage point shift from Romney to Trump.“But in close elections,” he wrote in an email, “swings of that magnitude are important.”As President Donald Trump prepares to deliver his nomination acceptance speech, two separate Trump teams are inside and outside the White House getting ready for the big show.Inside, Trump aides are in their offices doing normal administration business.A visiting team of Trump and Republican National Committee officials, workers, and volunteers are outside putting the final touches on the stage for the Trump speech that will close the week-long GOP convention.Administration officials said they are keeping the work separate because of concerns about the Hatch Act, which forbids government employees from engaging in political activity on government property. ""Republicans, Independents, and even Democrats, they all know that in President Trump's America, we have a strong military, strong support for our police, strong support for our Veterans and seniors," the freshman congressman said. As campaign workers outside tested the sound system, employees inside the White House could hear the strains of opera icon Luciano Pavarotti belting out "Nessun dorma," which is Italian for "let no one sleep. Her parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, said the Obama administration vowed to do everything it could to investigate her abduction, but everything wasn’t enough.“We put all our faith in government, but the government let us down,” said Carl Mueller, who held a picture of his daughter.But the Muellers recounted how Trump ordered an Army special forces raid in Syria that resulted in al-Baghdadi’s death. Over the four-day spectacle, the Trump campaign appeared to cast aside widely accepted safety measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus despite the pandemic derailing their plans for a more traditional convention.Earlier this week First Lady Melania Trump spoke before roughly 100 seated guests in the newly renovated Rose Garden while Vice President Mike Pence was spotted shaking hands and fist-bumping audience members, many of whom were unmasked, after his speech before a crowd at Fort McHenry.Roger G. Darling, a former White House physician under President Bill Clinton and chief medical officer for Patronus Medical Corp, which partnered with the RNC for the event, said officials were working “to make certain proper protocols are in place to ensure the safety and well-being of individuals.”The protocols, which he declined to detail, are in “full compliance” with the Centers for Disease Control, the District of Columbia of Public Health and other leading authorities, he said.Though federal government employees are exempted from Washington, D.C., guidelines, city regulations currently prohibit gatherings of more than 50 people.White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said “a number of people will be tested,” but he would not specify how many. "Trump also talked that night about allegedly bad trade deals and lost jobs, attacked the Iran nuclear deal, and vowed to wage an aggressive war on terrorism.He attacked then-President Barack Obama and 2016 election opponent Hillary Clinton with kind of ferocity he is expected to reserve tonight for Joe Biden, according to excerpts of the speech provided by the Trump campaign.Those excerpts also included more positive lines like, "this towering American spirit has prevailed over every challenge, and lifted us to the summit of human endeavor.”Trump's speech, live from the White House, is scheduled to start at 10:28 p.m. ET.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will tell the Republican National Convention on Thursday that he looks out for middle America, in contrast to Democratic congressional leaders from New York and California.“This election is incredibly consequential for middle America,” McConnell said from Kentucky in prepared remarks obtained exclusively by USA TODAY. Even as president, Mr. Trump has often appeared most comfortable in the role of back-seat driver, jeering his own government like a common bystander, insisting that someone really ought to …