A parade of Republican speakers angrily cast the upcoming election as an extreme choice between Trump, defender of the American way of life, and a "rotten cabal" of left-wing activists who would destroy the United States.
"It's almost as if this election is shaping up to be church, work and school versus rioting, looting and vandalism, or in the words of Biden and the Democrats, 'peaceful protesting'," Donald Trump Jr, the president's son, said.
"If you're looking for hope, look to the man who did what the failed Obama-Biden Administration never could do, and built the greatest economy our country had ever seen," Trump Jr said.
"And President Trump will do it again," he said, one of the very few references on the night to the coronavirus pandemic and its devastating economic effect.
The convention began in Charlotte, North Carolina, and continued via pre-taped video feed from Washington, DC, in a hybrid convention limited by safety concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
Nikki Haley, the Trump to the UN said Trump has pursued an "America first" agenda in international affairs.
"Obama and Biden let North Korea threaten America. President Trump rejected that weakness, and we passed the toughest sanctions on North Korea in history," Haley said.
"Obama and Biden let Iran get away with murder and literally sent them a plane full of cash. President Trump did the right thing and ripped up the Iran nuclear deal," Haley said.
"Obama and Biden led the United Nations to denounce our friend and ally, Israel. President Trump moved our embassy to Jerusalem – and when the UN tried to condemn us, I was proud to cast the American veto," she said.
Speakers in the Republican programme warned repeatedly about an alleged socialist agenda behind the Democratic ticket of Joe Biden and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
"They want to destroy this country and everything we have fought for and hold near and dear," said Kimberly Guilfoyle, a conservative television personality and the girlfriend of Trump's son Donald Trump Jr
"They want to enslave you to the liberal, weak, dependent ideology to the point where you will not recognise yourself," Guilfoyle said.
"This is an election about a party that wants to burn the foundations of our country to the ground and a party that wants to rebuild and protect our great nation," said Representative Steve Scalise, a leading Republican member of the US House of Representatives.
Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the US Senate, described Trump's policy agenda for creating jobs through opportunity zones, school choice and tax cuts for small businesses
"We live in a world that only wants you to believe in the bad news, racially, economically and culturally polarising news," Scott said. "The truth is, our nation's arc always bends back towards fairness.""Make no mistake. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want a cultural revolution, a fundamentally different America. If we let them, they will turn our country into a socialist utopia," he said.
Repeatedly, speakers sought to characterise the Black Lives Matters protesters as radicals and a dangerous mob and claimed - incorrectly - that Biden's Democrats want to defund the police. Biden has explicitly rejected calls by some Black Lives Matter protesters to defund police.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the white suburban St Louis couple who waved semi-automatic guns at marching protesters, delivered pre-taped remarks in support of Trump.
MD Mujeeb Subhan
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