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After this election, the LDP has returned to its backside-up nomination process. At a press convention a day later, Trump known as Pence "a man of honor, character, and honesty." Days later, Pence accepted his party’s vice presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. In February 2020, President Trump introduced that Vice President Pence would lead the administration’s response to the coronavirus, which originated in China and was spreading around the globe. After his term as vice president, Pence signed a multimillion greenback, two-e book deal with Simon & Schuster. In 2015, Duterte confirmed his hyperlinks to extrajudicial killings in Davao, and warned that, if elected president, he may kill up to 100,000 criminals; he challenged human rights officials to file a case against him if they may provide proof of his hyperlinks with vigilante groups. Duterte has denied responsibility for the extrajudicial killings. Extrajudicial killings that were allegedly committed by the Davao Death Squad between 1998 and 2016 throughout Duterte's mayoralty have additionally been scrutinized by human-rights groups and the Office of the Ombudsman. |
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