Mike Pence calls Democratic National Convention 'grim, negative and very hostile' after Democratic nominee Joe Biden torches Donald Trump's 'season of darkness' and promises 'light and hope'

Vice President Mike Pence complained Friday morning that the Democratic National Convention was 'grim' and 'very negative, very hostile' after Democratic nominee Joe Biden torched President Donald Trump's tenure as the nation's 'season of darkness.' 

'I didn't get to watch a lot of it but the parts that I saw over the course of the whole week painted a very grim picture of the United States of America. It was very negative, very hostile,' Pence said on Fox Business Network. 

Speaking specifically to Biden's speech, Pence said the former vice president held a 'very, very negative view of America,' as the current vice president did a tour of the morning shows to counter the Democrat's message.      

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Vice President Mike Pence called the Democratic National Convention 'grim, negative and very hostile' after Democratic nominee called the Trump administration the nation's 'season of darkness' 

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President Donald Trump abandoned his usual attacks on Democratic nominee Joe Biden's mental fitness to say that his nomination acceptance speech was 'just words' 

Trump tweeted, 'In 47 years, Joe did none of the things of which he now speaks. He will never change, just words!' 

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Biden had just given a speech to the livestreamed convention audience in which he proclaimed 'character is on the ballot' 

Meanwhile, Trump was uncharacteristically silent on Twitter.   

The night before he had abandoned his normal all-caps attacks on Biden's mental fitness to say all the Democrat was promising was 'just words.'   

'In 47 years, Joe did none of the things of which he now speaks. He will never change, just words!' Trump tweeted as the Democratic nominee closed out his speech. 

Pence echoed that line Friday morning on 'Fox & Friends.'

'Well look, Joe Biden has been in Washington for 47 years, and the speech he gave last night was just more of the same talk that we’ve heard from him and other liberal Democrat politicians for the decades, and the contrast between what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are offering and President Donald Trump I think is the difference between a talker and a doer,' Pence argued.  

Biden concluded the four-day Democratic convention by flaming Trump's record, telling Americans that 'character is on the ballot' and panning the administration's response to the coronavirus crisis.  

Biden positioned himself as the candidate who was the side of goodness, empathy, and inclusivity in his speech Thursday night, as he reminded viewers of the livestreamed convention about Trump's words following the racial unrest in Charlottesville in 2017 and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. 

'Compassion is on the ballot. Decency, science, democracy. They are all on the ballot,' Biden said. 

'Here and now, I give you my word: If you entrust me with the presidency, I will draw on the best of us not the worst,'he pledged. 

'I will be an ally of the light not of the darkness.'

He concluded his remarks by saying, 'love is more powerful than hate.'  

'Hope is more powerful than fear. Light is more powerful than dark,' Biden said. 

'May history be able to say that the end of this chapter of American darkness began here tonight as love and hope and light joined in the battle for the soul of the nation,' he stated.  

And while much of what Biden said during the address, where he properly accepted the Democratic nomination, he had said in his stump speeches, he put a new polish on it.  

He addressed a darkened room, filled only with reporters and some staff, using a teleprompter, with lines under some words - likely the trick Biden taught a young stutter-er who appeared earlier in the convention to talk about how the ex-vice president had become his mentor.  

Biden again tells Americans that 'character is on the ballot'

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Jill Biden, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff finished the DNC with the kind of fanfare Trump loves, with fireworkers and cheers from supporters 

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Supporters of Democratic nominee Joe Biden watch a fireworks display at the end of the DNC in parked cars outside the Chase Center of Biden's hometown of Wilmington, Delaware 

One night earlier, Trump was blasting former Democratic President Barack Obama, who had delivered a more blistering indictment of the president's record.

'HE SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN, AND GOT CAUGHT!' Trump roared. 

'WHY DID HE REFUSE TO ENDORSE SLOW JOE UNTIL IT WAS ALL OVER, AND EVEN THEN WAS VERY LATE? WHY DID HE TRY TO GET HIM NOT TO RUN?' Trump wrote. 

Biden also concluded the DNC in a Trump-ian fashion - with supporters and a made-for-TV moment. 

He walked to the parking lot outside to greet supporters who had parked cars to view the night's programming like they were at a drive-in movie theater. 

They honked, yelled and held up signs and American flags as Biden and his wife Jill and his running mate Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff watched fireworks overhead. 

'Welcome to Wilmington,' Biden said, grinning, as he had pulled down his mask.