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Post by Admin on Aug 17, 2020 21:43:53 GMT
The Democratic National Convention is this week, and it won't look like any other in history. Democrats have moved their convention online because of health concerns due to the coronavirus pandemic, and Joe Biden will accept the Democratic nomination for president in a virtual address.
The four nights of programming will feature speeches from politicians, music performances from stars, and will allow Democrats to make their pitch to the American people before ballots are cast this fall.
Here's everything you need to know about how to watch this year's Democratic convention. When is the convention? The convention is scheduled to take place Monday through Thursday this week, and each night of programming will air from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET.
How can I watch the convention on TV and online? CNN will air special convention coverage from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. ET for the duration of the Democratic convention live on CNN, CNN en Español and CNN International.
CNN's reporting, live updates and analysis of the convention will be available all week on CNN.com and will feature a live stream of the convention speeches, without requiring authentication, on CNN.com's homepage and on mobile web.
CNN's Democratic National Convention coverage will also stream live, with a log-in to a cable provider, on CNNgo (at CNN.com/go on your desktop, smartphone and iPad, and via CNNgo apps for Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Android TV, Chromecast, Roku and Samsung Smart TV). Who is scheduled to speak each night?
Monday Former first lady Michelle Obama, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, Convention Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin, former Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. Actress Eva Longoria will emcee.
Tuesday Former acting US Attorney General Sally Yates, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, former Secretary of State John Kerry, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware, former President Bill Clinton and former second lady Dr. Jill Biden. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross will emcee.
Wednesday Democratic vice presidential nominee and Sen. Kamala Harris of California, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and former President Barack Obama. Actress Kerry Washington will emcee.
Thursday Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware and the Biden family. Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfuss will emcee. The Democratic National Convention Committee said additional speakers will be announced.
Which musical acts are performing? Leon Bridges, The Chicks, Common, Billie Eilish, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Billy Porter, Maggie Rogers, Prince Royce, Stephen Stills and others will be performing throughout the four nights, according to the DNCC. Youth choir members representing each of the 57 states and territories will also perform the National Anthem Monday night, according to the DNCC.
Where will Joe Biden accept the nomination? Biden will not accept the Democratic presidential nomination in Milwaukee, the original site of the convention, because of concerns caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, Biden and Harris will deliver their convention speeches from the Chase Center in Biden's hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, spokesman Michael Gwin confirmed to CNN.
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Post by Admin on Aug 18, 2020 5:54:36 GMT
Biden is attempting to take office amid a world-historic crisis, which has already claimed more American lives than World War I, Korea, and Vietnam combined and has produced the highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression. By May, advisers were telling New York magazine’s Gabriel Debenedetti that Biden wanted an “FDR-sized” administration. There are aspects of Biden’s policy agenda that rise to this level of ambition. To tackle Covid-19, he’s promised nationwide testing, a 100,000-person Public Health Jobs Corps, hazard pay for essential workers, massive vaccine stockpiles produced ahead of approval for the speediest deployment, and much more. His economic recovery plan would pay health insurance costs for newly unemployed people, offer middle-class parents and caretakers $8,000 a year for child or long-term care support, spend $700 billion on manufacturing and R&D to expand jobs in those sectors, and make it easier to organize unions. His climate plan features $2 trillion in investments in clean energy and a clean electricity standard mandating that electricity production in the US not produce any carbon by the year 2035. But there is a tension between this ambition and the man himself. For all of the avowed boldness of an agenda shaped by Covid-19, the man pitching it remains … Joe Biden. He is a creature of the establishment, a product of a Democratic Party built for the (relative) boom times of the 1980s and ’90s, a Senate from a less polarized era, and an Obama administration that believed it could transcend Washington (it could not). When you talk to his campaign, you can see glimpses of that Biden. Yes, he’s proposing these multitrillion-dollar plans — but his advisers insist he’s a deficit hawk at heart. “The vice president has said from the beginning of the campaign that he wants to show how he’s going to pay for all of the long-term costs of the investments that he makes,” senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan, who also served as a key policy staffer to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and was Biden’s national security adviser in 2013-14, says. His campaign also seemed to back away from an earlier hint that Biden might support blowing up the Senate filibuster if the Republicans abuse it to block his agenda. Biden “has not supported the elimination of the filibuster,” Sanders told me. “I don’t think anyone should read his comments as saying he supports that.”
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Post by Admin on Aug 19, 2020 5:19:21 GMT
Jill Biden closed out the second night of the Democratic National Convention describing her husband in deeply personal terms as a loving father and supportive husband who rebuilt his family after tragedy -- and would now be able to heal a deeply divided nation.
Speaking both as an educator who pursued her own career as Joe Biden worked as a senator in Washington, she compared the fracture she helped heal in her husband's family after the death of his first wife, Neilia, and 1-year-old daughter, Naomi, in a 1972 car accident to the emotional hollowness of America in the time of a pandemic.
"How do you make a broken family whole? The same way you make a nation whole: with love and understanding, and with small acts of compassion; with bravery; with unwavering faith," Jill Biden continued.
She explained how they worked together as a couple to create a strong blended family with a sense of determination and resilience, which helped them weather the second great tragedy of Biden's life: the death of his son Beau Biden, a former Delaware attorney general, from brain cancer in 2015.
"We found that love holds a family together. Love makes us flexible and resilient," she said. "It allows us to become more than ourselves -- together. And though it can't protect us from the sorrows of life, it gives us refuge -- a home."
Noting Biden's sense of duty to the people who elected him, she said there have been times when she couldn't imagine "how he did it—how he put one foot in front of the other and kept going," she said. "But I've always understood why he did it. ... He does it for you."
Without mentioning President Donald Trump, she argued that the nation needs someone to heal it at a time when the President's first instinct has been to divide Americans even in the midst of a deadly pandemic that has claimed more than 170,000 American lives.
"The burdens we carry are heavy, and we need someone with strong shoulders," she said. "I know that if we entrust this nation to Joe, he will do for your family what he did for ours: bring us together and make us whole."
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Post by Admin on Aug 20, 2020 6:32:03 GMT
Harris made history as she became the first Black woman and first Asian American to join a major party’s presidential ticket. Harris underscored the historic nature of her nomination by reflecting on the women who helped her reach this moment, including her mother, who immigrated to America from India. Harris said of her, “She probably could have never imagined that I would be standing before you now speaking these words: I accept your nomination for vice president of the United States of America.” Former congresswoman Gabby Giffords delivered a moving speech tonight, in which she noted her ongoing struggles since she was shot at an event with constituents in 2011. “Today I struggle to speak, but I have not lost my voice,” Giffords said. “America needs all of us to speak out, even when you have to fight to find the words.” Some more context on the Trump campaign’s assertion tonight that Kamala Harris is the “most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, with a voting record even further to the left than Bernie Sanders” It’s true that non-partisan GovTrack ranked Harris as the “most liberal compared to All Senators” in part because she joined bipartisan bills very rarely. While Harris supports many relatively progressive policies, she stepped back from Sanders’ vision f Medicare fr All and maintained that private insurance companies should still play a role in the American health care system. Her record before she became senator has also alientated her from many progressives. “Our analysis is at odds with her documented pre-Congress career of being pragmatic or moderate, and it remains to be seen which part of her career, her actions as a district attorney and Attorney General or her policy proposals in Congress – would be reflected greater in a Biden administration,” Josh Tauberer, GovTrack founder told the Sacramento Bee.
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Post by Admin on Aug 21, 2020 5:29:44 GMT
Former Vice President Joe Biden formally took the reins of the Democratic Party on Thursday night in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, assuming the role of standard-bearer in an impassioned speech that culminated a more than 30-year pursuit of the nomination. After Democrats nominated Biden for the presidency in a reconstructed virtual roll call on Tuesday night, he formally accepted inside a mostly empty room, filled with only a small press pool. His speech marked the official end of the primary, and the party's shift to the general election, just 75 days away. Democrats capped off four days of virtual celebrations by focusing on making the case for Biden -- and contrasting him with President Donald Trump. The themes of the night covered family, the military, voting rights, the economy, the working class, and, most of all, Biden. After almost half a century in public life, Biden delivered the most significant speech of his lengthy career -- one that he put a "tremendous" amount of effort into, according to an aide. The address, which spanned roughly 30 minutes, marked the climax of a storied career that included decades in the Senate, eight years as the No. 2 in the White House and two failed bids for the presidency -- in 1988 and 2008. It was also the first time he delivered an acceptance speech for the presidential nomination. "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. I will be an ally of the light, not the darkness. It is time for us, for we, the people, to come together," Biden said, just before he formally accepted the nomination. The speech sought to meet the unprecedented moment of crisis, with the convention unfolding against the backdrop of a pandemic, a tumultuous economy and a country wrestling with an introspection on race. Biden's long-held ambitions for the highest office in the country appeared secondary to his dedication to restoring steady and effective leadership to a nation in disarray. "This campaign isn't just about winning votes. It's about winning the heart and, yes, the soul of America," he said, reiterating the message with which he launched his campaign last April. "This is a life-changing election. It will determine what America will look like for a long, long time," he said. "Character is on the ballot. Compassion is on the ballot. Decency, science, democracy. They're all on the ballot. Who we are as a nation, what we stand for and most importantly, who we want to be, that's all on the ballot. And the choice could not be more clear." The newly minted nominee pitched his vision for the presidency as one that goes beyond partisanship and schisms -- touting his ability to unify what is broken. "I will be an American president. I'll work hard for those who didn't support me, as hard for them as I did for those who did vote for me," he said. "That's the job of a president, to represent all of us, not just our base or our party. This is not a partisan moment. This must be an American moment."
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