Emerging out of a jammed program -- compressed into fewer hours, though spread among far more places -- is a Biden vision that draws on personal tragedy as well as professional partnerships. It's decency vs. The same way you make a nation whole -- with love and understanding, and with small acts of kindness," Jill Biden said. Night two of the Democratic National Convention ended with a promise from the nominee himself: "I'll see you soon.
While Joe Biden was referring to his speech on Thursday -- when he'll cap off the four-day virtual convention with his acceptance speech for the party's nomination -- on Tuesday night, he was never far.
Never one to follow the script, Biden's surprise-appearances stood in contrast to the meticulously orchestrated virtual production. Barack Obama congratulates his former vice president. Shortly after receiving enough votes to clinch the nomination, former President Barack Obama responded to Joe Biden's tweet to offer his congratulations. Speaking from a sentimental spot in Delaware -- Brandywine High School, where she taught English from to -- Jill Biden spoke to her husband's humanity and character.
The former second lady made her argument from the school, which like many is empty amid the coronavirus pandemic. I fell in love with a man and two little boys standing in the wreckage of unthinkable loss, mourning a wife and mother, a daughter and sister. And how could I argue with her?
And so, we figured it out together. Love makes us flexible and resilient. 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," she continued. The same way you make a nation whole -- with love and understanding and with small acts of kindness. Cindy McCain to discusses 'unlikely' friendship between Biden and late husband.
John, a former Navy pilot just released from a North Vietnamese prison. Joe, a young senator from Delaware," the narrator says. Bush's administration, praised Joe Biden's candidacy because he will "restore America's leadership and our moral authority. What a difference it will make to have a president who unites us, who restores our strength and our soul. I still believe that in our hearts, we are the same America that brought my parents to our shores, an America that inspires freedom around the world.
Ahead of a segment on Biden's national security plan, former Secretary of State John Kerry said that under the Obama-Biden administration "we led by example.
We built a nation coalition to destroy ISIS. We forged a nation agreement to attack climate change. We stopped Ebola before it became a pandemic," Kerry said. They need a president who will stand up for them. And President Biden will. Former Vice President Joe Biden briefly appeared on camera Tuesday evening after he officially won enough delegates to be declared the Democratic presidential nominee.
Speaking from the school where is wife will deliver remarks later tonight, and with his grandchildren and daughter Ashley behind him celebrating, Biden thanked all his supporters, and told them he'd see them on Thursday.
Thank you all. It means the world to me and my family, and I'll see you on Thursday. Thank you, thank you, thank you," Biden said, mask in hand that he later put back over his face.
The roll call is now over, and Joe Biden has received enough votes from the delegations from 57 states and territories to clinch the nomination.
Biden ended the roll call with a total of 3, delegates, compared to Sanders' 1, They were the only two candidates nominated on the ballot. During the roll call vote, Sen. Joe Biden gets required delegates to become Democratic candidate for president. The revamped roll call vote to formally nominate former Vice President Joe Biden is still ongoing, but North Carolina put Biden over the top to have enough votes to secure the nomination. With North Carolina, 2, delegates have nominated Biden to be the party's standard-bearer, which surpasses the magic number of 2, to win the nomination.
Biden will formally accept the nomination on Thursday, when he delivers his speech from Wilmington, Delaware. During the roll call, delegations from 57 states and territories cast votes to nominate candidates based on the results of the presidential primaries. Only Biden and Sanders were nominated at the convention. All pledged and superdelegates were able to vote on the first ballot since Biden secured a majority of pledged delegates in the primary.
Biden is being formally nominated as the party's presidential nominee during a minute roll call featuring representatives for all 57 states and territories. The process typically takes hours. Terri Sewell delivering the delegation's votes from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the site of "Bloody Sunday," when state troopers attacked civil rights demonstrators, including the late-Rep.
John Lewis, in This year, the roll call includes delegates, parents, teachers, small business owners, essential workers, activists and elected leaders inside businesses, living rooms and in front of iconic landmarks. When seconding the nomination for Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N. Carter and Clinton rally around Biden and his integrity to be president. For decades, he has been my loyal and dedicated friend," Carter said. We deserve a person with integrity and judgment, someone who is honest and fair, someone who is committed to what is best for the American people.
Well, we are the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triple. At a time like this, the Oval Office should be a command center. Instead, it's a storm center. There's only chaos. Just one thing never changes -- his determination to deny responsibility and shift the blame. The buck never stops there," he said. If you want a president who defines the job as spending hours a day watching TV and zapping people on social media, he's your man. The Democrats' campaign had focused on questions of Donald Trump's "character and temperament" and not enough on economics, he said, describing Trump's victory as a reaction to the failure of the political system to deal with voters' "core insecurities.
Despite his apparent lack of interest in the job — Collins said Emanuel's "only interest in going to Washington these days is to bring money back for Chicago — Emanuel was shown in his most favorable light at Friday's event. Neither the city's pensions crisis nor the soaring homicide rate was mentioned once during the minute chat with the Brookings Institution's Bruce Katz and British member of parliament Tristram Hunt.
Instead, Emanuel was given free rein to plot out a return to power for the Democrats and to tout his accomplishments as mayor, including the longer school day and downtown Riverwalk.
Noting that in Asian-American U. The mayor's trip wasn't all strategy talk and diplomacy. According to a report in The Hill , Emanuel was at a Washington bar Thursday night, and he allegedly flipped the bird at a consultant who asked him if he would run for president in The night culminates with a speech by Sen.
Kamala Harris, who is also set to be formally nominated as the vice presidential nominee -- the first person of Black and Indian descent in that role. The campaign confirmed that Biden will be watching the proceedings from Delaware Wednesday night but said that they would not plan on seeing a cameo from the former vice president, saying the focus would remain on vice presidential nominee. After a bruising presidential primary, liberals worried that a nominating convention featuring several prominent Republicans undercut efforts to bring Democrats together ahead of November and overshadowed one of the party's rising stars, who spoke for just 90 seconds.
From Cindy McCain, the wife of the late Sen. The message echoed Biden's key pitch to voters to "restore the soul of our democracy" -- a bet that a broad swath of Americans will value stability and consensus in Washington for the next four years.
But the emphasis on bipartisanship has vexed some liberals working to influence Biden's campaign and potential agenda. Beyond the speaking slots, progressives have also sparred with party leaders over a provision calling to end fossil fuel subsidies in the party's platform, after months of negotiations between the Biden and Sanders camps.
After reports that the provision was removed from the party's platform, a Biden aide said the candidate, who included the provision in his own climate change plan, remained "committed" to ending subsidies.
It shows where their priorities are and what messages they want to be sending out. Krishna Desai, a Sanders delegate from New Hampshire, also felt slighted by the decision not to announce the total number of delegates awarded to the Vermont senator -- or the results of the vote on the party's platform, which was rejected by some Sanders delegates for not supporting "Medicare for All.
Organizers and party leaders have pushed back on the criticism of the list of speakers, and the week's proceedings -- pointing to the fact that Sanders was given eight minutes to address the convention earlier this week, in one of the longer speaking slots. We're proud of our diversity, we welcome our diversity. We embrace our diversity. In public and private this week, Sanders urged his supporters to back Biden, warning that another four years of Trump in the White House would be worse for the progressive movement, and proposals like the Green New Deal and Medicare for All.
Ocasio-Cortez, who criticized news outlets for suggesting she had snubbed Biden in her procedural role affirming Sanders' presidential nomination, made a similar point in an Instagram livestream Wednesday evening. Campaigning in the battleground state of Wisconsin this afternoon, Vice President Mike Pence wasted no time criticizing Democrats for cancelling their in-person convention in Milwaukee this week, singling out Joe Biden for not having stepped foot in the state since This week alone, the Trump campaign has capitalized on Democrats skipping out on Wisconsin and have seen stops by Pence, President Donald Trump and the president's son Eric Trump.
Of course that's really nothing new. You know I heard on the way here that Joe Biden hasn't actually been to Wisconsin in days.
In fact, the last time you saw a Democratic nominee for president in this Badger State was back in Well, I'm here to tell you get used to seeing us because President Donald Trump and I are gonna be back to Wisconsin again and again to earn 4 more years in the White House.
John Lewis. Biden's remarks lasted a little over two and half minutes. Biden started his remarks thanking the Black Caucus for ensuring that the DNC is a "party worthy of leadership, a party that lives up and advances the highest standards of our nation. Biden focused his remarks on remembering Lewis, who Biden said he, like the rest of the country, has been thinking about often -- noting that he would encourage the party to continue the fight to eradicate injustice and inequality that still exists within the country.
Resilience in the face of hardship, faith in the face of adversity, purpose in the face of pain," Biden said. He'd say, 'March on. Keep the faith. It's what America demands of us. We owe it to John, the people and to ourselves to unify this nation around its highest ideals.
To have the backs of Americans who are struggling to get by; To strip bias out of American life; to fight for greater equity and justice in every part of our society; put the American dream with the reach of Black Americans, who have been denied their fair shot for So -- well, quite frankly, from the beginning.
It's up to us to carry John's legacy forward. It's our charge now. We've a lot of work ahead. Democrats quietly adopt platform that sought to tame doubts over progressive-moderate divide. Democrats formally adopted a new party platform on Tuesday night, bringing an end to the intraparty dispute between the moderate and progressive wings that persisted for a year throughout the primary.
But the mainstay document, which outlines their agenda and vision for the next four years, also inscribes in print the divisions still lingering just under the surface, with major tenets of the progressive movement left out of the final text. On the second night of the gathering, the co-chairs of the three standing committees to the convention -- credentials, rules and platform -- capped off official business with pre-recorded videos announcing that delegates approved their pro-forma work.
Just before the flair of Tuesday night's roll call, or the scattered appearances by the nominee himself, the platform committee co-chairs touted their efforts to bridge the gap between the two ideological tribes of the party, without ever landing at the words "approved" or announcing the result of the vote on the platform.
Convention officials did not respond to ABC News' multiple requests for the final vote tally, but confirmed it was adopted. Although the entire segment was a procedural step, and took place before the official start to the convention proceedings, it marked a subtle, yet not unnoticed turn in the protracted fight for Democrats.
Leading into Tuesday, some allies of former contender Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Some even dissented over the single nod to "Medicare for All" in the party's blueprint, instead of a full embrace of the issue that was a cornerstone of Sanders' campaign.
The platform also features no mention of the Green New Deal or "defund the police. Without the final tally, it remains unclear just how many delegates aligned with the left ultimately opposed the page document -- and underscores some of the concerns progressives have about the direction of the party moving forward.
Remarks - DeAndra Dycus, a mother whose son was left paralyzed by a stray bullet at the age of A Conversation with Young Climate Activists - Young organizers talk about how they're taking control of their future and speak to why Biden as a leader. America Rising: Immigrants Rebuilding America - A video highlighting the contributions of immigrants and refugees in America.
America Rising: From Women's Suffrage to the Women's March - A video highlighting this week's the th anniversary since women won the right to vote. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa talk to small business owners in their communities about how they're struggling in Trump's economy. Elizabeth Warren's five-minute speech will be delivered during the 10 p. She will discuss the failed federal response to the pandemic and talk about Biden's and Harris's plans to build the economy back better, according to the source.
A former elementary school teacher and law professor, Warren will deliver her speech from the Springfield Early Childhood Education Center, a student pre-K and kindergarten school run by the city. The center closed in March and isn't expected to open back up until November. Given the location of her speech, as well as her background as a single mother when her children were young, it's likely Warren will also focus on the burdens of paying for child care in America.
As he leads us out of crisis, Joe Biden will help build back better," the Democratic National Convention Committee said in a release on Wednesday's program. Harris, California's junior senator who at age 55 is more than 20 years younger than her year-old running mate, offers the prospect of energizing younger and more progressive voters who have lamented Biden as the nominee.
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