Watch highlights from the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Vice President Harris officially accepted the party's nomination for president and family, friends and fellow lawmakers offered their support.
of Arizona; his wife, Gabby Giffords, a former congresswoman and gun violence prevention activist; Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer; and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, among others.
Both conventions talked about neighbors, friends and family. The Republicans said we want to remove millions of them from this country in a deportation effort with a magnitude bigger than the 1954 operation run by Dwight D. Eisenhower, with the name so racist and so offensive I don’t think it’s appropriate to say on television. The Republicans were proud of that.
That’s part of why there's this big coalition of current Republicans, former Republicans, sheriffs, people who don’t normally come to these things becauseOne line that stands out in re-reading the speech captures a key difference between Harris’ vision of America and Trump’s. She’s not saying that. She’s saying elect me for all of these other reasons. Elect me because I’m decent, because I’ll fight for you, because I know what needs to be done and because I respect America.Ari Melber speaking on MSNBC moments ago:
Then third, we got the closing argument, broadening back out to the message: we can do this together, I'm proud to be American, we’re not going back. They have opened the flaps of the tent to encompass Republicans, to encompass doubters, to encompass people who felt culturally divorced from the party for decades and here we have one of the broadest, deepest, most diverse coalitions I have ever seen. All of them marching under the stars and stripes. It’s really something else.
Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt of Washington D.C.’s Adas Israel Congregation, began with a reference to the book of Exodus, saying “God brought us out of the narrow place of oppression to freedom.”My experience listening to Kamala Harris began when tonight’s host of the convention, Kerry Washington, asked me “Would you like to meet the female Obama?” This was in 2009, in the first months of the Obama presidency.
She said, “Fellow Americans, this election is not only the most important election in our lives, it’s the most important in the life of our nation.” But on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Harris adopted more passive language. “What has happened in Gaza over the past 10 months is devastating,” she said, declining to specifically call out Israel’s role in the suffering and death. “So many innocent lives lost. Desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, over and over again.”
She also has benefited both from Trump’s similarly thin agenda and the conservative Project 2025 proposal, which goes into excessive detail on a number of proposals that poll terribly. “Donald Trump handpicked members of the U.S. Supreme Court to take away reproductive freedom and now he brags about it,” she said. “And one must ask: Why exactly is it that they don’t trust women? Well, we trust women.”The entire week has built to this moment. We have heard from so many people who have known Harris throughout her life, and their words and anecdotes have contextualized and added depth and humanity to her profile.
That’s the kind of line that you give at the end of a two-term presidency from the opposing party, not from a sitting vice president. But Trump has never really left, and Harris thinks Americans are ready to be done with him.. The convention then proceeded to give prime speaking slots to a Republican, a cop and former military officials who could tout Harris as the next commander-in-chief.
“And I immediately told her she had to come stay with us. And she did,” Harris said. “That is one of the reasons I became a prosecutor — to protect people like Wanda.”recently about how Harris and her mother helped her when she was going through an abusive situation at home. The two lost touch after high school, but Kagan said she reached out after seeing Harris on"The Oprah Winfrey Show" years later, and they “picked up like time stood still.
She wished a teary"Dougie" a happy anniversary and he blew her a kiss back as his daughter, Ella, pat his shoulder.It is prime time on the final night of the DNC and one of the main speakers is … a Republican. Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., has stood alongside Democrats against Trump since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and served as one of two Republicans on the House committee investigating the attack.
As with other convention speakers who know Spanish, Longoria threw in some Spanish as she was speaking, noting at one point that Americans are one big family, adding “somos familia” afterward. When it became clear that Biden might actually have to drop out of the race earlier this summer, Whitmer’s name was one of those floated to replace him as the nominee. She ultimately declined to challenge Harris once he stepped aside. But if this speech is any indication, Whitmer is going to be a strong potential contender eight years from now.Leon Panetta is a guy who has done pretty much every job in Washington.
But his speech Thursday was workmanlike at best. He had a nice line about having to follow his wife, former Rep. Gabby Giffords, and singer Pink, but he didn’t sell it particularly well. It’s good to see that Swanson has kept that same energy four years later, as he compared that act with Trump’s actions on Jan. 6. He further added that Harris “has served America by keeping us safer, and I can testify firsthand that where I come from, crime is down.” Those are the kind of stats thatComedian D.L. Hughley just took the stage and torched Trump as only a comedian could.
Democrats have been having a hell of a party this week. A big question that one important group watching Harris tonight wants to know is whether they can feel welcome joining the fun. This is also about tomorrow. It’s not just about tonight. What she needs to do is not a policy speech but an inspiring speech — a vision. Tonight, she needs to ask people to go out there and get active.We just finished a stretch of speakers focused on climate change and Democrats’ efforts to mitigate its effects. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland struck out at Trump’s claim that climate change is a hoax and how he “made it easier for big companies to poison our air and water.
Tristan Snell, a lawyer who prosecuted Trump University before the settlement, said, “Donald Trump ripped off his biggest fans and made $5 million in profit.” He adds, “Kamala Harris fought scammers like him” and will fight for the people as president.The rally will take place just hours after Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
I’m a preacher, and in Psalms, it says, weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. We’ve endured Jan. 6. We’ve endured conspiracy theories. We’ve endured lies and areas of darkness.
Warren used to be a Republican back in the day. She then shifted and became a Democrat. She's sort of defined and maligned on the right as some socialist but she’s not. She’s just an academic who became a politician to try to stop rich people and corporations from cheating people. As with Harris, Casey said that while most companies are playing by the rules, diaper prices were up because of “food conglomerates” who are “extorting” consumers, comparing them to people who hoarded toilet paper during the pandemic.Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado took the baton from"SNL" cast member Kenan Thompson to lead tonight’s Project 2025 takedown.
Instead there was a deeply divisive message, obviously. And remember what was happening on those convention signs? They said “mass deportation now.” It was literally a message of kicking millions of people out of the country, many of whom, especially from a place like California, are our neighbors, are our colleagues, and people we know very well.
There are a bunch of gnarly issues out there that are waiting for her that will have to be addressed almost immediately upon taking the oath of office. I think the American people would like to get some sense of what that feels like and looks like for them. It’s not just the economy, it’s global affairs, it’s reproductive health, it’s educating their children or it’s starting their small business.
After his retirement party on opening night, Biden has been an afterthought at this convention. But try to imagine tonight as the capper of a weeklong hype party to re-elect Biden. “With your vote, we will seal the border, stop the invasion and launch the largest deportation effort in American history,” he said.
While it’s true that running late pushes some of the big speeches out of prime time, that isn’t really the disaster that it might have been a few years ago. “If you are on the Titanic and you know the ship is about to sink, and you’re the only one who knows, are you going to worry about how you look and how you sound? No, because the thing that’s most important is that everyone knows whatThe Harris campaign has received a lot of praise for its social media strategy. I’ve been following along with this week’s DNC programming with that in mind, while picking out portions of the convention that have seem tailor-made for social media.
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