The former young girl Michelle Obama harshly criticized President Donald Trump in a 19-minute speech that declared him unworthy of it and encouraged others to vote as if their lives depended on it.
It closed the first day of speeches, songs and videos covering 50 states and seven territories for a virtual democratic national conference through which the presidential election would reveal who we are as a country.
“Donald Trump is not the right president for our country,” Obama said. “You’ve had more than enough time to show you can do the job, but it’s obviously above your head. You can’t face this moment. It just can’t be the one we want for ourselves. That’s what it is.”
She said the electorate will have to Biden with an overwhelming womb to prevent corruption in the results.
“We have to vote for Joe Biden as our lives,” obama added, whose collar said “vote.”
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Obama noted that more than 150,000 Americans died in the pandemic, that the economy is in ruins that has left millions unemployed and said Trump had minimized the crisis for too long. But he said Trump did not qualify for the task because it was complicated and required a transparent judgment, determination of facts and history, an ethical compass, with the ability to listen.
“You just can’t get your way through this job,” Obama said.
Racial justice protests erupted across the country after George Floyd was killed in custody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. Obama noted that his death and the message that the lives of blacks are vital were greeted with mockery, while young people looked in horror.
“This is just disappointing, but frankly exasperating,” Obama said. “They watch with horror at young people torn from their families and thrown into cages, and pepper spray and rubber bullets are used against nonviolent protesters for a photo shoot.”
When he urges his followers to move from top to bottom, Obama said it means avoiding dehumanizing and degrading tactics, but it doesn’t mean “smiling and saying nice things in the face of evil and cruelty.”
“Going to the height means taking the most complicated path. It means scratching and scratching our way to that maximum sensitive mountain,” Obama said. “To rise to the occasion means to fiercely oppose hatred as we remember that we are a country under God, and if we want to survive, we will have to find a way to live in a combined country and paint in a country combined through our differences.”
He encouraged the electorate to regard Biden as a deeply decent, religiously driven and empathetic man with the other people he represents.
“He will tell the fact and accept it as true with science,” Obama said. “His life is a testament to improvement, and he will channel that same courage and hobby to lead us all, help us heal, and counsel us in the future.”
– Bart Jansen
Senator Bernie Sanders made a passionate appeal Monday to Joe Biden for the president in November, a key solution that Democrats hope will help unite a party that has been divided into the beyond liberals and centrists.
“Our crusade ended several months ago, however, our movement continues and grows every day,” Sanders said, in front of a wood-cut bottom. “If Donald Trump is re-elected, all the progress we’ve made will be threatened.”
Sanders noted that Biden supports raising the minimum wage, unionization and the country’s transition to blank power over the next five decades.
Sanders’ comments were among the tops of the Democratic National Convention, with the intention of signing a bridge between the party’s left-wing and centrist wings. Some Sanders voters were angry about Hillary Clinton’s nomination in 2016 and Biden and Sanders sought a similar division this year.
That will be very important to Biden’s good fortune in November: in an election that will be involved, the former vice president will have to energize each and every corner of the party to make sure they go to the polls or vote by mail.
Sanders was Biden’s last permanent number one opponent, and remained until April after a lively crusade that gained special power from young voters. Throughout number one, Sanders was one of many postulants who criticized Obama-Biden’s management for not being progressive enough in their policies.
Nowhere has the division been as pronounced as in health care, where Sanders has become a standard-bearer of a Medicare health care formula for all that Biden fought would be too expensive and not as effective as the Obamacare Act of 2009.
Sanders referred to that department in his comments.
“While Joe and I don’t agree on the most productive way to get universal coverage, he has a plan that will particularly expand physical care, ” and lower drug prices,” Sanders said.
Since Sanders dropped out of school, the two former Senate colleagues have worked in a merged country to expand a platform for the party that President Donald Trump has criticized as too leftist for the country, describing concepts like the “Biden-Sanders” agenda.
“The long term of our democracy is at stake,” Sanders said. “The value of failure is too high to imagine.”
– John Fritze
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s rivals in the controversial primaries accumulated on Monday for the so-called Democratic nominee.
“Unity is a matter of agreement,” said Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat. “We want a president for the whole of America.”
Former presidential applicants explained why they ran, why they were fighting, and why they think Biden would join the country.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California; Senator Cory Booker, D-N. J.; Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N. YArray; Washington Governor Jay Inslee; Klobuchar, representing Seth Moulton, D-Mass.; former Beto O’Rourke of Texas; Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang.
“It has the ultimate destructive, hateful and racist president in the history of this country that is literally breaking the cloth of the United States of America,” Booker said.
Gillibrand said that seeing Trump split the country, she wondered what she would be willing to do to prevent it.
“Donald Trump doesn’t perceive who we are as Americans,” said Harris, whose acceptance speech for Biden’s nomination as vice president is scheduled for Wednesday.
– Bart Jansen
Democrats have stepped up their complaint about President Donald Trump’s comments about the mail-in voting and his resolve to appoint a best friend to office for weeks.
No wonder, then, that the challenge came to light on the first night of the festival’s virtual convention.
Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto’s first spokesman, representing Nevada, a state where Trump’s crusade continued this year to block widespread use of mail ballots.
“He challenged us in court with an unsubstantiated trial,” Cortez Masto said. “And now he’s putting the lives of Nevada’s elders at risk.”
“Nevada feels intimidated through you,” he added.
The high-ranking U.S. Postal Service will testify before Congress next week amid increased scrutiny of adjustments at the agency, and Democrats fear they will block the November election.
Post Office Minister Louis DeJoy and U.S. Postal Board Chairman Robert Duncan agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee on August 24, D-New York. President Carolyn Maloney announced Monday. House Democrats are expected to return to Washington to pass a bill that offers more investment for the United States.
Trump criticized Democrats’ preference to include $25 billion for the postal service in their new stimulus package for the coronavirus, arguing that wider use of mail voting will increase the likelihood of fraud.
On the one hand, Trump and other Republicans have argued that those are primarily states that would automatically send ballots to each and every registered voter. But there are a small number of states that are making plans to take this step in November. Meanwhile, Trump has criticized states like Virginia, which have a voting formula similar to states like Florida, which he has praised.
– John Fritze, Nicholas Wu
Running against President Donald Trump in the Republican primaries was not for former Ohio governor John Kasich. He joined three Republicans to blow up Trump from the virtual level of the Democratic National Convention.
“Normally, something like this would probably never happen, but those are not general times,” Kasich said, prioritizing his country over his party. “Yes, there are spaces where Joe and I surely disagree. But that’s smart because it’s America. For whatever our differences, we respect others as human beings, whom we seek justice and purpose.”
Trump ridiculed Kasich by returning to Washington from the Crusades in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
“He was a loser as a Republican and will be a loser as a Democrat. Big loser as a Republican,” Trump said. “People don’t like it, other people don’t accept how true they do with it, their physical care in Ohio has been a disaster. He didn’t do very well with Trump. It was easy to choose.”
One of Biden’s co-chairs, Rep. Cedric Richmond, Democrat of La., said Republicans were invited to speak to demonstrate the diversity of the former vice president.
“I call them silent voters, who are Republicans who feel intimidated, Republicans who feel they will be remote if they do Biden, and they will be harassed,” Richmond said.
Other Republicans who spoke at the conference, former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman; former rep Susan Molinari, N.R. YArray; and Meg Whitman, Quibi’s executive director, who ran for Governor of California as a Republican.
Todd Whitman, a longtime Republican whose parents were brought to a convention, said Biden decent enough, solid enough and strong enough for the economy to get back on track. He said the country needed someone who could simply paint with members from both sides to unite the country.
“Donald Trump is that person,” he said. “Joe Biden is.”
Meg Whitman said as executive director that she was not inspired by Trump’s résumé.
“Let me tell you that Donald Trump doesn’t have the concept of how to run a business, let an economy,” he said. “For me, selection is simple. I’m with Joe.”
– Bart Jansen
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, one of the finalists for Biden’s vice presidency, used her time to remind Michiganers of Biden’s role in the automotive industry.
Speaking from a syndicate, Whitmer spoke about the Obama administration to automakers after the 2008 recession. She said Obama and Biden stored the livelihoods of the auto personnel who are now doing their part to save American lives by making protective equipment.
“With a lot of the auto staff and very little of the White House, we executed our plan,” he said of Trump, who called her “this Michigan woman.” “We’ve stored thousands of lives.”
He said Biden will use “science, politics or ego” to drive his decisions.
Trump’s narrow victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin gave him the votes he needed at the College of Elections to succeed Hillary Clinton’s leadership in the popular vote.
Biden leads Trump by more than six points, according to an average recent Real Clear Politics polls.
– Maureen Groppe
Rep. James Clyburn, the South Carolina Democrat who revived Biden’s campaign, spoke from Charleston, where he said the approval that propelled Biden’s victory in South Carolina is a resolution made with feet “firmly rooted in this community.”
Clyburn referred to the history of slavery and the mass shooting of 2015 at the Emanuel African Messitist Episcopal Church.
However, he added that the city also got rid of a statue in honor of one of the first advocates of slavery and built an African-American museum.
“The ground beneath our feet is sown with new and old pain, yet from this ground we locate a way to grow together,” he said. “We are emerging from the shadow of our beyond and beginning to lay the foundation for a more just future.”
Clyburn said the country is a president “who understands the deep loss and what it takes to recover.”
“But more vital than his direct delight in losses and difficulties is his ability to translate that attitude into policies and solutions,” Clyburn said. “That’s why I’m with Joe and that’s why he’ll be a son followed by South Carolina.”
– Maureen Groppe
Gwen Carr, whose son died while in detention through a New York police officer, suggested former Vice President Joe Biden replace national politics to combat police brutality.
Carr said there was a primary uprising after the death of his son Eric Garner in July 2014, but interest has declined. He called for action against “a secular problem.”
“I know that when my son was killed, there was a wonderful uprising,” Carr said. “We have to keep our feet in the fire.”
Biden had a verbal exchange with Carr and others to discuss the priorities of racial justice. The exchange illustrated how Biden will sometimes look like the week to watch the convention. Biden noted that top police officers are good, but the bad ones deserve to be punished.
“Most are good, but the fact is that the bad guys must be known, prosecuted and expelled, period,” Biden said.
Houston police chief Art Acevedo said officials were surprised by George Floyd’s death. Acevedo said police were looking for a replacement in national policy on the use of force and opposed strangulation, which separated policies between 18,000 police departments.
“The police were surprised. The police have spoken out. We look forward to national standards,” Acevedo said. “This is a turning point and we lose this moment.”
Jamira Burley, a racial justice activist, said other people want access to education and want to know that their differences will be celebrated and by law.
“We have a duty to make them safe,” he said.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot told Biden that economic empowerment is to combat systemic racism.
“If other people have come out of poverty and risked in their own future, it’s a breakthrough,” he said.
Public speech through NAACP President Derrick Johnson on voting as a civic duty than as a partisan exercise. He called for the reauthorization of the Electoral Rights Act.
“This should be noted as a democratic thing, the most patriotic thing we can do and not a partisan exercise,” Johnson said.
– Bart Jansen
The father of his father voted for President Donald Trump, but who also died of COVID-19, criticized the president’s handling of the fitness crisis.
Mark Anthony Urquiza died on June 30 after three weeks of respiratory batting disease. In his obituary of the Republic of Arizona, his daughter Kristin Urquiza wrote that his death is due to the negligence of politicians who did not need or simply cannot give a transparent and decisive direction.
“My father was a healthy 65-year-old man. His only pre-existing condition was to accept Donald Trump as true, and that’s why he paid with his life,” Urquiza said at the convention. “The coronavirus evidently showed that there were two Americas: the America in which Donald Trump lives and the America in which my father died.”
Biden accused Trump of mis management of the crisis. Biden called for a national screening program and proposed hiring 100,000 employees to insinuate contacts from inflamed people.
Trump said he had “very well” fought the virus by supporting the world’s top tests and stimulating the manufacture of thousands of enthusiasts for the sick.
“We are very close to the vaccine and therapeutics,” Trump told a crowd Monday in Mankato, Minnesota. We have created enthusiasts to such an extent that we help the rest of the world with enthusiasts. And we did well.
– Bart Jansen
New York Gov. Andre Cuomo presented a segment on coronavirus by saying the pandemic has shown Americans why it’s vital to the right leader.
“We have noticed the truth in this crisis: that issues of government and leadership are important,” Cuomo said. “And it determines whether we prosper and grow, or if we die.”
She accused the address of being obsessed with China when the European edition of the virus invaded the Northeast.
“Today we are following the global by beating COVID,” he said.
Vice President Mike Pence, who communicated with the governors about the coronavirus, filed a public attack, opposed to Cuomo’s handling of the virus this month.
“Our hearts are saddened by the fact that one in five of all American lives lost in the coronavirus pandemic has been lost in New York State, due to poor decisions from the state and Governor Cuomo.” Pence tweeted.
The tweet followed Cuomo’s comments that the country needed a reboot to end the confusion and chaos, and the reboot began with Trump.
In his comments at the convention, Cuomo said that a strong framework can fight the virus and that the AMERICAN political framework has weakened through division.
“Donald Trump didn’t create the initial department,” Cuomo said. “The department created Trump; it’s only made things worse.
– Maureen Groppe
Democrats are a virtual nominating conference for the first time in history due to the coronavirus pandemic.
So what does it look like? The first moments of Monday’s conference gave a concept of what the electorate will see over the next two weeks: highly produced videos with electorate, Zoom meetings such as speeches through politicians, and a moderator temporarily moving from one segment to another.
The first few minutes of the Democratic National Convention, which largely defected from his physical occasions in Milwaukee, included a national anthem sung by young people from various states, George Floyd’s circle of relatives, a verbal exchange with small business owners, a feature. through Leon Bridges and an argument. Biden animated with racial justice activists.
Traditional conventions included videos and similar music performances among key speakers, but cable and broadcast networks used this time to provide feedback to long-term speakers. Until now, the cable networks that cover the DNC have controlled it in its entirety, offering the party an uninterrupted platform to show not only high-level comments, but also the advertising videos that accompany them.
– John Fritze
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has introduced a segment on the “demand for racial justice” by criticizing Donald Trump’s handling of protests that oppose over-enforcement.
“While we are peacefully protesting, Donald Trump conspires,” Bowser said. She said she used a White House church as a photo shoot, sent troops with camouflage gear through the streets and threw fuel into the air.
“I knew that if I did that in Washington DC,” Bowser said, “I would do it in your town or town.
In June, Trump called Bowser “incompetent” after challenging him to use active duty army troops opposed to the protesters.
During the protests, Bowser asked city workers to paint “Black Lives Matter” in huge yellow letters on the street leading to the White House “as a position where we can come together to say “enough.” Activists added the words “Defund the Police.” . “
At the convention, Bowser said that each and every American had to do anything – “each of us” – to “transform this calculation into a new symbol of a country where ‘we, the people,’ all people mean.”
She brought in members of George Floyd’s circle of relatives, who died this year when a Minneapolis police officer held a knee opposite to her neck for at least 8 minutes.
“George is alive today, ” said Philonise Floyd, Floyd’s brother. “It is up to us to continue the fight for justice.”
– Maureen Groppe
Noting Democrats’ hope for the nation’s most recent record for racism, Democrats called for a moment of silence at the start of their nominations conference to honor George Floyd.
Floyd died this year when a Minneapolis police officer held a knee opposite his neck for at least 8 minutes.
The minute of silence preceded a video featuring Black Live Matters protests across the country and comments from Floyd’s family.
“It will be used to continue the fight for justice,” said Philonise Floyd, Floyd’s brother.
The incident sparked weeks of protests and violence in some cities, a wave of non-violent protests and also riots that sparked calls for police reform and replaced the presidential election.
President Donald Trump criticized the officials involved in the incident, but also held nonviolent protests, adding the ones held outdoors in the White House, with looting and violence taking place in parts of the country.
Trump’s march in Lafayette Square near the White House in June has become a central symbol highlighting tension. The park was freed from nonviolent protesters before the city’s curfew, minutes before Trump stood in front of a historic church and held a Bible in the air for press photographers.
In response, so-called Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden accused Trump of “softening and sweeping away all the bars that have long had our democracy.”
– John Fritze
Democrats in the stellar force of actress Eva Longoria to open the first night of their virtual national conference before highlighting the “common Americans.”
Longoria, best known for her television-screen roles “Desperate Housewives” and the soap opera “Young and Restless,” said the more than four years have “left us as a strictched and divided nation.”
“And yet, amid fear, pain and uncertainty, other people have come together,” he said, “because they know we’re bigger than that.”
The Democrats’ theme for the first of 4 nights of speeches, videos and musical performances is “We, the People.”
After Longoria spoke, Americans across the country (activists, legislators, veterans, known as “Rosie the Riveter” and Biden himself) took turns reading parts of the preamble to the Constitution before Rep. Bennie Thompson, the convention president, officially opened the event. .
“We, the people, remember … Democratic National Convention for Order,” he said.
Longoria, who spoke at the last two Democratic conventions and master of ceremonies Monday night, said in an interview after the 2016 election that she stayed in bed about two days later because she was very disappointed with Trump’s election.
She said her political involvement began when she volunteered for Bill Clinton’s Best Schools campaign in 1992.
– Maureen Groppe
Several progressive leaders voted against the Democratic National Committee platform because it did not have Medicare for All.
Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat for California, and Cori Bush, the Democratic candidate for Missouri’s first congressional district who delivered surprising and disappointed opposition to current Rep. William Lacy Clay, were among those who voted against the platform.
“I’m very excited that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris defeat Donald Trump, but I can’t vote for this platform that doesn’t have the right to universal fitness care,” Khanna told Democracy Now! Monday.
Bush also told Democracy Now that she edited other facets of the platform, such as climate replacement platforms and the Electoral Rights Act. However, he said he wants to do more in terms of physical care.
“We’ll have to do more for our other people,” he said. “We can’t let other people die.”
Medicare for All, which requires a single-payer fitness care system, has a major challenge for progressive candidates, such as Senator Bernie Sanders.
– Rebecca Morin
Michelle Obama will describe so-called Democratic candidate Joe Biden as a “deeply decent man” with his opening speech Monday night at the party’s national convention.
“I know Joe. He’s a deeply decent faith-guided guy. He’s a wonderful vice president,” said the former deputy vice president’s former first-time girl, according to excerpts from his comments posted through the party on Monday. “He knows what it takes to save an economy, defend against a pandemic, and rule our country.”
Michelle Obama will also congratulate Biden on being the one who “listens.” Former President Barack Obama will face the virtual conference on Wednesday.
Democrats released excerpts of statements through Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who was Biden’s last number one challenger, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser, and Ohio Governor John Kasich, a Republican.
“The long term of our democracy is at stake,” Sanders will say, according to excerpts from his comments. “We will have to unite, defeat Donald Trump and elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as our next president and vice president. My friends, the value of failure is too great to imagine.”
– Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY
A Democratic Super PAC filed an ad Monday with Kristin Urquiza, who lost her father to COVID-19 and who also tells the story on the first night of the convention.
Urquiza said in the American Bridge 21st Century announcement that his father was a Trump supporter who encouraged through management that minimized the virus.
“He told me he felt betrayed,” he says in the ad. “They tell us to stick to leaders in times of crisis. That’s what my father did and took his life.”
American Bridge said the announcement was the first to draw “a hotline between Trump’s incorrect information and the minimisation of the coronavirus with the death of a Trump supporter.”
The organization said it was broadcasting the ad on virtual platforms and the Republican National Convention.
– Maureen Groppe
Nightly programming will probably never be the same again: Donald Trump’s crusade is building an online program every night this week to criticize the chances of the Democratic convention.
It’ll be an impartial analysis.
Titled “The Real Joe Biden,” the show airs at 11 p.m. ET is a component of an anti-convention assignment that includes Internet commercials, hits, special appearances, and the president’s own national excursion in states with battlefields such as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
As a component of a multimillion-dollar virtual advertising purchase, Trump’s crusade plans to take over The YouTube header Tuesday through Friday. The pro-Trump and anti-Biden classified ads will be placed on the websites of news sites, adding the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and Fox News.
Trump’s strategic adviser, Boris Epshteyn, described this year’s DNC as a “socialist meeting” and said Trump’s crusade would “expose” applicants to the “radical and left-wing politicians they are.”
Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said Trump and his allies were going to cover up their own “terrible leadership failure” which includes more than 167,000 coVID deaths and “one of the worst recessions recorded.”
Trump is campaigning in four states on the battlefield: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, while Democratic delegates officially call Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, at the Democratic National Convention.
– David Jackson
Alleged Democratic candidate Joe Biden organized a fundraiser Monday afternoon with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, and singer-songwriter Carole King.
Biden spoke of the criteria for his baffling speech, adding the need for an infrastructure finish and investment in blank energy. Pelosi said that at the end of the day, “it has to be jobs.”
But Biden confided to King that she was on his playlist. King thanked him for delivering a positive message in difficult times.
“A lot of other people feel worried and depressed right now, you know, of unprecedented cruelty and chaos and deliberate incompetence,” King said. “If we all persist with love, hope and confidence in the strength of all of us, we will bring better times and that’s what Joe says: rebuild better. We’ll get there. And we’re going to win.”
King played the piano and sang “I Feel the Earth Move” and “You’ve Got a Friend”.
The event, which brought together about 900 participants, raised more than $4 million, according to co-host Alex Mehran, president of Sunset Development Co.
– Bart Jansen
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez told The Associated Press Monday that 2020 will be the last year of the presidential caucus for Democrats.
Pérez, whose term ends before the next presidential round, said he would use his stature within the party to drive change, making plans to “use the mating chair as a former president to keep us moving forward,” he told the AP. . Training
The call, new to Perez, isn’t really a surprise. Iowa’s first caucuses in the country in February generated widespread calls to end the practice, and some called for adjustments on which state deserves the first chance to make its presidential election, Perez in particular did not point the finger at the state.
Former Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg was officially named winner in Iowa several days after the contest, with Senator Bernie Sanders at the scene at the time. Biden ranked fourth in the state, which is usually white. But the final effects would not be had in weeks due to inconsistencies in knowledge in some constituencies and a new application that intended to make the procedure more fluid, but created a headache.
The contest is noted as a temperature reading on how the rest of cycle number one might take place. This can help strengthen applicants before competencies in many states.
Christal Hayes
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich is not the only Republican to speak at the Democratic National Convention. President Donald Trump’s open complaint will be filed through the former governor and a former New York Republican lawmaker.
Democrats announced THE GOP schedule on the first day of its virtual convention. In addition to Kasich, which had already been announced, former rep Susan Molinari, R-N. And, former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman and former G.G. Republican. Governor Meg Whitman plans to speak at the convention.
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The 4 Republicans will comment on a segment that is advertised as “We, the rest of us put the crusade above the party.” They all braggedly criticized Trump. Meg Whitman donated $500,000 to the Biden Victory Fund this year, according to the crusade records.
– Nicolas Wu