Democrats are primed to celebrate their Kamala Harris-inspired renaissance in Chicago this coming week, less than a month after the U.S. vice president’s ascent.
Democrats are primed to celebrate their Kamala Harris-inspired renaissance in Chicago this coming week, less than a month after the U.S. vice president’s ascent lifted the party’s election hopes and injected fresh and even happy vibes into a campaign once beset by dread over U.S. President Joe Biden’s dismal prospects
Trump lingers, too. He has appeared deeply unnerved by the late Harris-for-Biden swap and largely failed, so far, to mount much of an effective attack on the new Democratic ticket. Democrats have abetted him, Harris in particular, by keeping relatively quiet and allowing the increasingly frustrated former president to write his own bad headlines.
But the Democratic National Convention will be Harris’ biggest stage yet. She’ll close out the four-night affair on Thursday with a prime-time speech accepting the party’s presidential nomination and framing the race against Trump as the two move toward at least one debate in September and the start of early voting in some key states soon afterward.Democrats are getting perhaps the most awkward part of their business out of the way on the first night of the convention: sending off Biden.
Though Trump has disavowed it, Democrats have framed the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025,” a conservative 900-page playbook for a second Trump administration drafted in part by six of Trump’s his former Cabinet secretaries and at least 140 people who worked in his administration, as the former president’s agenda.
Now, though, it’s crunch time. Walz will speak in prime time on Wednesday under the kind of scrutiny he never knew during his time in Congress, the first term of his governorship or during all the years he spent as a high school teacher, as a football coach and in the National Guard.
Two former first ladies, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, are also scheduled to speak at the DNC. Clinton, the former secretary of state and New York senator, was the first woman to be a major party’s presidential nominee, in 2016. There have been no shortage of facile comparisons to 1968, when Chicago police viciously cracked down on anti-war protesters in the parks and streets. It’s a different world now and, more importantly, much different city leadership in Mayor Brandon Johnson, a former union activist who, in an interview with Mother Jones, said, “What’s happening right now is not only egregious, it is genocidal.
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