pic.twitter.com/loINoC7kDq. DNC 2020, Night 3: Harris' big speech, Obama's moment and more to watch for . They worked together as part of a larger group that secured a settlement with major banks and lenders who were accused of predatory lending practices in the run-up to the crash. McCain, before his death, voted against Trump’s attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act drew the President’s ire, leading him to attack McCain in personal terms. Coronavirus. Bowser, who backed the billionaire former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg during the Democratic presidential primary, described the plan to reallocate police funding as unsound and actively worked to block the change.

When Kamala Harris took the stage on Wednesday night, it looked very different from past conventions. In an implicit rebuke of President Trump’s famous convention line from 2016, when the future president pledged that “I alone can fix it,” Obama on Wednesday said he believed Biden and Harris could “lead this country of dark times,” but that their election wouldn’t be enough.

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", Concluding her speech, Harris said, "Years from now, this moment will have passed and our children and our grandchildren will look in our eyes and ask us: Where were you when the stakes were so high? It's all turning, think of it, think of it. Barkan connected his experience to the suffering that has accompanied the coronavirus pandemic, which he said laid bare the cruelest elements of a broken system. Ok just checking, Tonight is the crying night of the #DemConvention. Former President Barack Obama tweeted congrats to Biden on his acceptance of the nomination. "We will tell them what we did.". Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden praised his wife, saying “Hi everyone, I’m Jill Biden’s husband,” right after she finished remarks at tonight’s Democratic National Convention.

What this would normally look like: music blaring; a convention floor jam-packed with party faithful; the energy and buzz of an excited crowd.

Harris called out Biden for his past positions on busing during a primary debate, but she went out of her way to say that she did not believe Biden to be a racist. That was on a perfect conversation.

Former President Barack Obama appeared to choke up briefly, too, describing the racism Black Americans have faced in pursuit of their voting rights. That is how they win,” Obama said. "Joe will bring us together to end this pandemic and make sure that we are prepared for the next one. Let’s fight with hope.

We're finding mercy and grace in the moments we might have once taken for granted. Democrats showcased the diversity of their coalition, with every race and background represented and musical performances in both Spanish and English, culminating in Harris, the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, accepting her party’s nomination for vice president. ", In his speech, earlier in the evening Obama laid into his successor, excoriating Trump as incapable of handling the responsibilities of the presidency and uninterested in “taking the job seriously.”, Speaking before Sen. Kamala Harris, Obama said that while he never expected Trump to “embrace my vision or continue my policies,” he also never believed he would treat the presidency as “anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves. Follow us here on NBCNews.com for breaking news, analysis and fact checks. Kamala Harris became the first Black and South Asian woman nominated to a major party's presidential ticket tonight. We can't call Barrett's claim false despite Trump's next-day explanation: The President's imprecise claim at the rally was open to viewer interpretation. But Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor and former president of the Chicago Police Board, has been criticized for her resistance to demands by local police reform leaders, as well as some of decisions throughout her career. Everything about everything lately is all so different, but how quiet it is in here - footsteps soaked up by the carpeting and so few people in here to begin with - is the most jarring to me. Harris noted that women had earned the right to vote 100 years ago -- but that Black women faced a longer battle for voting rights. Its 3.67% limit on uranium purity was scheduled to end in 2030. Powell, a retired four-star general who served as secretary of state during President George W. Bush’s first term, including the invasion of Iraq, also pointed to the military service of Biden’s son, the late Beau Biden, who was deployed there in 2008 and 2009.

The eerie quiet and the shadows cast by the lights on the state pylons. Hammering away at a message that has become a theme of the night, President Barack Obama lamented the precarious state of democracy in America, then urged voters to go to the polls in November on a mission to save it.

Then when it was done, the ticket and their spouses waved as they would to a crowd, which was only the small group reporters, photographers, and Secret Service agents in the room.

While those mayors mark the progress of women and people of color in American politics, racial justice advocates and criminal justice reformers would prefer those local officials had been more progressive in implementing policy on the front lines. "These classrooms will ring out with laughter and possibility once again," she said. “Beau and Hunter got to have breakfast every morning with their dad,” Harris said.

For instance, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had been broadly celebrated on the left when she won the mayorship in 2019, as a Black lesbian taking the reins of the third-largest city in the United States. ", "I’ve fought against transnational gangs," she said. Harris was officially nominated by her sister Maya, niece Meena, and stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff.