With Donald Trump stealing the headlines once again, amid surging poll numbers, the Clinton campaign will unleash its entirely non-divisive racial equality platform tonight with Jesse Jackson and the Congressional Black Caucus putting everyone straight. Billionaire Mike Bloomberg, VP Biden and VP-hopeful Kaine are also speaking, but today's headliner, closing out the night, is the economic-climate-change-denier-in-chief himself – President Barack Obama.
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And with the DNC halfway over, ABC reports, here are the five storylines to follow today…
From the Present to the Future
The convention heard from two former presidents last night (Jimmy Carter by video and Bill Clinton in person), and tonight delegates will hear from soon-to-be former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Both men have publicly lauded Clinton and supported her campaign, and Obama held a joint campaign appearance with Clinton in North Carolina earlier this month. At that appearance, he said that no one has ever been “more qualified for this office than Hillary Clinton.” Meanwhile, Biden went on the offensive against Donald Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, during an interview with ABC News on Tuesday at the DNC, saying, “These guys don’t know what they’re talking about” when it comes to ISIS.
Pitting One Billionaire Against Another
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg very publicly considered running as a third-party candidate for president but decided against it, in March penning an opinion piece, headlined “The Risk I Will Not Take,” for his namesake news site. A Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent, he will address the Democratic convention tonight and is expected to endorse Clinton. In the opinion piece, he didn’t mention Clinton once but explained that he decided not to run because “my candidacy could lead to the election of Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz. That is not a risk I can take in good conscience,” he said of the two Republicans who were in the midst of their party’s primary contest at that time. Bloomberg detailed the issues he took with Trump’s campaign in the piece, and it seems likely that he will reiterate some of those points this evening.
Meeting Tim Kaine
While tonight may seem like a lineup of familiar political figures, one of the most anticipated speeches comes from Clinton’s vice presidential pick, Tim Kaine. Though he has been a Virginia senator since 2013 and was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee for two years, the rest of his political career was largely focused on the state level. Tonight will be an opportunity for him to introduce himself to the nation and help highlight some of the reasons Clinton went with him.
Racial Justice Likely Subject
The intersection of race and police has been a hot-button issue in light of the shooting deaths of several African-American men at the hands of police in recent weeks, as well as deadly attacks against police officers. Those events will likely be addressed on the convention stage tonight because two of the best-known leaders in their communities are slated to speak. Civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson is due to speak at the Wells Fargo Arena as well as former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, who was part of Obama’s 21st Century Policing Task Force.
Bernie in the Background
Bernie Sanders addressed the convention on the first night, and he was still very much on the minds of attendees on Tuesday, when he nixed the roll call nomination vote in an emotional moment. As the week goes on, however, his planned presence will be lessened. There is no planned action on the floor, and he isn’t slated to make another address to the convention. His supporters are still out in force inside and outside the arena, but the leader of that movement isn’t scheduled to play any further role at the party’s convention.
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Full order of business (via NJ.com):
Here is the current schedule:
Wednesday, July 27
The session will begin at 4:30 p.m.
- Erica Smegielski, whose mother Dawn was the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and was one of 26 people killed in the 2012 mass shooting there
- Felicia Sanders and Polly Sheppard, two of the three survivors of the 2015 shooting at a black church in Charleston, S.C., which killed nine
- Jamie Dorff, whose husband, an Army helicopter pilot from Minnesota, died while on a search and rescue mission in northern Iraq
- Rep. G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina and members of the Congressional Black Caucus
- Rep. Judy Chu of California and members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
- NARAL President Ilyse Hogue
- Retired Navy Rear Adm. John Hutson
- Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson
- Rep. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexco and candidates of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
- Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
- Former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey
- EMILY's List President Stephanie Schriock
- Center for American Progress Action Fund President Neera Tanden
- Vice President Joe Biden
- President Barack Obama
Thursday, July 28
The session begins at 4:30 p.m.
- Henrietta Ivey, a Michigan home care worker who advocates for a $15 an hour minimum wage.
- Beth Mathias of Ohio, who works two jobs
- Jensen Walcott and Jake Reed. Walcott was fired from her job in Bonner Springs, Kan., for asking why her co-worker, and friend, Reed, made more than she did for the same job
- Khizr Khan, whose son, , Humayun S. M. Khan, is one of 14 American Muslims killed after 9/11 serving in the U.S. Armed Forces
- Retired Marine Corps Gen. John Allen, who commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan
- Candidates of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
- Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin
- League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski
- Rep. Sea Patrick Maloney of New York, co-chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, and LGBT rights activist Sarah McBride
- U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Democratic women of the Senate
- Chelsea Clinton, Clinton's daughter
- Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, presumptive Democratic nominee
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