Former President Bill Clinton will make the case for US presidential candidate Joe Biden as the Democrats look to turbo charge their candidate at their national convention on Tuesday.
Joe Biden will be formally nominated on Tuesday (local time) and deliver his acceptance speech on Thursday night. His vice-presidential pick, Senator Kamala Harris, will headline Wednesday night’s program along with former President Barack Obama.
Mr Biden’s wife, Jill, one of his closest political advisers, will deliver the main speech on Tuesday, the second night of the Democratic National Convention, after an opening night that featured a scathing attack on President Donald Trump from former first lady Michelle Obama.
With the four-day convention largely virtual due to the coronavirus, delegates from around the country will cast votes remotely to confirm Mr Biden, 77, as the Democratic nominee for the November 3 election against the Republican Mr Trump, 74.
TV viewership was down. Roughly 18.7 million people watched the first night, according to early Nielsen Media Research provided by Fox News, down from the 26 million people who watched the first night of the party’s 2016 convention.
One of the videos at Tuesday’s event will feature Cindy McCain, widow of senator John McCain, talking about that Arizona Republican’s long friendship with Biden. Mr Trump clashed with Mr McCain, who was the Republican nominee for president in 2008, and the president criticised Mr McCain even after his 2018 death.
Rather than a single keynote speaker on Tuesday, the convention program will put the spotlight on 17 of the party’s rising stars, including Stacey Abrams, the one-time Georgia gubernatorial nominee whom Mr Biden considered for a running mate.
In an effort to draw attention away from Mr Biden, Mr Trump, trailing in opinion polls, will deliver a speech in the hotly contested battleground state of Arizona.
Other Democratic speakers on Tuesday (local time) include former president Jimmy Carter, rising star US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Sally Yates, the former acting US attorney-general who clashed with Mr Trump during her brief tenure overseeing the Justice Department.
Democrats used Monday to demonstrate the broad coalition committed to defeating Mr Trump. Michelle Obama’s impassioned speech drew the most attention. She decried Mr Trump as the “wrong president” for a country reeling from the pandemic, an economic crash and a national reckoning on race relations.
-with agencies
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