Washington— Vice President Kamala Harris is riding a wave of voter enthusiasm into theDemocratic National Conventionthat has transformed the race against former President Donald Trump three months before the election.The four-day convention in Chicagobegan Monday, about a month after President Bidenende...
Tim Walz at the DNC: This was a political speed date for a man with limited time to show what he stands for In a speech to the Democratic National Convention that at times emitted the essence of small-town Nebraska, Walz shared the kind of personal st...
Vought is the policy director for the 2024 Republican National Committee's platform committee, which adoptedthe platformat July's convention. John McEntee, former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office under Trump, is a senior advisor to the Heritage Foundation, and said tha...
Lead Art: Pete Buttigieg speaks onstage at the CNN-POLITICO Grill during the 2024 DNC Convention on Aug. 22 in Chicago. | Rod Lamkey Jr. for POLITICO Aug 2024 | from the dnc Yusef Salaam, a member of the‘Central Park Five,’ will speak at the convention He told us that the case...
Going into the summer convention season, there’s usually a clear winner of state primaries and caucuses, making the official nomination process largely ceremonial. But that wasn’t always the case. The history of U.S. presidential elections is filled with conventions that were anything but ...
DJ Cassidy was on hand to spin the decks during the convention’s roll call on Tuesday, playing a special song for each state and territory as their representatives took turns pledging their delegates to back Harris. And while the evening’s playlist was pretty eclectic, featuring everyone from...
is being portrayed, I think, more like an intraparty debate —an ongoing conversation or even negotiationbetween the pro-Palestinian camp and party leaders. This is certainly not 1968, whenanti-war protests outside the DNCovershadowed the convention itself, or even 2016, when hundreds ofpro-...
Here's what Obama said at the DNC convention. "To make progress on the things we care about, the things that really affect people's lives, we need to remember that we've all got our blind spots and contradictions and prejudices. And that if we want to win over those who aren't yet...
Mr. Biden was heading into the convention with nearly 3,900 pledged delegates, but they can now vote for the candidate of their choosing. They do not have to support Harris. Still, Alan Clendenin of Florida, a DNC executive committee member, told CBS News on Sunday that he expects a ...
rules affect how delegates may vote during the convention. Typically, a candidate's home state delegation will push him or her across the threshold to officially secure the nomination. In Trump's case, it would be Florida.But the vote is considered a formality because Trump clinched the n...