U.S. Democrats formally nominate Joe Biden for president
The ongoing U.S. Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Tuesday voted to officially nominate Joe Biden as the party’s presidential candidate.
Biden, already the presumptive nominee since April when all other contenders in the once crowded Democratic field dropped their bids, briefly addressed supporters from his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, after a virtual presidential roll call.
“Thank you all from the bottom of my heart, from my family, and I’ll see you on Thursday,” he said, referring to his upcoming acceptance speech to wrap up the four-day convention.
The Democratic nomination entitled the 77-year-old former vice president to take on incumbent President Donald Trump of the Republican Party in the upcoming election scheduled for Nov. 3.
Unlike prior conventions where delegates would gather in an arena and the delegations from each state would be called upon to announce how many delegates pledge for each candidate, this year the presidential roll call happened virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.
While the delegates appearing in the video by and large enthusiastically made the case that Biden was the country’s best choice for president in the next four years, first-term congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used her slot to nominate Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a leading figure of the progressive wing in the Democratic field and Biden’s longest-lasting rival in the primary.
Herself a progressive, Ocasio-Cortez used the occasion to pitch for the progressive movement’s goals, including Medicare for All, tuition-free college education, and achieving fair wages and protecting labor rights for all.
Similar to the previous night, Tuesday night’s guest speakers spoke highly of Biden’s competence for the U.S. presidency while making scathing criticism of Trump.
Among the Democratic luminaries who delivered remarks was former President Jimmy Carter, who said Biden “understands that honesty and dignity are essential traits that determine not only our vision but our actions. More than ever, that’s what we need.”
And former President Bill Clinton said Biden is “committed to building America back again.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the now Republican-controlled Senate, said Biden alone can’t “win this battle for the soul of our nation,” adding that “Democrats must take back the Senate.”
Heading into its third day on Wednesday, the DNC is expected to nominate California Senator Kamala Harris as the party’s vice presidential candidate.
Former President Barack Obama, in whose administration Biden served as vice president from 2009 to 2017, will deliver a speech on Wednesday, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hilary Clinton also invited to speak.
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Source: Xinhua
America is going down the toilet. IT IS DONE. Biden the pedophile with Dementia and Harris who literally slept her way to the top are just what America needs to finish its days as an empire or the idiots could re elect Don the Con Trump and Mike the moron Pence and go out with a bang. No matter, the US is in its death throws right now.
It’s up to Americans to decide who should be their president. Putin and Xi must be sitting there salivating at the mouth at the idea that they have Biden as their opponent! Putin destroyed and outplayed Obama ( who people think was clever!) He will do the same with Biden.
China refused to pur down the red carpet for Obama when he arrived in Beijing and every single one of China’s billion population saw the humiliation of the IDS president walk out the ass of the plane,!! How can Biden stop China when his own drug addict son gathered 1.5 billion in investment funds from Chinese govt controlled companies.
Just saying!
America is a Humanitarian Disaster.
America is in a serious perilous trend.
The removal from office in November of the “infamous” elected 45th President of the United States – Donald. J. Trump, should be what the outcome of there Presidential result does in fact happen.
The conundrum for The United States of America, is the election of the 46th President.
Joe Biden, spent near on 50 years of his life, in Washington, DC.
He is a product of the American political machine.
Biden, a distinguished and respectable political career, that does have merit, but he will not be the answer, to take or reverse the destructive imploding, or the collapsing of America, that is being witnessed, before our very eyes, at present.
What will be of interest is the other side, if Trump is re-elected, which can’t be dismissed.
America, will suffer greater than they endured through the effects and the ramifications of The Great Depression.
This will be the case no matter who they elect as there President this coming November.
Have the Democratic Party got the skills to re-build America ?
Answer – NO.
They appear to be “top heavy” with powerbrokers ,who have had there time and chance, to make a difference, and all that has continued, over decades, is that America is a SHAMBLES.
Stay Well – ALL.