Biden has said he supports funding for community policing programs that improve relationships between officers and residents, but not draining funds from police departments. Biden made his position clear on the convention's opening night when he said "most cops are good" but that bad ones needed to be prosecuted.
Garcetti said he believes the Biden campaign did enough to address question from the left. They're addressed in the people. You heard it from Bernie himself. Sarah Audelo, executive director for Alliance for Youth Action, said her group conducts monthly tracking surveys about what matters to younger voters in battleground states who are persuadable to Biden.
She said defunding police departments is at a top issue for them and the convention missed an opportunity to engage more fully on it. Facebook Twitter Email. Joe Biden bets big on 'character, compassion, decency' at DNC convention. Is that enough to activate the base?
Phillip M. Show Caption. Hide Caption. Joe Biden accepts Democratic Party nomination, outlines challenges. Former vice president Joe Biden accepts the Democratic Party nomination for the presidential election, Biden outlined four crises facing America.
By far the worst performance of any nation on earth. He also promised roads, bridges, highways, broadband, ports and airports to spur economic growth, including 5m new manufacturing and technology jobs.
But predictably, it was hardly the radical, urgent and inspiring manifesto for systemic change that progressives have been urging.
That was in keeping with much of the first virtual party convention in American history. It set out his long life, pockmarked by tragedy, from dashing young politician to lion in winter poised to write a new and unexpected chapter.
But it had less to say on what his first hundred days in office would look like. It swerved past awkward policy differences between the moderate and progressive wings of the party on the climate crisis, criminal justice, healthcare, immigration and other issues. The theme over four days was get-back-to-normal incrementalism, less a moonshot than a promise to fix a clapped-out rocket so it can get off the ground.
Questions linger over the level of enthusiasm and excitement around Biden, a year-old white male moderate. Democrats were therefore wise to constantly remind voters that this election is a referendum on the incumbent. Obama rammed home the point that democracy itself is at stake.
Speakers also urged people to vote and vote early, mindful that Trump is working around the clock to destabilise the election and make it harder for people to cast their ballots.
The all-online format also helped Democrats keep a disciplined narrative. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and former journalist, who eulogized George H.
Bush, Barbara Bush and civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, delivered his remarks from his home in Nashville. When we've lent a hand. Not when we pointed fingers. One of hope of love of justice. If we do so, we might just save our country and our souls. In a tribute to the late Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Movement veteran and original Freedom Rider, Democrats urged Americans to continue pushing for the civil rights issues he championed.
Lewis, who died in July after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, represented his Georgia district for over 30 years. The video also featured Rep. Elijah Cummings, who died in October, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms spoke ahead of the tribute video about the importance of the right to vote, which Lewis fought for on behalf of Black Americans, helping lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of You must use it because it is not guaranteed.
You can lose it. Every person in the movement mattered, including those who made the sandwiches, swept the church floors and stuffed the envelopes, said Bottoms, one of the women whom Biden considered as a running mate.
Bottoms came to national attention earlier this year when she clashed with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp over how to handle the coronavirus, as well as when her city erupted in protests over police brutality. Your passion, your composure, your balance has been really incredible.
It appeared to be a jab at those who mispronounce the name of Harris, as Trump sometimes does. Or is it Paints? Veeps: pic. California Gov. Gavin Newsom says wildfires raging in his state should give pause to anyone who denies climate change.
More than two dozen major wildfires were blazing across California, blanketing cities and towns in smoke and putting tens of thousands of people under evacuation orders.
Newsom criticized President Donald Trump for working to roll back vehicle emission standards meant to curb climate change and for threatening to withhold funding from California. Besides Biden, other Democratic convention speakers will including federal, state and local officials discussing the theme of "America's Promise. Voting rights will be discussed during the night. The pandemic is another subject on the agenda.
Vivek Murthy, a former surgeon general, is scheduled to speak. A video tribute will honor military families. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, an Army veteran who lost her legs in a helicopter crash, will speak. She was among the candidates Biden considered for running mate. Former Biden rivals in the primaries — Sen. Buttigieg, who served in Afghanistan with the Navy Reserve, will speak after a video tribute to the nominee's late son, Beau Biden, whose Army National Guard unit deployed to Iraq.
Tammy Baldwin, who is the first woman elected to the chamber from Wisconsin, a key presidential battleground, is set to speak. She and Buttigieg are each gay. Biden's former rivals for the nomination will speak about how they united behind him. Biden's children and grandchildren will talk about his commitment to his family as an introduction to his speech accepting the nomination.
One in five voters in were Catholic, according to the Pew Research Center. That was a closer split than the 17 percentage point gap in support for Trump among Protestants, a group that includes white evangelicals who voted overwhelmingly for Trump. Biden has dropped his longstanding support for the Hyde Amendment, which blocks federal funding for abortion in most cases. Campbell, a social justice advocate, spoke at the Democratic National Convention in a denunciation of Republican spending priorities.
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