Here is the schedule highlights for the Democratic National Convention.
Monday’s theme: United Together
Gavel time expected at 4:30 pm Eastern
Headlining speakers: first lady Michelle Obama, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, DREAMer Astrid SilvaTuesday’s theme: “A Lifetime of Fighting for Children and Families”
Gavel time expected at 4:30 pm Eastern
The roll call vote to officially nominate Hillary Clinton begins Tuesday.
Headlining speakers: former President Bill Clinton and Mothers of the Movement, including Eric Garner’s mother Gwen Carr, Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton, Dontré Hamilton’s mother Maria Hamilton, Jordan Davis’s mother Lucia McBath, Michael Brown’s mother Lesley McSpadden, Hadiya Pendleton’s mother Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, and Sandra Bland’s mother Geneva Reed-VealWednesday’s theme: “Working Together”
Gavel time expected at 4:30 pm Eastern
Headlining speakers: President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe BidenThursday’s theme: “Stronger Together”
Headlining speakers: Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton
Gavel time expected at 4:30 pm EasternHere is the full schedule.
Interesting, where is Tim Kaine? He will be added to the Wednesday schedule. The Dems have too much star power.
The headlining speakers speak during the 10 pm hour. That’s 6 hours a day of speaking time left, some of which will be taken up by adopting the Platform and the Rules (on Monday) and going through the roll call starting on Tuesday where we tally up the delegate votes between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. I wonder if Bernie will pull a Hillary here and move to accept Hillary’s nomination by acclamation, which is what Hillary did half way through the roll call in 2008. Bernie has been very restrained during this past weekend, and I actually appreciate that. He has not gone nuts over the DNC emails, except to rightly say he was right and to say that he has been calling for DWS to resign for months. That’s all fair. And while he delivered some mild criticism of Tim Kaine, he was still a happy warrior about the need to elect Hillary Clinton.
In other words, Bernie realizes he has won a lot. He won the platform. He won a Primary Process Unity Commission that will look at reforms for 2020 and he won an immediate reform of the Super Delegates, tying most of them to the vote in their states, and he finally got DWS fired. I think we will see a great speech from Bernie tonight.
All of these people will be speaking too:
Congressional leadership: Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (NV); House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA)
Members of Congress: Sen. Tim Kaine (VA), Hillary Clinton’s VP pick; Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA); Sen. Cory Booker (NJ); Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA); Sen. Sherrod Brown (OH); Sen. Bob Casey (PA); Sen. Al Franken (MN); Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY); Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN); Sen. Chris Murphy (CT); Sen. Chuck Schumer (NY); Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (NH); Sen. Jeff Merkley (OR); Sen. Barbara Mikulski (MD); Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (NY); Rep. Raul Grijalva (AZ); Rep. Joyce Beatty (OH); Rep. Xavier Becerra (CA); Rep. Brendan Boyle (PA); Rep. Bob Brady (PA); Rep. Joaquín Castro (TX); Rep. Keith Ellison (MN); Rep. Joe Kennedy (MA); Rep. Linda Sanchez (CA); Rep. James Clyburn (SC); Rep. Joseph Crowley (NY); Rep. Ben Ray Luján (NM); Rep. G.K. Butterfield (NC); Rep. Judy Chu (CA); Rep. Maxine Waters (CA); Rep. Ruben Gallego (Arizona); Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM); Rep. Luis Gutierrez (IL); Rep. Adam Schiff (CA); Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX); Rep. Ted Lieu (CA); Rep. Nita Lowey (NY); Rep. Gwen Moore (WI); Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (Washington, DC)
Mayors: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio; Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan; Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti; Chillicothe, Ohio, Mayor Luke Feeney; Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed; Flint, Michigan, Mayor Karen Weaver; Columbia, South Carolina, Mayor Steve Benjamin; Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; Boston Mayor Marty Walsh; Tallahassee, Florida, Mayor Andrew Gillum; Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney.
Governors: Gov. Tom Wolf (PA); Gov. Jerry Brown (CA); Gov. Andrew Cuomo (NY); Gov. Mark Dayton (MN); Gov. John Hickenlooper (CO); Gov. Terry McAuliffe (VA); Gov. Dannel Malloy (CT); Former Gov. Howard Dean (VT); Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (MI); Former Gov. Martin O’Malley (MD)
Democratic politicians, Democratic Party members, former officials: Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (AZ); Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (CA); State Sen. Pat Spearman (NV); State Rep. Raumesh Akbari (TN); State Rep. Peggy Flanagan (MN); Majority Leader State Rep. Crisanta Duran (CO); Former State Rep. Bakari Sellers (SC); State party chair Jaime Harrison (SC); Former Sen. Tom Harkin (IA); State Sen. Ruben Kihuen (NV); Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes (KY); Former Congressman and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta; Former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey; Former state Sen. Jason Carter (GA); State Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal (IA); DNC Vice Chair Donna Brazile
Activists, interest groups, motivational speakers: Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader;
DREAMer Astrid Silva; Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood Action Fund president; Lee Saunders
, AFSCME president; Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO president; Randi Weingarten,
American Federation of Teachers president; Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr; Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton; Dontré Hamilton’s mother, Maria Hamilton; Jordan Davis’s mother, Lucia McBath; Michael Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden
Hadiya Pendleton’s mother, Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley; Sandra Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed-Veal; Anastasia Somoza, intellectual and developmental disabilities advocate; Karla & Francisca Ortiz, undocumented immigrants; Kate Burdick, staff attorney at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia; Anton Moore, founder of a nonprofit focused on educating youth on gun violence; Dustin Parsons, Arkansas elementary school teacher; Joe Sweeney, New York police detective during the 9/11 attacks; Lauren Manning, 9/11 survivor; Ryan Moore, health care reform advocate; Erica Smegielski, daughter of principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School, who died in the shooting; Felicia Sanders & Polly Sheppard, Charleston church shooting survivors; Jamie Dorff, wife of helicopter pilot who died in northern Iraq; Beth Mathias, Ohio supporter; Khizr Khan, father of an American Muslim who died serving in the US Army; Lily Eskelsen García, National Education Association president; Mary Kay Henry, SEIU president; Sean McGarvey, Building Trades president; Ilyse Hogue, NARAL president; Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign; Gene Karpinski, League of Conservation Voters president; Sarah McBride, LGBTQ rights activist; Stephanie Schriock, EMILY’s List president; Neera Tanden, Center for American Progress Action Fund president
Celebrities, athletes, entertainers: Katy Perry, musician; Demi Lovato, musician; Lena Dunham, writer, actor, director; Chloe Grace Moretz, actor; Eva Longoria, actor; America Ferrera, actor; Debra Messing, actor; Captain Mark Kelly, astronaut; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball player; Jason Collins, basketball player; Tony Goldwyn, actor
Military: Gen. John Allen (ret. USMC); Rear Adm. John Hutson (Ret. USN)
Politico: “Stephanie Schriock, the president of EMILY’s List, is the leading candidate. In addition to running EMILY’s List, Schriock managed Senate races for Al Franken and John Tester and has very close ties with the Clinton campaign.”
E.J. Dionne Jr. at The Washington Post asks whether hope trump fear in Philadelphia?
Democrats will be battling what they see as a false equivalence in the media that casts both major-party candidates in the same light because of surveys giving each of them historically high negative scores. Clinton’s campaign wants Democrats (who will form a large part of the television audience) to come away with new enthusiasm for their candidate, and swing voters to see Clinton as far more ready than Trump, by experience and temperament, to be president.
Accentuating the positive will also be important because Trump has bet his candidacy on his ability to persuade a sufficient share of the electorate that the nation really is in the midst of a catastrophic crisis.
Here is where the minority of Americans who pay close attention to both conventions will suffer from an acute case of whiplash: Democrats will not only be arguing that Clinton offers a better future; they will be vigorously defending President Obama’s legacy.
Republicans may come to regret their decision to harness Clinton and Obama together as twin authors of a national apocalypse.
Nicholas Kristof finds the evidence pretty compelling that Trump is a racist. I also find the evidence pretty compelling that the sky is blue.
“Here we have a man who for more than four decades has been repeatedly associated with racial discrimination or bigoted comments about minorities, some of them made on television for all to see. While any one episode may be ambiguous, what emerges over more than four decades is a narrative arc, a consistent pattern — and I don’t see what else to call it but racism.”