Tim Walz headlines third night of DNC with help, Bill Clinton, Oprah and Stevie Wonder: a personal story of hunting, infertility, and reproductive rights
He tells voters about himself and his ideas in a big way, because of his Midwestern background. He grew up in the small Nebraska town of Butte, attended a state university and eventually became a teacher.
Walz also spoke, as he and his wife Gwen have repeatedly, about their struggle with infertility prior to having their two children, and the “absolute agony when we heard that the treatments hadn’t worked.” Their experience has allowed Walz to speak personally to reproductive rights issues which have become more important for the Democrats since the Supreme Court overturned Wade.
Walz highlighted another aspect of his personal story – his status as a veteran and his experience as a hunter – describing himself as a “better shot than most Republicans in Congress,” while calling for restrictions designed to prevent gun violence.
He used football metaphors to describe the urgent task that the Democrats will face in the remainder of the year.
In another high-profile political speech, former President Bill Clinton used his remarks to thank President Biden for stepping in to lead after Trump’s tumultuous presidency and bringing the country through the pandemic.
Clinton said that Harris is the only candidate with good temperament and experience for president, and praised the two people for their all-American life stories.
Mini Timmaraju, president of Reproductive Freedom for All, noted that voters in several states will have the opportunity to vote on ballot measures related to abortion rights in November.
A video speech from a couple whose marriage was done by Harris while she was California’s attorney general was featured on the program.
Dana Nessel spoke of both abortion rights and gay rights when describing her decision to not enforce the 1931 abortion ban in Michigan.
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Goldberg- Polin is one of more than 100 hostages who are still being held in Gaza. He was born in Oakland, California, which is the same place as Harris.
Jon Polin spoke of a surplus of agony on the sides of the tragic conflict in the Middle East. There are no winners in a competition of pain.
Meanwhile, some members of the “uncommitted” movement – a pro-Palestinian group designed to put pressure on Democrats to address their concerns – complained that no representatives of their movement had been allowed to speak on stage at the DNC.
Like the first two nights, the evening included a plea to Republicans who’ve become disillusioned with former President Trump, to support the Democratic ticket.
There is a former Trump White House official who believes working inside of the administration is terrifying and that she is fearful of another Trump term where the guard rails would be gone.
Troye continued the evening’s theme, saying she’s supporting Harris “not because we agree on every issue but because we agree on the most important issue: protecting our freedom.”
Bill Clinton, Pete Buttigieg, and the Republicans who spoke Wednesday appealed to undecided voters and persuadable independents in a way that was similar to what Donald Trump said in an ideal world.
In addition to Winfrey — the biggest star of the night — the evening featured several other celebrity guests, including singers John Legend, Maren Morris and Stevie Wonder.
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A SNL veteran carrying a giant bound copy of a plan developed by a conservative think tank on stage. He paged through the document and hosted a number of video conversations with ordinary people who might be adversely affected by its policies including a woman in a same-sex marriage.
Thompson warned that everything they talked about was real. “You can stop it from ever happening by electing Kamala Harris as the next President of the United States.”
Potential future candidates are given the chance to stand out in a large audience at a convention if they do well at the event and win the election.
Oprah Winfrey, the Clintons, President Biden, and many other leaders spoke before Harris took the stage Thursday night.
Democrats have trouble coming across as being in tune with other people’s cultures. But Walz, as he did in his first speech when he was introduced as Harris’ pick, showed that he has a common touch. It’s notable that the ticket with the Ivy League degrees is Trump-Vance and not Harris-Walz. (Joe Biden, by the way, was the first president since Reagan not to have an Ivy League degree.)
In making his case for Democratic ideas, he didn’t just paint them as radical, like the Republicans did, but instead made the case for what they are and what they should be.
They were certainly on display Wednesday night with speeches by not just Buttigieg, but also people like Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore – three names the country is likely to hear again in Democratic presidential primaries in either four or eight years.
See Jon. At this point, the convention has been a great success. The reason is that President Biden stepped aside in favor of Harris. Democrats, who had been telling pollsters for more than a year that they did not like their choices, have been invigorated.
There was a double meaning to those chants of, “Thank you, Joe.” Thank you for what you did as president, but also, thank you for getting out of the race. The stemwinder Biden gave in his valedictory speech made clear that Democrats were worried about his candidacy.
According to his wife, she may be the only person dumb enough to follow her. And that’s because she brought the house down. She was not saying many things in her speech for at least eight years. She delivered searing lines about the “affirmative action of generational wealth,” and that Trump tried to stoke fear about her and her husband because he was threatened by two highly educated and successful people, “who happened to be Black.”
Harris would be the first woman to be president, the first black woman and the first South Asian to do so, and a lot was made of it. That would be a major historical feat. It’s unusual to see a man rounding the edges of a wife who is running for president. It is different from what Bill Clinton did in 2016 for Hillary Clinton. The Clintons had a child with a well-known former president.
Emhoff, on the other hand, is someone far less known and his family’s story showed a lot of new things on a political stage. It showed the challenges of step parenting and an interracial marriage. And remember, a significant percentage of marriages end in divorce, so millions of Americans can identify with blended families.
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And now the table is set for Harris. She will be making a speech in front of likely the largest audience she’s had yet. Her candidacy has sparked a lot of interest, so it is a good chance for her to keep it going. Can she deliver?
