'Democrats Pound Their Message: To Oust Trump, You Must VOTE'
'Democrats pound their message: To oust Trump, you must vote.' By Steve Peoples, Michelle L. Price, Alexandra Jaffee. 1 hr. ago, AP News, Aug. 20, 2020. - Ed.:
- Aug. 12, 2020, Senator Kamala Harris, D-CA, speaks after Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden introduced her as his running mate at a campaign event at Alexis Dupont High School in Wilmington, Delaware. -
Wilmington Del. (AP) — Former President Obama warned Wednesday night that American democracy may not survive if Trump is reelected, delivering a scathingly remarkable assessment of his successor at the Democratic National Convention. Then delegates broke a historic barrier by nominating Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate & the first Black woman on a national political ticket. Obama, himself a barrier breaker as the nation’s first Black president, pleaded with voters to “embrace your own responsibility as citizens – to make sure that the basic tenets of our democracy endure. Because that’s what is at stake right now. Our democracy.”
The 3rd night of the Democrats’ 4-day convention stood out for its urgent focus on voting & the party’s commitment to progressive values on issues like gun violence & climate change. Democrats targeted Trump’s policies as dangerous, casting him as cruel in his treatment of immigrants, disinterested in the nation’s climate crisis and over his head on virtually all of the nation’s most pressing challenges.. High-profile party figures spoke directly to women & all voters of color, whose energy this fall could ultimately decide the outcome. Harris, a 55-year-old Calif. senator & daughter of Jamaican & Indian immigrants, addressed race & equality in a personal way Biden cannot when he formally accepts his party’s presidential nomination on Thursday.
..Wednesday, the Republican president railed against Biden & his party at a press conference while praising a conspiracy theory group that claims Trump’s opponents have links to satanism & child sex trafficking. “We’re saving the world from a radical left philosophy that will destroy this country,” Trump said. “And when this country is gone, the rest of the world would follow.” Hyperbole & praise for far-right extremists has become a hallmark of Trump’s presidency, which has inflamed tensions at home & alienated allies around the world.
Voting was a dominant theme for Democrats on Wednesday. Harris insisted that Democrats to have a specific “voting plan” to overcome the obstacles raised by the coronavirus pandemic & postal slowdowns. She warned that the nation is at a critical point, struggling under Trump’s “chaos,” “incompetence”and “callousness.” “We can do better & deserve so much more,” Harris said. “We must elect a president who will bring something different, something better, and do the important work. A president who will bring all of us together- Black, White, Latino, Asian, Indigenous- to achieve the future we collectively want.”...
Hillary Clinton, the first woman nominated for president by a major party, spoke, too...
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