Colin Powell: “[Biden] will trust our diplomats and our intelligence community, not the flattery of dictators and despots. He will make it his job to know when anyone dares to threaten us. He will stand up to our adversaries with strength and experience.”
Colin Powell, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state in President George W. Bush's administration, praised Joe Biden's candidacy because he will"restore America's leadership and our moral authority."
Speaking from the school where is wife will deliver remarks later tonight, and with his grandchildren and daughter Ashley behind him celebrating, Biden thanked all his supporters, and told them he'd see them on Thursday. The revamped roll call vote to formally nominate former Vice President Joe Biden is still ongoing, but North Carolina put Biden over the top to have enough votes to secure the nomination.
"Roll Call Across America" kicks off in Alabama, with Rep. Terri Sewell delivering the delegation's votes from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the site of"Bloody Sunday," when state troopers attacked civil rights demonstrators, including the late-Rep. John Lewis, in 1965. Bill Clinton:"At a time like this, the Oval Office should be a command center. Instead, it's a storm center. It's only chaos. Just one thing never changes — [Trump'sSenate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer -- in a speech delivered from his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, and within eye line of the Statue of Liberty -- said President Trump has divided the country, diminished its greatness and"demeaned everything that this statue represents.
Former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates speaks during the virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention, Aug. 18, 2020. 2020. The second night of the DNC opens with a keynote address from a group of diverse and young leaders. Using clips from their self-shot videos, the whole speech is pieced together with the 17 people taking turns speaking -- sometimes with each other.coronavirus
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, a group of party officials and a production team putting on the event, a handful of local and national journalists and the Secret Service are all that's left of what was supposed to be Milwaukee's coming out party: a celebration of the midsize city that punched above its weight to land the convention over Miami and Houston.
Sen. Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff greet Jill Biden, wife of Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, after a campaign event at Alexis Dupont High School in Wilmington, Del., Aug. 12, 2020."There are times when I couldn't imagine how he did it — how he put one foot in front of the other and kept going. But I've always understood why he did it. ... He does it for you," she will add.
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