Michelle Obama: 'Right now, kids in this country are seeing what happens when we stop requiring empathy of one another. They're looking around wondering if we've been lying to them this whole time about who we are and what we truly value.' DemConvention
will kick off primetime coverage each day at 7 p.m. ET on the network's steaming news channel and primetime coverage will air from 10-11 p.m. ET each night of the convention on the ABC Television Network.10:58 p.m. Michelle Obama recalls famous 'when they go low, we go high' speech
Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks during the first night of the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 17, 2020. The DNC released excerpts of her speech ahead of the convention start. Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman said her support for Biden was about"a person decent enough, stable enough, strong enough to get our economy back on track."
"I'm a lifelong Republican, but that attachment holds second place to my responsibility to my country," he added., the Movement for Black Lives alongside actors Jane Fonda, Matt McGorry, Kendrick Sampson call for amendments to the DNC platform while reading rejected amendments that were tied to the Movement for Black Lives Electoral Justice Project's BREATHE Act.
The Movement for Black Lives challenged the DNC to change their platform noting that"the Democratic Party won't stand up for Black and Brown lives, it's on us to call them out and push them to do better."10:10 p.m. Whitmer compares Obama/Biden response to economic crisis to Trump response to coronavirus
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses the virtual Democratic National Convention, Aug. 17, 2020. The convention, which was once expected to draw 50,000 people to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is now taking place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. She said that in late May, when the stay-at-home order was lifted in Arizona, her father went to a karaoke bar with his friends. He was on a ventilator a few weeks later and after five days,"he died alone in the ICU with a nurse holding his hand."
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