WILMINGTON: Kamala Harris made history Wednesday (Aug 19) when she accepted the Democratic nomination for vice-president, while joining Barack ...
As a result, Trump has left America's"worst impulses unleashed, our proud reputation around the world badly diminished, and our democratic institutions threatened like never before," Obama said.LEAVE NOTHING TO CHANCE
Others on the night's program included Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who unsuccessfully challenged Biden for the nomination, and Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives.Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who has become a gun control advocate after being shot and severely wounded in a 2011 assassination attempt, also spoke, along with Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the Parkland school shooting.
"Tonight, I am asking you to believe in Joe and Kamala's ability to lead this country out of dark times and build it back better," he said in his speech.Obama spoke two days after his wife, Michelle Obama, opened the convention with a scathing takedown of Trump as"the wrong president for our country".Tuesday's lineup featured two other former presidents - 95-year-old Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, 74, who called the Trump White House"a storm centre".
The nomination is the latest in a lifetime of firsts for the 55-year-old daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother who were immigrants to the United States.
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