WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Kamala Harris is poised to make history as the first Black woman to accept a spot on a major party’s presidential ticket.
It’s a moment intended to galvanize Democratic voters heading into the fall campaign against President Donald Trump. Wednesday night’s speech will be her second at the Democratic National Convention.
But the stakes are higher than ever before as Harris tries to unite the party behind its presidential candidate, Joe Biden, while also introducing herself to a national audience who may be tuning into the campaign for the first time.
Barack Obama will issue a blistering rebuke of President Donald Trump in Wednesday’s Democratic Party convention. According to excerpts of Obama’s speech, he will accuse Trump of unleashing America’s “worst impulses” and treating the presidency as a reality show “to get the attention he craves.”
The former president also puts the stakes in the November election in stark terms, warning that the future of American democracy is on the line in the race between Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.
Obama’s address comes two days after his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, headlined the Democratic convention.
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