{"id":40796,"date":"2020-08-17T10:47:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40796"},"modified":"2020-08-17T10:47:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:47:46","slug":"tonight-at-the-democratic-national-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/17\/tonight-at-the-democratic-national-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight at the Democratic National Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ve been watching political conventions on TV every year, since I was a child.&nbsp; The one exception was the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.&nbsp; I was busy demonstrating and trying to defend myself against a police riot.&nbsp; This year, there will be a completely unique convention.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0817MonDNC\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0817MonDNC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/0817MonDNC.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"421\">  <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, CNN gave an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/17\/politics\/dnc-schedule-speakers-monday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overview<\/a> of the major speakers to expect on the kickoff night of the Democratic National Convention, as the party holds its nominating ceremony virtually for the first time in history.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>It will be a convention unlike any other: The coronavirus pandemic forced Democrats to scrap their planned in-person Milwaukee convention,\u201d said the report. \u201cInstead, speakers will deliver speeches from locations across the country and without the large in-person crowds that are traditionally seen at these events. All eyes will be on how smoothly the transition to a virtual convention works<\/strong>.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTop speakers of the night include former first lady Michelle Obama, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and a Republican \u2014 former Ohio Gov. John Kasich,\u201d continued the report. \u201cObama and Sanders are two of the most popular figures in Democratic politics. Kasich, a former presidential candidate, is emblematic of the kind of anti-Trump Republican who Biden is hoping to win over in November.\u201d&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2020\/08\/dnc-monday-night-speakers-what-to-expect-on-the-kickoff-night-of-democrats-first-of-its-kind-virtual-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raw Story<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for much more info.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">CNN talked about the whole convention, not just tonight.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iN0gPsxS7mM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The DNC will look a lot different this year<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/iN0gPsxS7mM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hope it goes well.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll try to include the full video from the night before every day.<\/font>  <\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching political conventions on TV every year, since I was a child.&nbsp; The one exception was the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.&nbsp; I was busy demonstrating and trying to defend myself against a police riot.&nbsp; This year, there will be a completely unique convention. On Monday, CNN gave an overview of the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/17\/tonight-at-the-democratic-national-convention\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3788,3714],"class_list":["post-40796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-democrats","tag-video","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}