Kamala Harris #DNCChicago acceptance speech

 

[VIDEO] Well the 2024 Democrat Nat'l Convention in Chicago is a wrap and Vice President Kamala Harris made her acceptance speech on Thursday night.

It wasn't a bad speech, there were two things I could hit her on which is the border especially. She was the border tsar and she was famously interviewed by NBC News anchor Lester Holt as far as whether or not she went to the border. When she's caught off guard or forced to answer a question she doesn't want to answer she's so awkward.

Either way it wasn't a bad speech. Having seen enough of this convention we see what the Democrats represents. There were some vignettes from those four nights which well it was just strange.

The themes are women's rights, love who you want to love, reproductive rights (and not so much abortion, they talked a lot about in-vitro fertilization), of course they hit on racial issues. Oprah Winfrey on the final night of the convention talked about integrating schools and mentioned one brave child - who passed away as a grandmother recently - who had to endure the possibility of a sniper.

I mean who'd have thought in order to integrate a public school in the south someone would be willing to shoot a child. It just shows how far we've come as a nation though we still have some work to do it seems.

Anyway, I'm a long way from prognosticating the 2024 Presidential Race. The Vice President isn't a great candidate and we could argue Democratic delegates...no Democratic voters didn't really get a chance to vote for her. Most of them voted for the incumbent President who dropped out of the race just last month.

And I look forward to whatever debates the Vice President will have with the 45th President. Certainly it would be great to see her running mate MN Gov. Tim Walz debate OH U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance debate each other as well.

Gov. Tim Walz acceptance speech at #DNCChicago

 

[VIDEO] The Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz speech last night at the Democrat Nat'l Convention in Chicago. He accepts his party's nomination for Vice President and running mate to the presumptive Democrat nominee and sitting Vice President Kamala Harris.

Tonight Kamala Harris will accept the Democrat nomination for President of the United States.

DNC Chicago 2024

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Haven't really had the time to watch the DNC this week. Got a lot going on at home right now.

I did at least see Doug Emhoff, Michelle Obama and former Pres. Barack Obama speak last night. Will share at a later time.

I also understand that IL Gov. J.B. Pritzker spoke last night at the DNC will also share that.

On Monday Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson spoke to the DNC. And also so did outgoing President Joe Biden who dropped out of the 2024 race just last month.

Of course all of our local politicians - especially the high profile ones - will be speaking at a nat'l political convention. From Governor on down. However, expect me to share remarks by the Vice President's running mate MN Gov. Tim Walz and of course Vice Pres. Kamala Harris.

How these usually go Walz will likely speak tonight and then the Vice President will speak on Thursday night , the last evening of the convention.

Thankfully there weren't a lot of problems outside of the convention. I see police were shown in riot gear and of course arrests were made because well some people don't mind pushing the limits. People were expecting Chicago to be out of control and I'm not seeing that yet.

Then again admittedly I'm not following a lot of coverage on whatever protests are going on. Let's hope things don't go to out of control. However, I'm encouraged that Chicago Police will step in before things go too crazy.

WGN: Why Chicago has hosted more presidential conventions than any other city?

 

[VIDEO] Mike Lowe from WGN goes over the history of Presidential conventions that were held in Chicago.  Next week, Chicago hosts the Democratic Nat'l Convention the first one since 1996 when Democrats renominated Bill Clinton as he ran for a second term at President that year.

Abraham Lincoln was nominated in two conventions held in Chicago in 1864 & 1868. One convention was held at the Wigwam which once stood near Wacker & Lake Street in Chicago. As you see in the above video a marker commemorates the site. Besides we're living in the Land of Lincoln. 👍

The last Republican convention held in Chicago was 1960 when they nominated then Vice President Richard Nixon. He would go on to lose to the Democrats' choice then U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy. Illinois proved to be a pivotal state in Kennedy's election to the Presidency.

I do look forward to the day that an Elephant - the Republican's symbol - can one day march along Chicago's city streets. Though in 2024, the Republicans were very close as they were up north in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.