Kamala Harris makes a surprise appearance on the first night of the DNC
Harris addressed the crowd and the raucous applause saying she wanted to kick off the convention by paying tribute to President Biden.
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Harris addressed the crowd and the raucous applause saying she wanted to kick off the convention by paying tribute to President Biden.
Their flight was cancelled, so these delegates mounted a road trip to the DNC
Weather conditions on the East Coast forced some flight cancellations to Chicago late Sunday night — including the flight that two New York delegates, Erik Bottcher and Allen Roskoff, along with Shaun Abreu, who is a member of the DNC Rules Committee, were supposed to be on.
Harris clinched the nomination in 16 days — the fastest in more than three decades
On top of a historically short rise to the nomination, Harris' candidacy comes extremely late in the presidential campaign. Here's how it compares to past presidential tickets.
The DNC spotlights Black leaders who set the stage for Kamala Harris’ run
Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison and convention chair Minyon Moore, who are both Black, kicked off the event with remarks spotlighting past Black leaders who set the stage for Harris’ run.
This was supposed to be Biden's convention. Instead, tonight, he's the opening act
President Biden had made a career of digging in and proving the doubters wrong — until he finally met a political crisis he couldn’t ride out.
Harris and Walz campaign in Pennsylvania ahead of Democratic Convention
The state is a key battleground in the November election.
What we know — and don’t know — about the Harris policy agenda
Vice President Harris is only just beginning to lay out her policy platform for her compressed election race. Here’s what we know so far.
The DNC starts today. Here’s what you need to know
The Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago, just a month after the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and a few short weeks after Harris got in the running for president.
Trump's campaign called it an economic address. He made big promises but mostly veered off-topic
For good or ill, Donald Trump failed to stay on message as he gave what his aides billed as a major economic address in North Carolina. The former president opened his speech Wednesday with off-script attacks on the media and aired his grievances over the Democrats swapping Vice President Kamala Harris for President Joe Biden atop their ticket.
Why 'weird' works for Tim Walz and Kamala Harris
Ever since Minnesota governor and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz called Republicans "weird," we've seen other Democrats embrace this name-calling strategy and deploy it in interviews and in memes online. We've also seen Republicans lobbing the "weird" moniker right back at Democrats. To get into how "weird" this all is, Brittany chats with NPR culture reporter Andrew Limbong and NPR political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben about this new political strategy and redefining "normalcy" in 2024.