From the greatest speech of his nearly 50 years in public life, Joe Biden will spell out his vision to its presidency on Thursday when he accepts the Democratic nomination to challenge Donald Trump from the Nov. 3 U.S. election.
Biden's address about the fourth and final night of the Democratic National Convention will be a crowning moment in a lengthy political career for the former U.S. senator and vice president, who fared poorly in two previous runs for the White House in 1988 and 2008.
It will conclude a nominating convention that has been held almost amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the party's biggest names, rising stars and perhaps even prominent Republicans lining up via video to encourage Biden and attest to the urgency of ending what they called Trump's disorderly presidency.
Biden's vice presidential choice, Kamala Harris, the first Black woman and Asian American on a significant presidential ticket, approved her nomination on Wednesday and accused Trump of unsuccessful leadership that had cost lives and livelihoods.
Former President Barack Obama, who Biden served as vice president for eight decades, delivered his harshest review of Trump yet in the convention, stating his hopes that Trump would develop into the job was dashed.
He blamed Trump for the 170,000 people who had died in the United States in the coronavirus, the countless jobs lost to the consequent downturn and a diminishment of the country's democratic principles at home and abroad.
Biden, 77, heads into the general election campaign with a very clear and continuous lead in opinion polls over Trump, 74, who will take the Republican nomination for a second White House term in his own conference next week.
Democrats have worked to expand Biden's aid throughout the convention, especially by showcasing notable Republican supporters such as former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Ohio Governor John Kasich, as well as Americans who voted for Trump in 2016 but now blame him for the economic and health cost of the outbreak.
The acceptance speech will provide Biden his main audience because he had been largely sidelined from the campaign trail by the coronavirus in March.
He'll speak directly to camera at a mostly empty event center in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, not in front of a roaring crowd of conference delegates, adding to the unusual nature of a convention conducted remotely through reside and pre-recorded video feeds.
A close ally of Biden's, U.S. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, said he expected the speech to supply a unifying theme concerning the nation and to not concentrate on Trump.
"He admits that this isn't about Donald Trump, it is not about Joe Biden, it is about us, and it's about who is going to move us forward in a way that reminds us of the very best in America, not the worst," Coons said.
Trump will continue his counter-programming to the Democrats, carrying a campaign event on Thursday near Biden's birthplace of Scranton from the political battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Overdue on Wednesday, Trump issued three tweets in all capital letters throughout the last half of the Democratic conference plan, angrily criticizing Harris and Obama and questioning their allegiance to Biden.
Other scheduled conference speakers on Thursday comprise Biden's 2020 primary rival, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, along with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, the two of whom were on Biden's brief list of potential running mates.
Biden seized the nomination by convincing Democratic primary voters he was the best bet to conquer Trump.
Despite questions about his age and criticism of his moderate stances in a celebration that has lurched leftward, he was able to quickly combine the Democrats' sometimes fractious liberal and moderate wings with the goal of beating Trump.
His final primary rival, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, finished his campaign in April, clearing the way for its showdown between Biden and Trump. Sanders encouraged his fans to back Biden during a speech to the conference on Monday, stating Biden would finish the"hate and branches" jeopardized by Trump.
Biden became a U.S. senator from Delaware in 1973, and rose to become an influential chairman of the Senate Judiciary and Senate Foreign Relations committees before becoming Obama's vice president.
Biden's address about the fourth and final night of the Democratic National Convention will be a crowning moment in a lengthy political career for the former U.S. senator and vice president, who fared poorly in two previous runs for the White House in 1988 and 2008.
It will conclude a nominating convention that has been held almost amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the party's biggest names, rising stars and perhaps even prominent Republicans lining up via video to encourage Biden and attest to the urgency of ending what they called Trump's disorderly presidency.
Biden's vice presidential choice, Kamala Harris, the first Black woman and Asian American on a significant presidential ticket, approved her nomination on Wednesday and accused Trump of unsuccessful leadership that had cost lives and livelihoods.
Former President Barack Obama, who Biden served as vice president for eight decades, delivered his harshest review of Trump yet in the convention, stating his hopes that Trump would develop into the job was dashed.
He blamed Trump for the 170,000 people who had died in the United States in the coronavirus, the countless jobs lost to the consequent downturn and a diminishment of the country's democratic principles at home and abroad.
Biden, 77, heads into the general election campaign with a very clear and continuous lead in opinion polls over Trump, 74, who will take the Republican nomination for a second White House term in his own conference next week.
Democrats have worked to expand Biden's aid throughout the convention, especially by showcasing notable Republican supporters such as former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Ohio Governor John Kasich, as well as Americans who voted for Trump in 2016 but now blame him for the economic and health cost of the outbreak.
The acceptance speech will provide Biden his main audience because he had been largely sidelined from the campaign trail by the coronavirus in March.
He'll speak directly to camera at a mostly empty event center in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, not in front of a roaring crowd of conference delegates, adding to the unusual nature of a convention conducted remotely through reside and pre-recorded video feeds.
A close ally of Biden's, U.S. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, said he expected the speech to supply a unifying theme concerning the nation and to not concentrate on Trump.
"He admits that this isn't about Donald Trump, it is not about Joe Biden, it is about us, and it's about who is going to move us forward in a way that reminds us of the very best in America, not the worst," Coons said.
Trump will continue his counter-programming to the Democrats, carrying a campaign event on Thursday near Biden's birthplace of Scranton from the political battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Overdue on Wednesday, Trump issued three tweets in all capital letters throughout the last half of the Democratic conference plan, angrily criticizing Harris and Obama and questioning their allegiance to Biden.
Other scheduled conference speakers on Thursday comprise Biden's 2020 primary rival, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, along with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, the two of whom were on Biden's brief list of potential running mates.
Biden seized the nomination by convincing Democratic primary voters he was the best bet to conquer Trump.
Despite questions about his age and criticism of his moderate stances in a celebration that has lurched leftward, he was able to quickly combine the Democrats' sometimes fractious liberal and moderate wings with the goal of beating Trump.
His final primary rival, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, finished his campaign in April, clearing the way for its showdown between Biden and Trump. Sanders encouraged his fans to back Biden during a speech to the conference on Monday, stating Biden would finish the"hate and branches" jeopardized by Trump.
Biden became a U.S. senator from Delaware in 1973, and rose to become an influential chairman of the Senate Judiciary and Senate Foreign Relations committees before becoming Obama's vice president.