Elections

2024 Democratic National Convention: Live Updates

Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris waves on the stage on Day 4 of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., August 22, 2024. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
The 2024 Democratic National Convention is underway in Chicago, where Vice President Kamala Harris will formally accept her party’s presidential nomination, just weeks after President Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her to succeed him. Follow along for live updates and analysis from the NR team:
Dan McLaughlin

Clyburn claims that Project 2025 is “Jim Crow 2.0,” which concedes that the Georgia election law branded that by Biden was not.

Dan McLaughlin

James Clyburn claims that Biden and Harris “reopened the schools,” which is serious revisionist history.

Noah Rothman

Jim Clyburn getting a slot on the first night, sandwiched between the last Democratic nominee to lose a national election and the president (who owes his office to Clyburn) who declined to run, really highlights convention planners’ efforts to usher the Biden-era out the door.

Jeffrey Blehar

Hillary’s pitch for Kamala is all about the glass ceiling and how it remains unbroken. She is literally just recycling 2016: “Do it for her!”

It won’t be a major theme of the convention, but there is a reason why making that a campaign’s organizing rationale didn’t work back then.

Luther Ray Abel

Abortion, agnosticism, and antipathy. Hillary’s speech is truthful insofar as it lays out the Democratic Party’s priorities.

Philip Klein

Nobody could watch this Hillary Clinton speech and be surprised that she lost in 2016.

Dan McLaughlin

Not one of these people comes across as a normal human being.

Luther Ray Abel

@jgeraghty they also appear to have declined mentioning that Kamala Harris grew up in Berkeley — an oversight, I’m sure.

Dan McLaughlin

Hillary is really, really, really the wrong messenger to hit Trump for his legal troubles.

Noah Rothman

Hillary running the Democratic playbook against Trump from the DNC stage surely fills Republicans with existential dread.

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