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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Aug 11, 2020, 05:08 PM Aug 2020

Democrats Unveil Lineup Of Speakers For Next Week's Convention

Michelle Obama Will Close First Night

Barack and Michelle Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton each will have speaking slots at next week’s Democratic National Convention, which, because of the coronavirus pandemic, will be almost entirely virtual from locations across the country.

Also speaking will be Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden’s chief challenger for the nomination, and John Kasich, the Republican former governor of Ohio. Three Californians, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom, got speaking slots, although additional speakers and celebrities will be announced in the coming days. Also speaking will be Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the star of the progressive left who had yet to enter elective politics in the last cycle.

Monday
Sanders, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), Kasich, Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and former first lady Michelle Obama.

Tuesday
Former acting attorney general Sally Yates, Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, former Secretary of State John Kerry, Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DL), Bill Clinton, and Jill Biden. Also planned that evening are keynote address, with the speaker yet to be identified, and a virtual roll call of delegates to formally nominate Biden.

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/democrats-unveil-lineup-speakers-next-124703139.html
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Democrats Unveil Lineup Of Speakers For Next Week's Convention (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
Stars, stars, and more stars. Laelth Aug 2020 #1
Sure it's an impressive lineup, but POUTUS will have Hassler Aug 2020 #2

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
1. Stars, stars, and more stars.
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 05:11 PM
Aug 2020

What do the Republicans have that could even BEGIN to compare with that lineup?





-Laelth

Hassler

(3,377 posts)
2. Sure it's an impressive lineup, but POUTUS will have
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 05:31 PM
Aug 2020

The star power of Scott Baio and John Voight. Bwahahahaha!

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