DNC Convention 2024: Day 1
[NB: check the byline, thanks. /~Rayne]
The Democratic National Committee Convention 2024 opened today at United Center in Chicago IL.
Expect both the traditional and the unconventional given the attendees and keynotes as well as the organizers behind this four-day event.
Here’s today’s convention schedule (times shown are Central Time):
7 a.m.-9:30 a.m.: Delegation breakfasts
9 a.m.-10a.m.: Morning press briefing
9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: Black Caucus meeting
9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: Hispanic Caucus meeting
9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: AAPI Caucus meeting
9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: Native American Caucus meeting
9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: Ethnic Council meeting
12 p.m.-1:30 p.m.: LGBTQ+ Caucus meeting
12 p.m.-1:30 p.m.: Small Business Council meeting
12 p.m.-1:30 p.m.: Labor Council meeting
1:45 p.m.-3:15 p.m.: Environmental & Climate Crisis Council meeting
5:30 p.m.-10 p.m.: Main programming
Main programming has already begun.
Best channels on which to catch the majority of this evening’s programming:
• C-SPAN will carry the entire convention uninterrupted for all four days.
• CBS News’ primetime coverage of the convention will air Monday through Thursday from 8-11 p.m. ET and be anchored by “CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell.
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• CNN will provide nearly 24/7 live on-air coverage of the DNC, including special live coverage each night from 8 p.m.-midnight ET with “CNN Democratic National Convention.”
• NewsNation will have special primetime coverage entitled “Decision Desk 2024: The Democratic National Convention,” which will air each day from 8 p.m.-midnight ET. It will be co-anchored by Chris Cuomo, Elizabeth Vargas and Leland Vittert.
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• MSNBC will air special coverage from 8 p.m. to midnight each night and will also livestream all four days of the convention on its YouTube channel, the New York Times reports.
(source for schedule and channel lineup: USA Today)
The other networks including MSNBC’s parent have highly abbreviated coverage.
Tonight’s speaker line up already in progress (via ABC channel 6):
5:15 p.m.
• Call to Order: Minyon Moore, chair of the 2024 Democratic National Convention Committee, Jaime R. Harrison, chairman of the Democratic National Committee
• Invocation: Cardinal Blase Cupich, archdiocese of Chicago
• Land Acknowledgement: Zach Pahmahmie, Tribal Council Vice-Chairman of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and Lorrie Melchior, Tribal Council Secretary of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
• Presentation of Colors: Illinois State Police Honor Guard
• Pledge of Allegiance: William Harrison, 9, and Charles Harrison, 5
• National anthem: Soul Children of Chicago
• Remarks and video introduction: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
• Presentation of the Convention Agenda: Jaime Harrison joined by vice chairs Keisha Lance Bottoms, Ken Martin, and Henry R. Muñoz III, Treasurer Virginia McGregor, and Finance Chair Chris Korge
Confirmatory and Ceremonial Vote for the Vice Presidential Nominee: Minyon Moore6 p.m.
• Welcome remarks: Peggy Flanagan
• Welcome Remarks: Jaime Harrison
• Remarks: U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters
• Joint Remarks: Derrick Johnson, President & CEO of the NAACP and Melanie L. Campbell, President & CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
• Honoring the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr, accompanied by Jonathan Jackson and Yusef D. Jackson.
• Remarks: U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood
• Video: Rich Logis: former Donald Trump voter
• Remarks: U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia
• Remarks: Brian Wallach and Sandra Abrevaya, health care advocates and founders of I Am ALS
• Remarks: U.S. Senator Dick Durbin
• Remarks from Arizona: Dutch Martinez and Ryan Ahern, The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada (UA)
• Remarks: U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty
• Joint Remarks: Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), April Verrett, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Brent Booker, general president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA), Kenneth W. Cooper, international president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Claude Cummings Jr., president of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and Elizabeth H. Shuler, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
• Remarks: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass
• Performance: Mickey Guton
• Joint Remarks on “Investing in the Future”: California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin A. Davis, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sarah Rodriguez and Harris County, Texas Judge Lina Hidalgo7 p.m.
• “Project 2025-Chapter One: Introduction”: Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow
• Remarks: U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schutz
• Remarks: U.S. Sen. Laphonza Butler
• Remarks: U.S. Rep. Linda Haskins
• Remarks: Lt. Jeremy Warmkessel, President of Local 302 IAFF Allentown Firefighters, Pennsylvania
• Remarks: Maria-Isabel Ballivian, Executive Director of the Annandale Christian Community for Action Childhood Development Center, Virginia
• Remarks: Deja Foxx, reproductive rights activists and content creator
• Performance: Jason Isbell
• Remarks: Gina M. Raimondo, United States secretary of commerce
• Remarks: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul8 p.m.
• Remarks: Steve Kerr, Team USA men’s basketball coach
Shawn Fain, president of the United Automobile Workers
• U.S. Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez
• Remarks: Stacey Johnson-Batiste and Doris Johnson, childhood friends of Kamala Harris
• Hillary Rodham Clinton, former United States secretary of state
• U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn
• U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin
• U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett
• U.S. Rep. Grace Meng9 p.m.
• Joint Remarks: Amanda and Josh Zurawski, Texas; Kaitlyn Joshua, Louisiana; Hadley Duvall, Kentucky
• Remarks: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear
• Remarks: The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, Georgia senator
• Remarks: U.S. Sen. Chris Coons
• Remarks: First Lady Jill Biden
• Performance: James Taylor
• Ashley Biden
• President Joe Biden
• Benediction: Rabbi Michael S. Beals and Pastor Cindy Rudolph
• Gavel out: Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan
Some of the DNCC’s events noted above were conducted at McCormick Place earlier in the day, including these speakers:
• Black Caucus featuring Rep. Barbara Lee and Rep. Jahana Hayes
• Hispanic Caucus featuring Miguel Cardona, House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar and Rep. Maxwell Frost
• AAPI Caucus featuring Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi
• Native American Caucus featuring Tucson Mayor Regina Romero
• Ethnic Council featuring Lisa Ann Walter and former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
• LGBTQ+ Caucus featuring Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, BenDeLaCreme, and Peppermint
• Labor Council featuring Miguel Cardona, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Rep. Tom Suozzi, Rep. Donald Norcross, and AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler
• Small Business Council featuring Rep. Morgan McGarvey
• Environmental and Climate Crisis Council featuring Rep. Ro Khanna and AFT President Randi Weingarten
As media coverage of the convention begins, take heed:
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Via Richard Stengel:
A word of caution to the press: a political convention is the place where more journalists are in one place in search of fewer stories than any other situation. The tendency is to blow up something small because it’s new, not because it’s important. Don’t do that. #DNC2024
Expect bullshit coverage. In addition to likely puny-matters-blown-up for the clicks, there’s a raft of crap being strewn by right-wing media outlets right now, all of which looks like so much spaghetti thrown at the wall to see what will stick. Don’t help them.
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How do HARRIS WALZ square Gaza?
Go
First, Harris-Walz will execute a combination of what Congress has legislated — you know, the executive branch executes — and what the Democratic Party’s platform will be. You can already read the platform, so Go yourself.
Second, don’t start any shit here. You’re already on my list for polluting a thread with AI crap recently. You also didn’t show up during discussions related to recent posts here about Gaza, suggesting you’re doing a drive-by shit post now.
Spaghetti thrown against the wall is what Trump does in the absence of a drinking game.
“Weird” – throw a forkful.
“COVID” – throw two forkfuls.
“Impeachment” – throw a plateful.
“E Jean Carroll” – throw two platesful.
“Stormy Daniels” – throw the whole serving bowl.
Don’t forget the Doritos scandal!
Thank goodness it’s not a drinking game! I can’t image the brain damage from that much alcohol!
The drinking game will be taking place in the kitchen at Mar-a-Lago, as the staff realize just how big a mess they will have to clean up when the boss goes to bed.
Doesn’t he move to NJ for the summer?
He did a news conference from NJ the other day.
“Wow… Former President James Taylor…”
https://youtu.be/xAlPmkgiMMc
Not to be pedantic, but the DNC is at United Center, not Union Center.
Fixed, thanks. Auto-incorrect struck again.
Although with joint remarks by six of the biggest organized labor organizations this evening, it might as well have been Union Center.
Correction: It’s Mickey Guyton. She’s a black country singer.
She’s probably one of Laura Ingraham’s favorites.
[Moderator’s note: your last two comments are without adequate context because you did not Reply To a comment. Figure this out before you comment again. /~Rayne]
Shout out to Jason Isbell, performing “Something More Than Free”:
When I get home from work
I’ll call up all my friends, and we’ll go bust up something beautiful
We’ll have to build again
When I get home from work
I’ll wrestle off my clothes, and leave ’em right inside the front door
Nobody’s home to know
You see the hammer finds a nail
And a freight train needs the rails
I guess I’m doin’ what I’m on this earth to do
I don’t think on why I’m here, where it hurts
I’m just lucky to have the work
Sunday morning, I’m too tired to go to church
But I thank God for the work
I thank God for the work
When I get my reward
My work will all be done
And I will sit back in my chair beside the father and the son
There’s no more holes to fill
And no more rocks to break
And no more loading boxes on the trucks for someone else’s sake
You see the hammer finds a nail
And the poor man’s up for sale
I guess I’m doin’ what I’m on this earth to do
I don’t think on why I’m here, where it hurts
I’m just lucky to have the work
Every night I dream I’m drowning in the dirt
But I thank God for the work
And the day will come
I’ll find a reason
Somebody proud to love a man like me
My back is numb
My hands are freezing
But what I’m working for is something more than free
I don’t think on why I’m here, where it hurts
I’m just lucky to have the work
Sunday morning, I’m too tired to go to church
But I thank God for the work
I thank God for the work
With Ms. Clinton speaking I again recall how much had to happen in 2016 for the former President to get his EC miracle.
It doesn’t appear that any of those things are going to happen. But I await Ms. Wheeler’s expert analysis of the influence operations to determine if they can occur again.
I think the poll results point to a 52%-46% victory for Harris/Walz. But the age difference is a significant factor pointing toward a greater margin of victory.