The Coronavirus Crisis that has upended our country, claimed more than 170,000 american lives, has completely transformed this campaign tradition weve all come to know. Were not coming to you from a packed Convention Hall jammed with networking politicians, that convention is canceled. That single stage is all that remains in milwaukee. The headline speakers including joe biden and Kamala Harris wont even appear there. The real nerve center, a high tech control room that will draw in video fields from all over the country. The speeches and live reaction, crowd sourced videos from delegates and every day americans. It is truly a virtual convention. But the president tom line has not changed. Conventions are about unifying parties and electing president s. As we come on the air tonight, our brand new poll shows joe biden and Kamala Harris holding a doubledigit lead over President Trump. But democrats sn s know this eln is not about the popular vote. Hillary clinton won the popular vote i
Democratic national convention. Here are lester holt and savannah guthrie. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to nbc news live coverage of the 2020 Democratic National convention. Good evening, everybody. The pandemic has forced both parties to change their convention plans in a big way. The democrats are up first and they are going all virtual tonight. And already tonight weve seen speakers share remarks from remote locations across the country, many of them in their own homes. Many of the speeches are coming in from feeds provided by the dnc either live or on tape. Right now youre seeing some of that feed. Weve seen music, weve seen stirring tributes. The sort of things we would typically see in a regular convention. Whats a convention without big speeches and well have them tonight. Senator Bernie Sanders will take the mic in just a few moments from now and the headliner of the evening, former first Lady Michelle obama, she taped her remarks before tonights event. Were also going to di
Across our state couldve lost their jobs if not for barack obama and joe biden. Obama Biden Administration inherited the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The Auto Industry on the brink of collapse, a million jobs at stake. President obama and Vice President biden did not waste time blaming anyone else or shirking their responsibility. They got to work. They brought together union on both and lawmakers sides of the aisle and they saved the Auto Industry. Wouldnt you know, just a few months ago as our nation began battling covid19, autoworkers across Michigan Spring into action. We started making protective equipment for doctors and nurses on the front lines. Let me break it down. President obama advised president president obama and Vice President biden shaved saved the autoworkers. They worked to save american lives. That is the story of this great nation, action begets action. Progress begets progress. When we work together, we can accomplish anything. Democracy is a
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Challenges our society has had trouble with in recent years this is a time that makes us wonder how strong institutions will be how we rise to a challenge like this but because at the time of testing but also think of americas strength what we are good i had as a country and to address the enormous problems. Host how did we get here . Thats a complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and quality of the individual on one hand and some strength of community on the other our society in the past halfcentury has emphasized the individual, liberty, freedom, dy that has brought some enormous advantages and benefits but there is another side to the coin that can look like fragmentation and isolation and alienation and loneliness and we have seen all that and era marked by a crises to the financial crisis to a pandemic that forces us to look to the sources of our strength and ways to drive us to the history and politics is not always good at doin