Groups role in campaign 2020. Nextgen americas benjamin insel talks about his role getting the youth to support joe biden. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is the washington journal. You are looking at the Wisconsin Center in milwaukee, one ofseveral sites for this years Democratic National committee convention, which starts this night. Program would take place from there, but it can be held from other areas. Cspan willf that, be covering at 5 00 this evening. We want to hear from you about political conventions and if you think they matter in this day in age, especially in the new environment we are in. You can let us know your thoughts by calling us. For republicans, 202 7488000 free democrats four democrats, and independents 202 7488002. Us, tweet ustext cspanwj, and a post on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. The New York Times has a highlight of who you will see tonight, including minnesota senator amy klobuchar, the nevada senator and the first latina to lead a Se
Joining us, joining us, our first guest of the morning. Is joining us from joining us is Holly Otterbein, with politico, a Campaign Reporter, joining us from philadelphia. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host what would be the overall goal for the dnc . At the end of it, what do they hope to accomplish . Guest of course, joe biden right now is ahead in the polls. His main goal is to do no harm and present a message to the American People which the democrats have not really been able to do that well so far. Joe biden has often been overshadowed, sometimes part of his campaign strategy. The democrats have been glad to allow donald trump to sort of stay in the spotlight in his handling of the coronavirus to be just what is talked about most of the time on the news. But now, it is the democrats opportunity to present a vision and present that they are unified. This is something the party has worked hard at over the last few months. They did not want a repeat of the 2016 convention, where
Campaign chair. We have live coverage on cspan. A little different then usual, but we are here, our whole team. We will be here all week. Our first guest is tom perez. The leader of the Democratic Party. He is also an architect for the convention. They will be here to watch the democrats officially nominate joe biden. Due to the coronavirus pandemic the convention is virtual, mostly and it will include Vice President bidens acceptance speech. You have lined up a lot of heavy hitters in the party to keep this going online. So lets talk about it. Thanks for being here. It is a pleasure to be here. It six an exciting week. Weve heard a lot about the campaign being a referendum on president trump. But this is about your message country. What is your focus in pitching Vice President biden to the nation . Mr. Perez our messages about uniting america. Not just the united uniting the Democratic Party. With had Great Success there. This is telling everyone across america you have a seat at the
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