Then, naacp president and ceo Derrick Johnson on black voters and the important issues in campaign 2020. Washington journal is next. I am pleased to announce that Vice President joe biden has officially been nominated by the Democratic Party as our candidate for president of the United States. Vice President Biden is hereby invited to deliver an acceptance speech. Thank you very, very much, from the bottom of my heart. It means the world to me and my family, and i will see you on thursday. That took place after a first ever virtual rollcall vote officiallyn is selected as the nominee for the Democratic Party. Just some of the activities on night two of the Democratic National convention. Watch our coverage of night three starting at 9 00 tonight on cspan, cspan. Org, and follow along on our cspan radio app. In the first hour bang, you can give us your impressions of the activities. In the first hour, you can give us your impressions of the activities. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. If you support President Trump, 202 7488001. If you are undecided, 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003. Gaveltogavel is uninterrupted and here is some of the speakers you will see, senator Elizabeth Warren from massachusetts, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the candidate from last election, former president barack obama, and you will hear the acceptance speech of the Vice President pick, senator Kamala Harris, democrat of california. You can watch on cspan and cspan. Org to follow along. Some of the responses of last , sheilavent on Facebook Hayes saying it would be nice to know their agenda. We already know they hate trump. It is like watching a telephone. Alll said she loved it and did not expect to. Saying whyook did they bring bill clinton to make an appearance . Morninge a piece this taking a look at some of the highlights from yesterday, talking specifically about the former president , saying he has spoken at 11 Democratic National conventions but has never had a tighter grasp on the party. Given how his sexual dalliances , a notoriously prolix president whose 2012 speech for barack obama ran nearly 50 minutes, was kept to five minutes during the tight, all online convention, and he wasted no time scorching the man who defeated his wife. With the covid19 outbreak on a path to killing millions of , how do donald trump respond . He said the virus was under control and would disappear. Tvn it didnt, he was on every day bragging on what a great job he was doing while science was waiting to give us final information. When he didnt like the expert advice he was given, he ignored it. Only when covid exploded did he encourage people to wear masks but then, many more were dying. When asked about the surge in deaths, he shrugged and said, it is what it is. Did it have to be this way . No. Covid hit us much harder than it had to. We have just 4 of the worlds population but 25 of the covid cases. Our Unemployment Rate is 2. 5 times the United Kingdom and more than three times japan. Donald trump says we are leading the world. We are the only Major Industrial economy to have its Unemployment Rate triple. The oval office should be a command center. Instead, it is a storm center with only chaos. One thing never changes, his determination to deny responsibility and shift the blame. Bucbook never stops never stops therek. You have to decide whether to renew his contract or hire someone else. If you want a president who spends hours watching tv zapping people on social media, he is your man. It works great if you are trying to entertain, but in a real crisis it collapses like a house of cards. Covid does not respond to any of that. To beat it, you have got to go to work and deal with the facts. Our party is united in offering a very different choice, a down to earth, get the job gun takeguy, ready to responsibility and not blame. Our choice is joe biden host just a portion from last night. You can see the whole speech on cspan. Org. If you support joe biden. 202 7488001 if you support President Trump. If you are undecided, 202 7488002. In connecticut, a supporter of President Trump, you are first up. Caller good morning. I thought it was a lot better than the first night. It was well done. I like joe biden, i just dont like the people around him. I dont like all the revisionist thinking, trump was in denial. Yes, he does say a lot of stupid stuff. He shoots himself in the foot a lot and makes things worse. I do agree with all that, but to say he was in denial when he was one of the first ones to do it, we are forgetting what happens or want to forget what really happened. We are forgetting the hospitals he set up in new york, unused beds. There is a lot of blame to go around. An act of god is beyond our control with this virus. We cant control everything as much as we would like to think we can. Butally hate to blame, there is a lot of blame to go around with this pandemic. Host cindy in connecticut. Mike in South Carolina, supporter of joe biden. Caller i am a supporter of the Democratic Party and since he is our candidate, i am a supporter of joe biden. I am more in support of the , and this isnge the way we get a change. We need somebody who understands what it means to be a leader of this country. Currying favor with the chosen few. It isnt a lot of the divisiveness that he seeks with his words. It is someone who understands they represent all of us, regardless of our Political Party affiliation, and that is what he works for. You aif i may ask, were supporter of joe biden early on . Caller i did support someone because sheobuchar, is one who would bring people together definitely. When the choice came down to joe biden, i know what joe biden has done in the past. Some things i agree with, some things i dont, but i think he is the one he does understand what a leaders role is, and i think he can fit in that role. Host what did you make of his Vice President ial choice . In a strongs supporter of Kamala Harris. Wasnt have preferred i would have preferred val demings, maybe Amy Klobuchar. I understand why he selected her and i think the two of them will do a job. They will bring the change we need. Alabaster, in alabama, supporter of President Trump. Caller how are you . Host i am well. Thanks for asking. Caller i didnt watch all of it , i watched a good portion of it, and i still have not heard their agenda even though we heard little snippets of it from Bernie Sanders. I am sure joe biden is a very likable guy, but what they are going to do is they are going to have the government take over all the jails, all of our health care. The government is going to take care of everything, free school tuition. It is not free, though. Itthe taxpayers will pay for , and how will they do that . They will increase our taxes . Go check it out. Most people pay 70 of their income for taxes for all of that typicallyf democrats that stuff. Free stuff. Promise atypically lot. The did you look at agenda . Caller i have not read it, but i have heard snippets from Bernie Sanders. Host the dnc platform at the website for the Democratic National convention, there is the draft of it, laying out policy positions as the party stands. From milwaukee, wisconsin, yvonne, supporter of joe biden from the city hosting at least one of the hosts of the convention. Caller i am calling to say i have enjoyed the convention so far, and i cant wait for tomorrow, and i cannot wait for thursday. , am along with bill Clinton Donald trump does not want to accept responsibility for the things that he is responsible for. He is responsible for the coronavirus. He is responsible for 25 of people being out of work. He is responsible for the schools open and closing. He is responsible for hundreds of cars having to stand in lines to get bags of food to feed their families. He is responsible for children three end up wearing a mask. Three and up wearing a mask. Guess what . If you end up getting the virus, you will not have to worry about taxes or kids or gas because you will be dead. Host when candidate biden talks , talking about a mask policy for the United States, is that something you would go along with . Caller i would go along with it. It is what we need to do to get rid of this virus, but the virus is out of control and it is to the point where if donald trump gets in another four years, we will be Wearing Masks for another four years. Host the work on the vaccine is already starting. In leonard towne, maryland, and undecided voter leonard an undecidedd, voter. Caller people need to get more involved because here we are making a decision. We have all got opinions, all of these people who have never been involved in politics before because of all of the devices in this and their families lives on the line, everyone is a politician. You cannot watch one channel. You have to watch all the channels. I listened to Hillary Clinton the other day, and i love Hillary Clinton and i love misses trump and all of them because they are trying to, you would assume protect our country and way of life. Ms. Clinton said we needs to get our country back in order, it is crazy, other countries are not listening to each other. Then i listen to mr. Trump. He is saying his things too. For me, it is really tough. It is the twoparty system out of control. Joe biden 40 years in d. C. , trump 40 years in new york. The last thing i would say, right in candidate for me. I think it is a great choice, the real joe. Host why him over others . Www. Usa. All a i have a mother who died in a nursing home due to abuse. It is serious. We need a change. Esther biden, stepped out of the way, sir. Mr. Biden, step out of the way, sir. Host ken, a supporter of joe biden. Caller i support joe biden because he loves his country and it comes from his heart. He is not a rich businessman. He supports his country. Donald trump is a draft dodger from the vietnam war and being drafted into it and his four deferments. I cannot see how any veteran would support this man. A lot of his people have been indicted and it is just going to get worse. This coronavirus, we have to get a handle on it. Host as far as joe biden is concerned, does he have military history . Caller i am not sure about joe biden. Host if he did, would that matter, considering what you said about the president . Caller no. I dont know if joe biden was in the military. I just know when he speaks about the country, it comes from the heart. Host lisa also a supporter of joe biden. Seeer i was so happy to them focus so well on Foreign Policy, one of my numberone issues. Y thee he rehires kerr to renegotiate the iranian deal because they enrichingg uranium hand over foot. Ourlieve we need to repair relationship with nato allies. I just think that joe biden, and we need to get on track again. Host when it comes to Foreign Affairs and that topic, it was john kerry speaking last night as one of the speakers, but the analysis from the New York Times offers this mr. Biden has offered few policy plans on how to tackle this changed world. The Virtual Convention came down to this, trust the man who ran the committee to take out Osama Bin Laden and iranian centrifuges with a nuclear strike, and would arrive at the white house with an experienced team. Supporters, and his that is mr. Bidens vulnerability. Coddlinguing , heartening the russians, and cutting deals for his friends. Caller President Trump is the best president in history for the jewish people. The democrats hate the jewish people. The new democrat host thats a broad brush. Ander i am a jewish guy she is an antisemite and she wins 90 . Democrats, hethe also hates jews. The second thing, because the democrats hate god and i love god. In 40 years, they hate god. The Democratic Party needs to hate god. Host another broad brush you are applying, but lets hear from one of the speakers last night, former secretary of state colin powell. [video clip] ago, a jamaican immigrant left a dirt farm and set out for america. A ship pulled into the american harbor and a young jamaican woman gazed at the statue of liberty for the first time. They became my parents. This began a journey of service to take me from basic training through combat in vietnam to chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and secretary of state. The values i learned in the bronx and serving in uniform are the same values that joe bidens parents instilled in him in scranton, pennsylvania. I support joe biden because those values still define him and we need to restore those values to the white house. Our country needs a commander in chief who takes care of our troops in the same way he would his own family. With joe biden, that does not need teaching. It comes with the experience he has with millions of military families, sending his beloved son off to war and praying he would come home safe. Joe biden will be a president we will all be proud to salute. You will never doubt he will stand with our friends and up to our adversaries, never the other way around. He will trust our diplomats, not the flattery of dictators and desperates. When anyone dares to threaten us, he will stand up to our adversaries with strength and experience and they will know he means business. I support joe biden because beginning on day one, he will restore americas leadership and moral authority. He will be a president who knows that americas strongest when is to lead byin example. He knows the alliances we need to address the threats to our nation from Climate Change to nuclear proliferation. Nancy hollings says when it comes to the format of the current dnc convention, doesnt like it, and she will support President Trump. From facebook saying he is saddened by the way the dnc is going. As a democrat, i am saddened to say this is another four more years of trump. Therom panama city democrats have done a fantastic job rolling out the convention on tv. I have never been prouder to be a democrat, an allinclusive party. What youll see next week will be of white faces. Thats the Republican Party. Americaer, it showcased that america is more than patriotic evangelicals. Wj, facebook. Com cspan, and you can text us by including your name, city, and state to 202 7488003. Kathy in carlisle, pennsylvania, undecided. Caller when i look at the issue of as far as who to vote for, when i look at biden, i dont want to just vote for biden simply because i dont like trump. I am not going to go that way. I would choose the individual. I tell myself biden has been in for years, so i go back and look at has passed and see things like the crime bills and stuff like that. I take that into consideration. I am concerned about his health because if something happens, Kamala Harris may be the president. We still havent answered the questions about what happened in it may have some kind of connection with his son but he hasnt answered that. See that he is covering some i saw him support he has covered some of the opportunities for the inner cities. He did the Prison Reform and he supports prolife, and i am not a supporter of abortion. He doesnt carry a lot of the issues i stand for. Host that is kathy in pennsylvania. To those issues she listed, if you stay and watch our program in the 9 00 hour, two guests will address those issues, stephanie schriock, that group recruiting prochoice female candidates, and Derrick Johnson theur last halfhour, of naacp, president and ceo. Carol from iowa city, iowa, supporter of joe biden. Caller hello. I definitely support joe. My gosh, we are in the midst of a disaster in iowa. People dont have lights, power, food, places to live. The president stopped in cedar rapids, iowa yesterday and hung gar of the airport talking to the governors and mayors of some of the cities in iowa that have had devastation. He never set foot to talk to the people to see how they were handling the situation, or getting your power back, or trying to get the National Guard into some of these towns. A week later, a week later they show up. Nobody declared any kind of disaster until seven days after it happened, and people are still without food and water. I think its a disgrace. He has no caring for any of the people unless he is campaigning, which is what he was doing yesterday, but he stayed only long enough to go to arizona and campaigned there, the states that he needs. I hope the people of iowa will wake up and vote for joe biden, because joe would have been here the next day to see how his people are doing. Host james in tennessee, supporter of joe biden. Caller good morning. You are the only program. Would like to have biden first of all, this is the anniversary of the womens to see womennd after 100 years finally get support, biden can pull america back together. That, if they stop pointing fingers at each other and Work Together host how do you think he will do that . Trying by each of them what is right for america. America needs to act with strong leadership, and right now we have a pre