Hey friday morning and a new dawn and the race for the white house inside the united center on chicago s west side as kamala harris promises, a quote, new way forward. The biggest moment of her political life, the vice president s center stage, and the race to november it is on with these words i accept your nomination welcome to a special tgif edition of the cnn newsroom. I m jim acosta live at the dnc in chicago. The democrats message, singular and focused a president as they re describing it for all our nation with this election, hasn t hey precious fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive battles of the past a chance to chart a new way forward i promised to be a president for all americans you can always trust me to put party and self one of the iconic moments captured at this convention, this photo, a snapshot of one of the youngest people listening to kamala harris message. Her grandniece, that grandniece also playing a starring role on stage. Take
Election of Vice President Kamala Harris is the next president of the united states. We heard just minutes ago from former first Lady Michelle Obama. And of course then from her husband, former President Barack Obama firing up Delegates Tonight as they both spoke about the hope they believe harris is giving to voters and the fears that they have about Donald Trump potentially returning to the White House what weve seen from Kamala Harris. The steal of her spine the steadiness of her upbringing, the honesty of her example, and yes, the joy of her laugh sure. Are lights we do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos we have seen that movie before. And we all know that the sequel is usually worse the Harris Camp recruited the Vice President s husband, Doug Emhoff to give her highly personal speech about his life and his wife, and the love in strength. He says, she brings to their blended family Kamala Harris was exactly the right person for me at an important moment in m
Stagnant, Kamala Harris is polling 5 points above where Joe Biden was polling before. So these men are coalescing around Kamala Harris. They said they will vote for her. Thank you very much. Thats going to do it for me today. My apologies to deadline White House for stealing 25 seconds of their time. It starts right now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in New York. And in chicago, they are counting down to night three of the Democratic National Convention there at the united center. It gets underway in two hours. Tonights Speaker Line up is an house riches. Nancy pelosi, a slew of rising stars in the democratic water, Wes Moore and josh schapiro, pete buttigieg, and former President Bill clintOn And Vice President ial nominee Tim Walz. But there in chicago, the talk of the town is still about last night and the triumphant return of chicagos own first Lady Michelle Obama, born and raised on the South Side of chicago, and President Obama, their back to back speeches did nothing short of bringing
Its nice to the Democratic National Convention, or just a short time from now, one of The Partys most powerful leaders will take the stage. The former President Barack Obama set to make the case why . He, believes Vice President Harris and governor Tim Walz are precisely the leaders. The country needs right now. While were also learning is to speech from the former First Lady, Michelle Obama that the campaign believes could pack the biggest punch of the Night Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around world. Im Wolf Blitzer, and this is a Special Edition of the Situation Room. Were live from chicago. And im Kaitlan Collins and Wolf Tonight were also going to be hearing from someone that the Harris Campaign Tonight views as one of the most important speakers of this entire convention, her husband, second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, who is hoping to become the first gentleman november. Of course, he knows harris better than anyone in the United Center does. And sources close to t
I stopped listening after i heard the word indoors. Another Senior Adviser eyes are told me, ron and nikki made it clear it is djt Donald Trump juniors, excuse me. He donald john trumps party they needed Nikki Nikki Haley to come out here and endorse him tonight. Remember this . She only won two primaries, but she continued to get Tens Of Thousands of votes from republicans even after she it dropped out of the race, those votes, many of them in critical Battleground States like arizona, like pennsylvania, they were thrilled at the fact that she had directly dressed. Those supporters and that she told them to go vote for Donald Trump. They were thrilled at the fact that she made it a binary choice. That is something Donald Trump and his team have tried to do. That is something that Nikki Haley did tonight, and that is why they wanted her on that stage tonight. All right. Kristen holmes. Thanks so much. Lets go to Phil Mattingly now, whos getting more reaction to the Haley And Desantis .