Of our lifetimes burst into a million pieces, gone. So much of what we will address this afternoon, that is exactly what happens next is still uncertain. There s one thing that s still crystal clear, even now, something we should state as fact out of the gate, and it is this. In an arena so often lacking selflessness and honor, the man who has already pulled our democracy back from the brink once is showing that he is willing to do whatever to do to do it again. Today following president joe biden s noble, albeit difficult decision to bow out of the 2024 presidential race, a party seems completely reinvigorated, confident and firing on all cylinders, transformed. Still restless, perhaps. Many upset about exactly how the last 3 1/2 weeks went down, but that party is ready, nonetheless, to unite and to fight and to win. Like a steam locomotive picking up speed, vice president kamala harris is, as we speak, effectively consolidating support ahead of the democratic national convention, whi
She is more than qualified for the job. I think she will frankly surprised people in terms of her ability to connect with americans in this moment. I think she will choose an amazing vice presidential candidate to bring the ticket together in a way that will send a unified message we all so desperately want right now. So i am kind of with tim. I think if we do open it up, i have to believe that kamala harris is by far the front runner. I think she is the one, under the circumstances, that makes the most sense to nominate for president for all the reasons i stated and many more that we will be talking about for days to come. I just want to echo claire. I think we have seen her be a remarkably powerful campaigner and such an effective prosecutor in the case against donald trump. Abortionrights, which is on the minds of millions of americans. I think there are so many interesting questions here that will be discussed in the days ahead, we will all be discussing, including approaching ball
Nose. Joe biden is vaccinated and tonight received a dose of packs loaded. In a statement the press secretary said joe biden will return to delaware where he will self isolate and continue to carry out his duties fully during that time. The white house will provide regular updates on the president status as he continues to carry out the full duties of the office while in isolation. In the hours before testing positive joe isolation. In the hours before testing positivejoe biden had been on the campaign trail in las vegas where he was inside a restaurant shaking hands and greeting voters there. Following his diagnosis and the decision to turn back to delaware and cancel events the president was seen exiting his motorcade and climbing the steps of air force one to return to his home in delaware. This comes, of course, at a perilous time for the president with his re election bid continuing to lose support from allies, close allies within his own party. On wednesday one of the most influe
Thank you for watching and on that note i wish you a very good night, from all of our colleagues and the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late, we will see you at the end of tomorrow. We are coming up on 9 pm local time. In milwaukee which will mark the start of the final hour of the first night of the republican national convention you see the crowd going mild here a lot of images of donald trump on screen over the course of the day today this is donald trump actually at the arena the first view we have had of him with the bandage on his ear. After the assassination attempt on saturday which injured him. It s good to see that he is well and able to be participating in things unaided we did see a shot of him coming down the stairs from his airplane. When he left pennsylvania and went back to new jersey after the shooting this is the first time we have seen him since and the first time we have seen the bandage on his ear. I don t think that we are expecting to hear anythin
Republican national convention in milwaukee, wisconsin. I m rachel maddow, joined here at msnbc headquarters by my colleagues joy reid and nicolle wallace and jen psaki and ari melber. We have chris hayes under a desk here somewhere. On days like this when it can be difficult to wrap your head around all of the news that will just not stop unfolding, we know you have every choice in the urld about where to watch the news tonight, so we re grateful to have you here with us. Let s start with some of the day s biggest developments. Just after 3:00 eastern this afternoon, republican nominee donald trump announced online that he had chosen ohio senator jd vance to be his vice presidential running mate. Jd vance is 39 years old, he has held political office for less than two years before which he was best known for writing his autobiography. Senator vance was famously a harsh trump critic in 2016 when trump first ran for president. Jd vance at the time, again then, famous just as an author,