High profile members of congress, like representative alexandria ocasio cortez. Hillary clinton, former secretary of state and the party s nominee for president in 2016, who lost to donald trump, will speak as well. Drjill biden, the first lady will be part of tonight s tribute to the president. And thenjoe biden himself will be the night s final speaker. It s likely not the convention he expected as he will be passing the baton to kamala harris. While the party overall is united behind kamala harris, there are still divisions among democrats when it comes to the war in gaza. These are pictures from a protest earlier today a few blocks from where we are at the united center. Organisers had promised a turnout of many thousands in the end it was far fewer. Things have been mostly orderly, but a small group of protesters did temporarily breach a security fence, as you can see here. Local media are reporting that several arrests have been made. Many demonstrators oppose president biden s b
Over the ticket, Donald Trump has had more and more reason to be nervous. Averages compiled by Elections Expert Nate silver show that since biden dropped out, down four points, two ahead of trump by two. Up six points among registered voters, that is beyond the margin of error. Among likely voters, harris is up by nine points. That could be an anomaly but it is pointing out that things are changing and polling is not the only thing looking good for Kamala Harris. Her fundraising is off the charts, her Crowd Sizes are massive and people are volunteering to work for her campaign in droves. She has enthusiasm on her side right now, she has momentum. The Washington Post reports in the case of harris new momentum, trump has, quote, grown increasingly upset about harris increasing numbers in Media Coverage since replacing biden on the ticket,. Trump is complaining relentlessly and asking friends about how his campaign is performing, end quote. Donald trump invited members of the press for a
It is always my pleasure, my friend. The viewers dont always love It but i try to hold It together. Your team does an excellent job and It is always a pleasure. Im one of those beers and i love It. All of the rest of them do too. I love It. Donald trump announced today he is flipflopping on the abc debate, which he agreed to and said, i cant possibly debate on abc because im suing George Stephanopoulos and he flipflopped today, i would debate Kamala Harris on abc. Typical Donald Trump and no comment from the reporters who were allowed to throw questions at him today about how could you possibly flipflopped like that . All the Cable News carried It life like they did 2016, It would be hard to find a sentence wIth what Donald Trump said today that did not include one lie, some of the networks try to play catchup wIth Fact Checking after Donald Trump finished speaking, that of course is way too late and utterly useless. , attempted to fact check every light Donald Trump told, every networ
Thank you so much for letting us into your homes during this extraordinary times. We are grateful. The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Hi, ari. Hi, nicolle. Welcome to The Beat. Join us on this first full day of 2024 with both tickets set. Kamala harriss Running Mate Tim Walz. A very different picture than a couple weeks ago. Today democrats campaigned together in wisconsin and continue to draw larger crowds than democrats drew erlter this Year Pap time lapse were showing you of the line to get into todays event. Sometimes the crowds are larger than trump in the same arenas and trump knows the power of the visuals. Power of this many people excitedly waiting in line, going in for this kind of energy. Tell me what Democracy Look likes. All this is what Democracy Looks like tell me what Democracy Looks like. This is what Democracy Looks bike. Harris and walz hitting michigan another midwestern blue state. Traditionally most years been blue. Democrats, of course, lost it in the Tru
You see that you see them trying to lay out what the plans fans were for dealing with this Contingency Anderson and it appears all of that fell apart no jonathan wackrow, appreciate Evan Perez as well. Thanks so much. Thats it for us. The news continues right here on cnn outfront. Next, an exclusive interview with Jd Vances former Yale Law School Classmate and close Friend Sophia Nelson, who vance refers to as so sharing more than 80 emails without Trend Vans and those emails taking on trump, the police, maga voters well share them with you. Plus Kamala Harris is momentum raising record cash, doubling down on calling Trump And Vance flatout weird, thats the word theyre using. Now republicans are trying to turn the tables. Will it work . And kim Jong Uns tonight preparing his daughter, his young daughter, to take over the country this daughter is not even teenager yet and it comes as new details emerge about just how poor kims health is lets go outfront and good evening. Im Erin Burnett