One. Thank you so much for joining us this sunday. I m fredricka whitfield in atlanta and i m jim sciutto in tel aviv, secretary of state anthony blinken is now on the ground here in israel where he will meet with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and other senior israeli officials tomorrow. I ll have more on that and the progress of talks on a ceasefire coming up, right way before to that, jim, let s begin with a pretty busy week on the presidential campaign trail. And a little less than 17 hours from now, the democratic national convention opens at the united center in chicago, where delegates will celebrate their nominee, vice president kamala harris, and her vision for the future. She comes into this pivotal so week riding high new national polls out today show harris taking the lead over republican donald trump for the very first time since she announced her candidacy less than a month ago, hoping to build off that momentum today, harris and her running mate, governor
Portion of that money all when he d 808 59, 2,400. That s when 808, 59, 2,400 hello again. Everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. I m fredricka whitfield in atlanta alongside my colleague jim sciutto in tel aviv. We ll get to you in a moment jim but first right now, vice president kamala harris is on the campaign trail in pennsylvania. The democratic presidential nominee is taking a bus tour in the key battleground state of pennsylvania. There they re west, the western part of the state. And this really is the first time these candidates, kamala harris and her running mate tim walz some their spouses are appearing to gather on this bus tour here in pennsylvania. She by the way, is riding a wave of momentum new national polls out today shows harris taking the lead over republican donald trump for the very first time since she announced her candidacy, just a month ago. Tonight, harris will be heading to chicago, where the democratic national convention begins tomorrow. It will featu
Jim sciutto in tel aviv, secretary of state anthony blinken is now here. Here in israel where he will meet with the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu tomorrow. Hamas though throwing cold water on the latest ceasefire offer, i ll have more on that coming up all right, jim, we ll get back with you momentarily right now. It is the eve of the democratic national convention and final preparations are underway as delegates are set to send on the united center in chicago tomorrow there they will celebrate their nominee, vice president kamala harris, as she builds momentum in this tight presidential race, a new abc news washington post, ipsos poll out today has harris taking the lead outside of the margin of error over republican donald trump? it s the first time a major poll has harris leading since she announced her candidacy last month? and we just heard from the vice president a short time ago you saw it live here on this program. She s spending the day on the campaign trail in pe
Ascension to the top of the ticket, making this a dramatically different convention from what we were all anticipating, just even a month ago. Let s take a look at this week s scheduled opening night will now feature the man many thought would be accepting the nomination on thursday, president joe biden, former president barack obama, headlining tuesday night on wednesday, we ll see governor tim walz deliberate vice presidential acceptance speech. All building took thursday night when harris will accept the democratic nomination for president. A party that was struggling to gain any momentum will be going into this convention with a wind at their backs, the new washington post, abc news, ipsos poll out this morning showing harris up four points and ahead head matchup with donald trump that is outside the margin of error or cnn s jeff zeleny is joining us now and jeff are looking at live pictures of the vice president with her husband, tim walz false and his wife. They are in pennsylvan
You are in the cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. I m jessica dean in the cargo with cnn special coverage of the democratic national convention and the stage is set you re in chicago where less than 24 hours away from the opening? the 2024 democratic national convention vice president kamala harris is ascension to the top of the ticket, making this a dramatically different events from what we were expecting. Just a month ago. So let s take a look at this week s scheduled opening night will feature the man many thought would be accepting this nomination. President joe biden former president in the brock obama, headlining tuesday night on wednesday, governor tim walz delivering his vice presidential acceptance speech. And it s all building up to thursday night when vice president kamala harris will accept the democratic nomination for president. A party that was struggling to gain any momentum will be going into this convention week with the wind at their backs, we have new polling from washing