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      Hillary Clinton urges voters to prevent Trump from 'stealing way to victory'

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      Hillary Clinton has called on Democratic voters to turn out in “overwhelming” numbers for the November election, arguing such an effort is needed to ensure Donald Trump does not “sneak or steal his way to victory”.Addressing the Democratic national convention on Wednesday from her home in Chappaquiddick, New York, Clinton said she had spoken to a number of Americans who have said they wished they had voted in the last general election, or voted differently.“For four years, people have said to me, ‘I didn’t realize how dangerous [Trump] was.’ ‘I wish I could go back and do it over.’ Or worst, ‘I should have voted,’” Clinton said. “Well, this can’t be another woulda-coulda-shoulda election.”She added: “Vote like our lives and livelihoods are on the line, because they are.”In 2016, Clinton, the first woman nominated for president by a major party, became the fifth presidential candidate to lose the US election despite winning the popular vote. In her address, she endorsed the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, and vice-presidential nominee, Kamala Harris.“Don’t forget, Joe and Kamala can win by 3 million votes and still lose. Take it from me,” Clinton warned. “We need numbers so overwhelming Trump can’t sneak or steal his way to victory.”Following a video celebrating women’s suffrage, Clinton, wearing suffragette white, said Trump had taken office “with so much set up for him,” including a pandemic response team.Clinton argued Trump could have been a more successful president “if he had put his own interests and ego aside”.“I wish Donald Trump knew how to be a president because America needs a president right now,” Clinton said.A few minutes into Wednesday’s proceedings, a fundraising email in the US president’s name contained a string of insults. “Just when I thought this pathetic event couldn’t get more CORRUPT, they decide to bring in CROOKED Hillary, Crazy Nancy, Pocahontas, Phony Kamala, and Lyin’ Obama all in ONE NIGHT,” it said.It was a list that included Trump’s favourite nickname from 2016, “Crooked” Hillary Clinton, as well as his racist tag for Senator Elizabeth Warren.Leaning into negative partisanship, the message added: “All of these Radical Democrats HATE me and they HATE YOU. They would love nothing more than to see us FAIL, which is why it’s going to take all hands on deck to make sure that never happens.”In her speech, Clinton said she knew about the “slings and arrows” that vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris will likely face as a Black woman on the ticket.“Believe me: this former district attorney and attorney general can handle them all,” she added. More

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      Kamala Harris to condemn Trump's 'chaos' and 'callousness' in DNC speech

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      Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants who has broken racial barriers at every step of her political career, is set to become the first Black woman and first Asian American to accept a major party’s vice-presidential nomination on Wednesday night.In the most consequential speech of her political career, Harris, 55, is expected to urge voters to reject the divisive and destructive leadership of a president who “turns our tragedies into political weapons”.Early excerpts show she will sketch an optimistic vision for a nation whose promise drew her parents from opposite ends of the world decades before.“We’re at an inflection point,” she will say, speaking from a waterfront convention center near Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware. “The constant chaos leaves adrift. The incompetence makes us feel afraid. The callousness makes us feel alone. It’s a lot – and here’s the thing: we can do better and deserve so much more.”At the very beginning of Wednesday’s event, Harris gave a short direct-to-camera speech about the importance of voting in November’s election. She said she knew many of the viewers may have “heard about obstacles and misinformation, and folks making it harder for you to cast your ballot.”She offered directions to viewers on how they could get more information on ways to vote in this election – a short plea underscoring Democrats’ efforts to increase turnout.Harris, only the fourth woman in history to be nominated for a presidential ticket, will share a stage on Wednesday – one hundred years and one day after the ratification of the 19th amendment that guaranteed the women – with Hillary Clinton, the first woman nominated by a major party for the presidency, and Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker and highest-ranking woman in American political history.Born in 1964 to Shyamala Gopalan, a Indian-born American breast cancer researcher, and Donald Harris, an American economist from Jamaica, Harris will recount their political activism and said some of her earliest memories of attending civil rights protests as a toddler.Harris and her sister, Maya, were raised by her mother, who she will say taught her “to walk by faith, and not by sight”.Maya, Harris’s niece Meena, and Harris’s step-daughter Ella Emhoff are expected to nominate Harris on Wednesday night.After graduating from Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington, DC, Harris pursued a career in criminal justice. In 2003, she was elected district attorney of San Francisco and the attorney general of California before becoming only the second Black woman to serve in the Senate.It is this chapter of her career that Harris struggled to reconcile during her own presidential campaign, when confronted by progressives over her record as a prosecutor.But on Wednesday, the Democrats mostly celebrated her historic ascensions. Harris’s presence on stage Wednesday was not preordained.During the first Democratic primary debate last year, Harris confronted Biden over his past opposition to school bussing policies and his working relationship with segregationist senators. The attack wounded Biden, who had centered his campaign around the promise to restore the soul of the nation.After her own presidential campaign fizzled and she dropped out of the race late year, Harris returned to the Senate, where she found her voice in the midst of nationwide protests over racial injustice. She joined protesters on the street and delivered a deeply personal speech on the Senate floor about being Black in America. She sponsored police reform legislation and championed a bill to make lynching a federal crime.Harris’s speech caps the third night of the Democrats’ national convention, which moved almost entirely online due to the coronavirus pandemic. Other speakers include Clinton and Barack Obama, who is expected to warn that Donald Trump poses a threat to American democracy. More

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      Democratic national convention day three: Barack Obama & Kamala Harris lead speeches – watch live

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      Democrats stage the third night of their online convention after formally nominating Joe Biden as the presidential candidate for November’s election. The main speakers on Wednesday include Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi
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      Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses NBC of spreading misinformation after DNC speech

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      Congresswoman says NBC tweet about her endorsement of Bernie Sanders ‘sparked an enormous amount of hatred’

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      Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez praises Bernie Sanders in DNC speech – video

      Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused NBC News of spreading an “incredible amount of damage and misinformation” overnight on Tuesday after the network construed a routine procedural speech by her as a snub of the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden.
      Speaking on the second night of the Democratic national convention (DNC), Ocasio-Cortez was assigned to second the nomination of Senator Bernie Sanders as president. Sanders ended his presidential bid and endorsed Biden last spring, but he was in line for a formal nomination as part of the process of transferring his delegates to Biden.
      Ocasio-Cortez had originally endorsed Sanders for president during the primary season before switching her support to Biden.
      “In a time when millions of people in the United States are looking for deep systemic solutions to our crises of mass evictions, unemployment and lack of healthcare,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a short speech on Tuesday, “en ​espíritu del pueblo​ and out of a love for all people, I hereby second the nomination of Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont for president of the United States of America.”
      Soon after, NBC News sent a tweet that seemed to impute some intrigue to the fact that Ocasio-Cortez had not endorsed Biden for president. Such endorsements are not typically conferred in the convention setting and there was no reason or expectation for Ocasio-Cortez to do so.
      But an NBC News account tweeted: “In one of the shortest speeches of the DNC, Rep Ocasio-Cortez did not endorse Joe Biden: ‘I hereby second the nomination of Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont for president of the United States of America.’”
      Hours later, the tweet was deleted and an editor’s note was appended reading, “This tweet should have included more detail on the nominating process.”
      But Ocasio-Cortez and others were dissatisfied, accusing the news outlet of stoking false controversy at a time when the Democratic party faces a generational divide between leaders like Ocasio-Cortez, a 30-year-old progressive, and Biden, a 77-year-old who won his first Senate race 17 years before she was born.
      Ocasio-Cortez tweeted three times at NBC, starting after midnight:

      Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
      (@AOC)
      You waited several hours to correct your obvious and blatantly misleading tweet.It sparked an enormous amount of hatred and vitriol, & now the misinfo you created is circulating on other networks.All to generate hate-clicks from a pre-recorded, routine procedural motion. https://t.co/crDlEymgMD

      August 19, 2020

      Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
      (@AOC)
      This is completely unacceptable, disappointing, and appalling.The DNC shared the procedural purpose of my remarks to media WELL in advance. @NBC knew what was going to happen & that it was routine.How does a headline that malicious & misleading happen w/ that prior knowledge?

      August 19, 2020

      Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
      (@AOC)
      So @NBCNews how are you going to fix the incredible amount of damage and misinformation that you are now responsible for?Because a 1:15am tweet to slip under the radar after blowing up a totally false and divisive narrative across networks isn’t it. https://t.co/zf6Wqiotvv

      August 19, 2020

      As of this writing NBC News had not released further comment.
      Sanders was also nominated for president at the 2016 Democratic national convention, before his delegates were passed to Hillary Clinton. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard nominated Sanders, and the nomination was seconded by a state campaign director and a spokeswoman for an election watchdog group.

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      Emotional stories and a virtual roll call backing Biden: day two at the DNC – video highlights

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      Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden for president during an emotional second night of their party’s virtual convention, warning that Donald Trump was an ‘existential threat’ to America who had failed to get a grip on the coronavirus pandemic. Here are the key moments from the evening
      Jill Biden closes second night as Joe formally secures nomination – as it happened
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