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STARDUST PERFORMANCE. Former US President Barack Obama arrives to speak on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, Tuesday . Vice President Kamala Harris will formally accept the party’s nomination for president at the DNC which runs from Aug. 19-22 in Chicago.
“Yes she can,” Obama said of Harris, prompting the boisterous crowd to repeatedly chant the phrase, recalling Obama’s own “Yes we can” campaign slogan. “In 2012 I got to vote for him, and everyone was pushing Michelle Obama to run for president, but now we have Kamala. So I just think that this is, in a sense, them passing on the torch,” said attendee Tomara Hall, 35, from California.
Comparisons are already being made by Democratic faithful to Obama’s historic 2008 campaign, where a tidal wave of enthusiasm carried him to the White House. For the duration of the four-day convention, the Bulls practice venue has been converted into a press center, with journalists typing away while surrounded by fitness equipment and hoops.
The choice of the 18,000-seat arena will rile Trump, who has been rattled that 59-year-old Harris, unlike Biden, is able to draw the kinds of crowds the Republican has long attracted to his events.Trying to pry media attention away from the Democratic convention, Trump is holding events all week and on Tuesday spoke about what he says is Harris’s “anti-police” stance.
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