Vice President Kamala Harris, who entered the race after President Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy in July, is assured of being nominated at the Democratic convention, which begins Monday and which she will conclude with a speech on Thursday.
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The Democratic Convention begins Monday, August 19 in Chicago, Illinois. A four-day event to officially designate – this will take place Thursday evening – Kamala Harris as the party’s candidate for the November presidential election. The schedule of speakers during this great political mass is rather dense.
The first evening on Monday will be held on the theme of “For the People”. The American president is obviously the most anticipated. Joe Biden will come to speak after his wife Jill Biden and in the wake of another figure of the party, Hillary Clinton, beaten by Donald Trump in 2016. Tuesday, the day is called “a bold vision for the future of America” with the former president of the United States Barack Obama. The local of the stage, former senator of Illinois, began his political career in Chicago. His wife Michelle Obama, must also speak before him. Wednesday, it will be the day of Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ running mate, around the slogan: “A fight for our freedoms”. And to finish Thursday, the vice president will officially accept to become the candidate of the Democratic Party for the election of November 5.
Since taking over from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris has been doing better than the president in the polls. In just one month, the polls have almost all swung in favor of the vice president, both nationally and in most of the six or seven key states. The gap with Donald Trump is sometimes within the margin of error, but there is clearly a Kamala Harris effect, a bit like there was enthusiasm and euphoria in 2008 around Barack Obama.
Moreover, the city of Chicago has seen posters of the artist appear Shepard Fairey who created Barack Obama’s iconic campaign design in blue and red at the time, with the word “hope” [“espoir”]. Shepard Fairey released an image of Kamala Harris looking up at the sky in a similar vein, but this time with the word “forward.” [“en avant”]. Obviously, the press and the public are making a lot of parallels between Barack Obama, who was a social worker in the suburbs of Chicago before becoming a senator, and Kamal Harris, who could therefore become the first black woman president of the United States.
