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Democratic convention live: Obama, Biden and mass shooting survivors to speak Democratic convention live: Biden says Trump 'has no clue what makes America great'
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2.28am BST
02:28
Biden: 'Come on. We're America'
Biden is hot now. “Americans have never ever ever let this country down,” he says, by electing someone who sows fear.
We do not scare easily. We never bow, we never bend,... no, we endure, we overcome, and we always move forward.
He says he has “absolute conviction” that the 21st century is going to be the American century.
“We are America. Second to none. And we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.
‘Protect our troops. Come on. We’re America.”
Biden steps away from the lectern as every hand in the hall, it seems, flies up with its Joe sign, and Biden might as well pump his fist, for how well that went, although he does not.
Jill Biden comes out to retrieve him. They make a tour of the stage. Biden stops to blow the crowd a kiss. And there he goes, he’s out.
Bet that moment looked good on TV.
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02:24
Biden says that the country had never considered a candidate with so little knowledge as Trump, who stokes fear and “has no plan whatsoever to make us safer.”
Biden says Trump “seeks to sow division in America for his own gain.”
“We simply cannot let that happen as Americans. Period.”
Meanwhile, the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs captured this footage today in Biden’s hometown of Scranton:
Chants of "lock her up" in Scranton pic.twitter.com/mX135Sdg66
2.22am BST
02:22
Biden: notion of Trump middle-class sympathy 'malarkey'
Biden attacks Trump:
His cynicism is unbounded. His lack of empathy and compassion can be summed up in the phrase he made famous: you’re fired.
Think about that. Think about that. ... How can there be pleasure..?
He’s trying to tell us he cares about the middle class/ Give me a break. That’s a bunch of malarkey!
That sets off an immense cheer.
Biden:
Whatever he thinks, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart.. I know why we’re strong.. why we are united.. it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class. This guy doesn’t have a clue about the middle class. Not a clue.
“He has no clue about what makes America great. Actually he has no clue, period.
The crowd chants:
Not a clue!
Not a clue!
2.19am BST
02:19
Biden has the crowd in thralls. “If you live in the neighborhoods like the one Jill and I grew up in... then there’s only person in this election who will help you... who’s always been there for you.
“And that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story! She always there. And so is Tim Kaine.”
The sun shines on Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/0t9m76TPy7
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He says thanks. Eight years ago, he says, he was onstage in Denver to accept the veep nomination.
“And every single day since then has been the honor of our lives for Jill and me. Every day we’ve been grateful to Barack and Michelle.”
“We’ve become friends,” Biden says of the Obamas. “We’re now family. Folks, you’ve all seen... what president Obama means to this country. he is the embodiment of honor, resolve and character. One of the finest presidents we have ever had.”
Big applause.
And Michelle? I don’t know where you are, kid. But you’re incredible. I was talking to Barack today. It’s no longer who can give the best speech. We already know who did that.
As they say in Delaware, Barack and I married way up. Way up.
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02:09
Biden comes out to the Rocky thing. Good times. Everybody now has red Joe signs. The veep paces the staged like an uncaged tiger (whatever). He walks the length of the stage to say Hi to everyone.
The crowd – the whooole crowd – chants Joe! Joe! Joe!
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02:08
It’s a truly effusive Biden tribute video.
This Biden guy would have been a good 2016 presidential candidate!
Some of Joe Biden's biggest accomplishments as vice president have been saying things we all knew to be true anyway.
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02:02
Now here’s Dr Jill Biden, introducing her husband.
Who is then introduced by a tribute video.
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Now the chant becomes USA! USA! USA!
They’ve turned the lights down on the section where most of the chanting was coming from – but the delegates, some of them, have turned on their phone flashlights.
Panetta leaves and they turn the lights back on. That was Washington state and Oregon, mostly, it appears.
DNC shuts off lights over Bernie protestors chanting "no more war" during former defence secretary Panetta's speech. pic.twitter.com/hHRHMGDYdX
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01:56
Panetta interrupted by chant: 'No more war!'
Here’s Leon Panetta, the former defense secretary and CIA director:
In this election, there is only one candidate for president who has the experience, temperament and judgment to be commander-in-chief, and that is Hillary Clinton.
Panetta credits Clinton with supporting the decision to go after Osama bin Laden. “Hillary was clear: we have to go after Bin Laden.”
That’s applauded.
Panetta says Clinton is determined to defeat “Isis al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, terrorists who pervert the teachings of Islam to kill innocent people.”
“Meanwhile, Donald Trump says he gets his foreign policy experience from watching TV and running the Miss Universe pageant. If only it were funny. It is deadly serious. Donald Trump asks our troops to commit war crimes, endorses torture, spurns allies from Europe to Asia, suggests more countries to have nuclear weapons, and praises dictators from Saddam Hussein to Vladimir Putin.”
Panetta refers to Trump’s call for a Russian hack on Clinton.
Panetta is interrupted by a chant:
No more war!
No more war!
He pauses and smiles.
There’s general noise and confusion.
Then Panetta continues, saying Trump “took Russia’s side.” The line is booed.
“Think about that for a moment. Donald Trump, who wants to be president of the United States, is asking one of our adversaries to engage in hacking or intelligence efforts against the United States to affect our election.”
Panetta calls it irresponsible.
The No MOreWar! chant continues, but it’s temporarily drowned out when Panetta says, “Donald Trump cannot become commander-in-chief.”
“We cannot put an erratic finger on our nuclear weapons,” he says. “This is no time to roll the dice and gamble.”
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Here’s the lineup of speakers on deck:Here’s the lineup of speakers on deck:
RemarksKristen KavanaughRemarksKristen Kavanaugh
Kristen Kavanaugh is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former Marine Corps Captain who deployed to Iraq. She later co-founded the Military Acceptance Project, a California-based social justice organization dedicated to promoting acceptance of marginalized populations within the military.Kristen Kavanaugh is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former Marine Corps Captain who deployed to Iraq. She later co-founded the Military Acceptance Project, a California-based social justice organization dedicated to promoting acceptance of marginalized populations within the military.
RemarksFormer Congressman and Secretary of Defense Leon PanettaRemarksFormer Congressman and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
RemarksU.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (Ohio)RemarksU.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (Ohio)
Introduction of SpeakerDr. Jill BidenIntroduction of SpeakerDr. Jill Biden
RemarksVice President Joe BidenRemarksVice President Joe Biden
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Hutson s interrupted – is that the California delegation? – it’s a chant.Hutson s interrupted – is that the California delegation? – it’s a chant.
“I can’t hear what they’re saying,” Hutson says.“I can’t hear what they’re saying,” Hutson says.
We can’t either, they’re on the other side of this big arena.We can’t either, they’re on the other side of this big arena.
He goes back to his speech, which now concludes:He goes back to his speech, which now concludes:
“When you’re a citizen you have the responsibility to choose the commander-in-chief who will keep us safe, strong and secure. Choose Hillary.”“When you’re a citizen you have the responsibility to choose the commander-in-chief who will keep us safe, strong and secure. Choose Hillary.”
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And now the 2016 Democratic convention is applauding the 2008 Republican nominee. Hutson on Trump:And now the 2016 Democratic convention is applauding the 2008 Republican nominee. Hutson on Trump:
He even mocks our POWs, like John McCain. I served in the same navy as John McCain. I used to vote in the same party as John McCain. Donald, you’re not fit to polish John McCain’s boots!He even mocks our POWs, like John McCain. I served in the same navy as John McCain. I used to vote in the same party as John McCain. Donald, you’re not fit to polish John McCain’s boots!
They like the line.They like the line.
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Next up is retired Admiral John Hutson. “Unlike Donald Trump there are two things I know an awful lot about: law and order,” he begins. He was 30 years in the navy and a judge advocate general.
“Donald Trump calls himself the ‘law and order candidate’ but he’ll violate international law... this morning, this very morning, he personally invited Russia to hack us! That’s not law and order. That’s criminal intent.”
Hutson isn’t an electrifying speaker, but he enjoys a crowd deeply sympathetic to the argument he’s making:
The real disaster is what would happen if we let Donald Trump become the face of the country we love.
1.33am BST
01:33
Now they’re screening a video titled Solemn Responsibility, featuring a great number of national security figures, from right and left, saying Trump is not fit to be commander in chief and definitely not to have the nuclear codes. Here’s the video:
Who would have predicted four years ago that a video clip of Mitt Romney would air at the DNC as a validation against the R nominee?
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Onstage is unfolding an extraordinary musical number. A tremendous line of recording artists doing a rendition of What the World Needs Now Is Love – lyrics by Hal David, composed by Burt Bacharach.
The crowd is overwhelmed with the vibe. When they wrap, the cheer exceeds any yet on the night – maybe the whole convention. Long lines of delegates were clasping raised hands and swaying.
Now they chant:
Love trumps hate!
Love trumps hate!
Love trumps hate!
1.26am BST
01:26
NRA releases new ad attacking Clinton
Lois Beckett
As survivors and family members of victims from four different mass shootings speak in support of Hillary Clinton tonight, the National Rifle Association is preparing to release a new Clinton attack ad claiming that “you right to own a gun for self-defense is at risk in this election.”
The ad features Kimberly Corban, a rape survivor and gun rights advocate.
“The thought of owning a handgun terrified me, until one morning, a stranger broke into my apartment, and raped me. He had evil in his eyes, and I was helpless,” Corban says in the ad.
“My fear of firearms disappeared when I got my second chance at life.”
“Self defense is your right. Don’t let it be taken away,” Corban says.
The NRA ad will air starting on Thursday on national cable, and will also run digitally in battleground states.
Corban was one of the gun rights advocates who questioned the president during Obama’s CNN town hall on guns in January.
“As a survivor of rape, and now a mother to two small children -- you know, it seems like being able to purchase a firearm of my choosing, and being able to carry that wherever my -- me and my family are -- it seems like my basic responsibility as a parent at this point,” she told Obama.
“Why can’t your administration see that these restrictions that you’re putting to make it harder for me to own a gun, or harder for me to take that where I need to be is actually just making my kids and I less safe?”
“Well, Kimberly, first of all, obviously -- you know, your story is horrific. The strength you’ve shown in telling your story and, you know, being here tonight is remarkable, and so -- really proud of you for that,” Obama responded.
“I just want to repeat that there’s nothing that we’ve proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.”
1.23am BST
01:23
More Giffords:
In Congress I learned a powerful weapon. Strong women get things done....
In the White House she will stand up to the gun lobby. That’s why I’m voting for Hilary.
Speaking is difficult for me. But come January, I want to say these two words: Madam president.
Thank you very much.
The crowd can’t clap enthusiastically enough. And Giffords walks off and waves the whole way. The audience applauds until she disappears.
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01:21
Kelly introduces Giffords, “someone who has taught me to deny the acceptance of failure. Someone who doesn’t give up. And someone who believes, like Hillary does, that we are all Stronger Together.”
My wife, my wife, the awesome congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
The delegates are on their feet. Giffords walks out slowly, unaided. She smiles and waves, smiles and waves.
The crowd cheers and cheers, it gets louder and louder when Giffords arrives at the lectern.
Fellow Democrats! she says.
Huge cheer.
What a crowd!
We have work ahead of us. Work that will determine the future of our country. Are you ready?
Yeah!
Are you ready?
Yeah!
Are you ready?
Yeah!
I’m ready.
1.18am BST
01:18
Kelly notes he’s a son of two cops and a veteran of dozens of combat operations, and a former astronaut. He says from his unique perspective he has scene the country at its best and worst. “From orbit, I saw our planet as a perfect blue marble.. but I also saw expanding deserts and shrinking rain forests.”
Just as Hillary is prepared to defeat Isis... Hillary is ready to take on one of our country’s greatest moral failures here at home, and that is the gun violence that is tearing so many of our communities apart.
We have to do better. And Hillary knows we can.
1.15am BST
01:15
Here’s Angela Bassett, the actress, who names the victims of the mass shooting inside Charleston AME church in South Carolina.
I visited Charleston this year, and I can tell you that city’s soul is on fire. It burns with resilience... it brought down the confederate flag and it brings the Charleston community closer together every day.”
Basset introduces Felicia Sanders & Polly Sheppard, survivors of the Charleston shooting.
Sanders says she rejects hate:
“It destroys those who harbor it. I refuse to let it destroy me.”
“No one should feel what I’ve seen. No one should feel how we feel. How we suffered. The Bible tells us... turn from our wicked ways. .. Let us heed God’s word, and in turn may God heal our nation.
Sheppard:
Amen. The shooter in Charleston had hate in his heart. Orlando and Dallas too. So much hate, too much. But as scripture says, love never fails. I choose love. And in this election, I choose Hillary Clinton.
Here now is astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Gabby Giffords.
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01:09
Wikileaks releases DNC voicemails – Reuters
We haven’t heard the audio files yet. Developing...
BREAKING: WikiLeaks releases hacked audio recordings of Democratic National Committee voicemails. https://t.co/xzq9hzldIq
1.06am BST
01:06
Now here is former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, who served on the president’s special police reform commission, to talk about the need to stop violence against police officers.
The lineup to follow forges more and more deeply into the theme of the country’s failure to get gun violence under control:
RemarksActress Angela Bassett
RemarksFelicia Sanders & Polly Sheppard
Felicia and Polly are two of the three survivors of the Mother Emanuel Church shooting in Charleston, SC.
RemarksGabby Giffords & Mark Kelly
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