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| Obama speaks on behalf of Hillary Clinton at Democratic convention – live coverage | |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| 3.39am BST | |
| 03:39 | |
| Obama to speak | |
| Here’s what’s left: | |
| Sharon Belkofer, to introduce a film about the president. “You’re all probably wondering, who the heck is this sweet little old lady.” | |
| The crowd laughs. She says she’s a mom to three who served in the military, a retired nurse, grandma of 10 and now a great grandma. The DNC bio has this: | |
| Sharon Belkofer is the mother of fallen Lt. Col. Thomas Belkofer. Her son was killed when a suicide bomber detonated a minibus in a convoy carrying Belkofer and three other high-ranking officers in Kabul, Afghanistan. | |
| Here’s the film: | |
| The president is next. | |
| 3.37am BST | |
| 03:37 | |
| Kaine: 'Hillary is ready' | |
| Kaine is nearing the finish line. He says Clinton is ready. “And when I say ready, I use ready for a very specific reason. When I lived in Honduras I learned that the best compliment you could give someone was to say they were “listo” ... prepared, battle-tested, rock-solid, up for anything... and friends, Hillary Clinton is lista!” | |
| He closes: | |
| Hillary is ready. She’s ready to fight, she’s ready to win. And she is ready to lead. God bless. | |
| Happy cheering for that. The podium disappears again. Kaine walks around and says hi to everyone. His wife Anne comes out and waves to. The camera goes to Chelsea Clinton who’s clapping. he delegates all wave their Clinton-Kaine signs. There’s syncopated clapping. The Kaines are still wandering about the stage and waving. Now they wind down and exit. | |
| 3.33am BST | |
| 03:33 | |
| Kaine points out that Ohio governor John Kasich refused to attend the Cleveland convention “because he thinks that Donald Trump is such a moral disaster.” | |
| “Is there anyone in this building who believes him?” | |
| No! | |
| 3.31am BST | |
| 03:31 | |
| Kaine keeps it up hitting Trump. “Folks, you cannot believe one word that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth.” | |
| It becomes a chant: | |
| Not one word! | |
| Not one word! | |
| Not one word! | |
| Kaine: “To me it seems like our nation it’s just too great to put in the hands of a slick-talking, empty-promising, self-promoting, one-man wrecking crew. | |
| “Don’t take it from me. Take it from former first lady Barbara Bush. She said she didn’t know how any woman could vote for him after his offensive comments.” | |
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| 03:29 | |
| Kaine unveils Trump impression | |
| Kaine says Clinton was not afraid to step up against thugs and dictators. | |
| Kaine says Americans trust Clinton to protect them and to help solve their problems, “and on a personal level, as he’s serving our nation abroad, I trust Hillary Clinton with our son’s life.” | |
| That’s a pretty dramatic line that gets good cheers. He continues: | |
| “You know who I don’t trust? I wonder? Donald Trump! DOnald Trump. Trump is a guy who promises a lot. But you might have noticed. He has a habit of saying the same two words right after he makes his biggest promises. You guys know the words I mean? “Believe me.” | |
| Now Kaine rolls out a Trump impression, listing promises Trump has made – the wall that Mexico will pay for, the fast destruction of Isis, “there’s nothing suspicious in my tax returns” – believe me! | |
| Kaine’s Trump impression boils down to making himself sound stupid when he says Believe Me. | |
| Kaine: Does anybody in this massive auditorium believe that Donald Trump’s been paying his fair share of taxes? | |
| Crowd: NO! | |
| Kaine: “Hey Donald, what are you hiding? And yet, Donald still says, ‘believe me.’ Believe me. Believe me? Believe me? Most people, when they’re running for president, they don’t just say “believe me.” They respect you enough to tell you how they’ll get things done. | |
| 3.23am BST | |
| 03:23 | |
| Kaine now takes a dig at Trump. | |
| “Hillary has a passion for kids and families. Donald Lump – Donald Trump has a passion too. It’s himself!” | |
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| 03:22 | |
| Kaine says that “I spend a time with a lot of Republican senators who, once the’ve made sure nobody’s listening, will tell you how fantastic a senator Hillary Clinton was.” | |
| How many times has that happened? | |
| Kaine keeps going. And then he gets his first real big applause of the speech. | |
| “We must love our neighbors as ourselves,” he says. Sounds plagiarized. “Hillary Clinton and I are compañeros de alma,” he says. “We share this belief: Do all the good you can. Serve one another. That’s what I’m about. That’s what you’re about. That’s what Bernie Sanders is about. That’s what Joe Biden is about. That’s what Barack and Michelle Obama are about. And that’s what Hillary Clinton is about.” | |
| ¡Si se puede! someone yells. | |
| Kaine repeats the phrase, and it turns into a big chant. | |
| 3.18am BST | |
| 03:18 | |
| Kaine describes his work as a civil rights lawyer. We’re at the top of page two now. He describes winning a Richmond city council race “by a landslide margin of 94 votes.” | |
| He started in politics at the local level. (Who’s that in contrast to?) Then he became mayor, lieutenant governor and governor. | |
| “I was a hard-times governor,” he says. “But hey, tough times don’t last, and tough people do.” | |
| Who’s that standing to cheer down front? Virginia, of course. | |
| Kaine turns to the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. “We shed tears and held each other up, but afterwards we rolled up our sleeves, and fixed a loophole in our background check system to make us safer.” | |
| Kaine is now a senator on the armed services and foreign relations committees, and on the budget committee with... Vermont’s Bernie Sanders. | |
| Saying “Bernie Sanders” is all it takes to get this crowd to cheer their heads off. The camera moves to Sanders, in the audience. He smiles a bit. | |
| Kaine: “WE all should feel the Bern, and we all should not want to get burned by the other guy.” | |
| 3.14am BST | |
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| Kaine continues his biography, making some political points along the way. He describes himself in the 1970s as “this goofy guy who had been off teaching kids in Honduras.... Well, Anne and i have now been married for almost 32 years.” | |
| The camera now moves to Anne’s parents, Lin and Jinks, “90-plus and going strong.” | |
| “Lin’s still a Republican. But he’s voting for a lot of Democrats these days,” Kaine says. | |
| “If any of you are looking for that party of Lincoln, we’ve got a home right here for you in the Democratic party.” | |
| 3.11am BST | |
| 03:11 | |
| Kaine speaks Spanish | |
| “I humbly accept my party’s nomination to be vice president.” | |
| He was born in Minnesota. Grew up in KC. His dad ran a union ironworking shop. His mom was dad’s bes salesman. He learned about hard work and faith. | |
| Jesuit boys’ school. “Men for others.” Where his “faith became vital.” Then he went to Honduras. | |
| He switches to Spanish. | |
| The crowd cheers that. A standing ovation even, for some. | |
| ¡Somos Americanos todos! | |
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| There’s a big anti-TPP chant breaking out in Missouri. Those rabble-rousers are recognizable as some of the strongest Bernie-backers. | |
| Kaine has committed the mortal trespass, for the Sanders wing of the Democratic party, of supporting free trade. | |
| Adding to the distraction is some strange mic business, where we hear someone talking technical talk. That goes away. | |
| 3.06am BST | |
| 03:06 | |
| The lectern that pops up and down does not pop up for Kaine. We spoke too soon, there it is. | |
| Kaine walks the lip of the stage as they play some exciting 70s cop drama theme music and the delegates stand and clap. | |
| Kaine thanks his family. Notes his son Nat deployed with his Marine battalion two days ago “to protect and defend the very NATO allies that Donald Trump says he now wants to abandon. Semper Fi, Nat!” | |
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| We have an advance copy of Tim Kaine’s remarks and they’re three full pages, when most speeches have been running one page or less. | We have an advance copy of Tim Kaine’s remarks and they’re three full pages, when most speeches have been running one page or less. |
| Get comfortable, America. You’re about to meet Tim Kaine. | Get comfortable, America. You’re about to meet Tim Kaine. |
| 3.03am BST | 3.03am BST |
| 03:03 | 03:03 |
| Scott announces Tim Kaine, and everyone claps for Tim Kaine, but it turns out they’re just clapping for a video, because no essential points are entrusted simply to speakers anymore, because the way people intake information is by watching TV. It’s a tribute video to Tim Kaine. “They still live in the same house they moved into 24 years ago.” Stuff like that. “Virginia was named the best state in the country to raise a child.” | Scott announces Tim Kaine, and everyone claps for Tim Kaine, but it turns out they’re just clapping for a video, because no essential points are entrusted simply to speakers anymore, because the way people intake information is by watching TV. It’s a tribute video to Tim Kaine. “They still live in the same house they moved into 24 years ago.” Stuff like that. “Virginia was named the best state in the country to raise a child.” |
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| Instead of more Kravitz we’re going to watch that Fight Song video we saw last night again. | Instead of more Kravitz we’re going to watch that Fight Song video we saw last night again. |
| Now here’s Rep Bobby Scott from Virginia. He’s not on the speaker’s list. But he’s here to introduce the running mate. | Now here’s Rep Bobby Scott from Virginia. He’s not on the speaker’s list. But he’s here to introduce the running mate. |
| 2.58am BST | 2.58am BST |
| 02:58 | 02:58 |
| Adam Gabbatt | Adam Gabbatt |
| Wikileaks released its latest disclosures on Wednesday – 29 voicemails mined from the emails it leaked over the weekend, writes Adam Gabbatt: | Wikileaks released its latest disclosures on Wednesday – 29 voicemails mined from the emails it leaked over the weekend, writes Adam Gabbatt: |
| But whereas the Democratic National Committee emails rocked the Democratic party, revealing bias against Bernie Sanders and forcing DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to quit, the voicemails are much, much, much less interesting. | But whereas the Democratic National Committee emails rocked the Democratic party, revealing bias against Bernie Sanders and forcing DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to quit, the voicemails are much, much, much less interesting. |
| The voicemail with the most potential to be juicy is from the film producer husband of a Democratic operative. But there is no juice. The film producer leaves a message saying he and his wife could speak to the recipient later that day. | The voicemail with the most potential to be juicy is from the film producer husband of a Democratic operative. But there is no juice. The film producer leaves a message saying he and his wife could speak to the recipient later that day. |
| The voicemails appear to have been sent as audio files to recipients’ email addresses, which is likely how they were obtained by Wikileaks. | The voicemails appear to have been sent as audio files to recipients’ email addresses, which is likely how they were obtained by Wikileaks. |
| Three of the messages relate to a reception for ambassadors at the White House. But there is nothing scandalous. The messages are essentially RSVPs. | Three of the messages relate to a reception for ambassadors at the White House. But there is nothing scandalous. The messages are essentially RSVPs. |
| Four of the leaked voicemails are from the same female voter. The woman, who identifies herself as a Democratic party member, leaves a series of angry messages regarding the party apparently being too soft with Bernie Sanders. | Four of the leaked voicemails are from the same female voter. The woman, who identifies herself as a Democratic party member, leaves a series of angry messages regarding the party apparently being too soft with Bernie Sanders. |
| The Vermont senator is “getting way too much influence” in the party, she says. “I don’t understand it. You guys are losing me,” she warns. | The Vermont senator is “getting way too much influence” in the party, she says. “I don’t understand it. You guys are losing me,” she warns. |
| Many of the other voicemails are very short – people leaving a phone number and requesting a callback. | Many of the other voicemails are very short – people leaving a phone number and requesting a callback. |
| Among the longer messages is an invite to a parents’ meeting at a school. | Among the longer messages is an invite to a parents’ meeting at a school. |
| “All parents are invited Friday morning at 8.50am,” the message leaver says. “We’ll be discussing ways to help students navigating change. Specifically around change to our buildings.” | “All parents are invited Friday morning at 8.50am,” the message leaver says. “We’ll be discussing ways to help students navigating change. Specifically around change to our buildings.” |
| The woman leaving the voicemail mentions the name of a school in Washington DC, before urging parents to attend the meeting. | The woman leaving the voicemail mentions the name of a school in Washington DC, before urging parents to attend the meeting. |
| “There’s also free babysitting available,” she says. | “There’s also free babysitting available,” she says. |
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| Kravitz starts out with a slow jam version of Let Love Rule. The crowd seems into it. But all anybody does at concerts anymore is stand there and film it on their iPhone so they can not watch it later. Kravitz plays his guitar a bit and someone in the band knows their way around the saxophone. | Kravitz starts out with a slow jam version of Let Love Rule. The crowd seems into it. But all anybody does at concerts anymore is stand there and film it on their iPhone so they can not watch it later. Kravitz plays his guitar a bit and someone in the band knows their way around the saxophone. |
| How can Hillary Clinton keep us safe from ISIS if she can't keep us safe from Lenny Kravitz? | How can Hillary Clinton keep us safe from ISIS if she can't keep us safe from Lenny Kravitz? |
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| “Please welcome Lenny Kravitz.” | “Please welcome Lenny Kravitz.” |
| The crowd complies. Wow that’s a lot of backup singers. | The crowd complies. Wow that’s a lot of backup singers. |