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| Democratic Convention Night 3: What You’ve Missed So Far | |
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| As their convention enters Night 3, Democrats will be craning to look both backward and forward. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the man who hopes to replace him, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, will both take the stage. And President Obama, in one of the week’s most anticipated addresses, is expected to begin passing the reins of the party he has led for two terms to Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state. | As their convention enters Night 3, Democrats will be craning to look both backward and forward. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the man who hopes to replace him, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, will both take the stage. And President Obama, in one of the week’s most anticipated addresses, is expected to begin passing the reins of the party he has led for two terms to Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state. |
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| • The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the influential African-American leader, said the country was engaged in a “a tug of war for America’s soul” and Mrs. Clinton — “trusted and tested and tried” — would be the one to pull it toward justice. Reprising his idea of a “rainbow coalition” of races and faiths, Mr. Jackson repeated again and again, “It’s healing time. It’s hope time. It’s Hillary time.” | • The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the influential African-American leader, said the country was engaged in a “a tug of war for America’s soul” and Mrs. Clinton — “trusted and tested and tried” — would be the one to pull it toward justice. Reprising his idea of a “rainbow coalition” of races and faiths, Mr. Jackson repeated again and again, “It’s healing time. It’s hope time. It’s Hillary time.” |
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| • More than two dozen members of the Congressional Black Caucus took the stage early in the night to warn that Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee, would revive the bigotry of earlier American generations. Mr. Trump’s words “have been hostile, they’ve been bigoted and insulting,” said Representative G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina, the caucus’s chairman. | |
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| • Greeted with chants of his name, Harry Reid, the Senate Democrats’ retiring leader, outlined one final fight: Defeating Mr. Trump to preserve the party’s legislative agenda. He also tied Senate Republicans, who he said gave rise to “a hateful con man,” to Mr. Trump’s candidacy, a strategy Democrats think could help them retake control of the Senate. |