“How do you make a broken family whole? In the same way you make a fellow man whole: with love and understanding, and with small acts of compassion; with courage; with unusual faith,” Jill Biden plans to say, according to excerpts from her speech. which were issued by the party.
“There were times I could not imagine how he did it – how he put one foot in front of the other and went on,” she said of plan. “But I always understood why he did it … He does it for you.”
The former second lady will also speak as a teacher, delivering her speech from Brandywine High School in Wilmington, Delaware, where she taught English. She will talk about the difficulties and uncertainties that many parents face as they decide if they will send their children back to school in the midst of a pandemic.
“You can hear the fear coming up empty-handed,” she will say. “There is no smell of new notebooks or newly waxed floor. The rooms are dark and the bright young faces they have to fill are confined to compartments on a computer screen.”
While her husband was vice president, Jill Biden continued to teach English full-time at a community college in Virginia. She earned her doctorate in education from the University of Delaware in 2007.
With the programming of the night centered on the theme “United America”, the speech will take an unusual layout with 17 rising stars in the Democratic Party. Reporter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York, the star of the freshman class, will also speak and leaders will lead the virtual roll call that Biden formally selects as the Democratic nominee.
Former President Bill Clinton will play an unusual peripheral role at a Democratic convention, a location where he has been a star center since the 1980s, including during his own campaigns, his speech in 2012 that made the case for a second term for President Barack Obama in a way the official in 2016 never succeeded over his wife.
The influence of the 42nd president in a party that has moved to the left in recent years has waned and his central policy on welfare and crime is now being overshadowed by many progressives. The #MeToo era has thrown its affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky in an even more dubious light.
But Clinton will remember his forensic political skills with a takedown from the current president.
“Donald Trump says we are leading the world. Now, we are the only major industrial economy that has tripled its unemployment rate,” Clinton said, according to an excerpt from his comments released by organizers.
“At a time like this, the Oval Office should be a command center. Instead, it’s a storm center. There’s only chaos. Just one thing never changes – its determination to deny responsibility and shift the blame. The goat never stops there. “
The veterans of the First Chamber once traded heads over foreign policy, but bonded over party lines in a friendship dating back to when McCain served as a military aide after returning from years as a prisoner in the Vietnam War.
The former vice president delivered a powerful eulogy for his friend at his memorial service after he died in 2018 of brain cancer.
“My name is Joe Biden. I’m a Democrat. And I love John McCain,” he said.
The video, titled “An Unexpected Friendship,” can trigger President Donald Trump, who longed for McCain and three years ago brought his thumbs-down voice to a Republican attempt to remarry Obamacare.
Another prominent Republican – former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who served under President George W. Bush – will offer a video tribute to Biden during Tuesday night’s program as part of the Democrats’ effort to draw in Republicans and independents who are frustrated with Trump’s leadership and its divisive tactics.
Although Powell, who also served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George HW Bush, served under Republican administration, he voted for Democrats in the last three presidential elections.
In his video message, Powell will say that America needs a commander in chief who will take care of American troops in the same way that he would take care of his own family.
“For Joe Biden, who does not need learning, it comes from the experience he shares with millions of military families who send their beloved son to war and pray to God that he will return home safely,” he said. Powell said at the taped address.
One reason why Trump had improved his stance in the CNN poll released Sunday was that he had shown solidarity with more conservative voters. Back in June, 8% of Republican or Republican-leaning independents said they would back Biden – but in the new poll, only 4% had plans to support the former vice president.
The poll showed an opportunity for Democrats in recent months, however, because Trump voters were more likely to say they could change their minds (12% said they could) than Biden’s (only 7% said so).
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
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