Photo: Agustin Paullier Agence France-Presse A woman walks in front of a mural depicting, from left, Martin Luther King Jr, Barack Obama and Kamala Harris on Monday in Los Angeles.
Camille Camdessus – Agence France-Presse in Chicago
Posted at 7:43 a.m. Updated at 7:11 p.m.
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After paying a vibrant tribute to Joe Biden on Monday, Democrats are preparing to crown Kamala Harris as their party's nominee on Tuesday during a day of celebration in Chicago, with Barack and Michelle Obama as distinguished guests.
The party, gathered in convention after one of the most eventful months in American political history, will formalize the entry of the vice president into the race for the White House, facing Republican Donald Trump.
One by one, the representatives of each American state will advance into the lair of the legendary Chicago Bulls basketball club, carpeted in blue, in order to designate Kamala Harris as their new candidate for the presidential election on November 5.
This investiture had already been formalized during an online vote.
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In the evening, delegates will attend speeches by one of their party’s star couples: the Obamas.
“It’s great to be back in Chicago!” “, declared the first black president of the United States, in reference to the city where he learned his political trade.
“One of the best speakers”
He will explain Tuesday evening “why Kamala Harris should be our president,” he wrote in a message on X.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000The 44th president of the United States (2009-2017) and his wife Michelle are still very popular among Democrats.
“He's one of the best speakers of our time” and “he's very good at getting the energy level up and getting volunteers involved,” Ted Hiserodt, 56, a delegate from Arizona, told AFP.
Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, will give a very personal portrait of the vice president just before.
“America, in this election, you have to decide who you trust with the future of your families. I trusted Kamala with the future of our family. “It's the best decision I've ever made,” he said, according to an excerpt from his speech distributed in advance.
The smiling lawyer, very involved in the campaign, and the vice-president have a blended family, with two children he had from a previous relationship.
Transfuge
Also expected earlier: Senator Bernie Sanders, who represents the left wing of the party, and a Trumpist figure: Donald Trump's former spokesperson at the White House, Stephanie Grisham, now very critical of the Republican candidate.
“I never thought I would speak at a Democratic convention, but after seeing up close who [the former president] really is, and the threat that “he represents for the country, I am very determined to talk about it,” the Republican told NBC News.
The 78-year-old billionaire, who is campaigning in several Key States this week assured Howell, Michigan, that “crime is out of control in the United States,” placing the blame on Kamala Harris.
Violent crimes in the United States have been declining since 2020, when they soared amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Her Democratic rival, who has less than three months to convince Americans, will briefly leave Chicago on Tuesday to make a detour to the neighboring state of Wisconsin, one of the most contested in the presidential election.
Wisconsin
She will give a speech in Milwaukee in the middle of the evening, the same place where Donald Trump was invested by the Republicans a month earlier.
A snub to the former president, forced to review his electoral strategy after the shock withdrawal of his best enemy Joe Biden a month ago.
The American vice president will accept her party's nomination in front of the world's cameras during a big evening on Thursday, punctuated by the dropping of thousands of balloons.
On Monday night, a little over 19 million people, according to the Nielsen company, attended a symbolic passing of the torch between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, to cheers and tears.
“America, for you I gave everything. I made a lot of mistakes in my career. But I gave you everything,” declared the 81-year-old president, who was bidding his political farewell to the country.