Former GOP representative Charlie Dent endorses Biden; Kamala Harris, Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton headline tonight’s DNC; CNN poll: 56% of Americans willing to receive Covid vaccine; Trump campaign sues New Jersey, claiming mailing ballots to all voters would “invite fraud”
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Harris set to make history tonight with nomination for VP; W.H.O. official to young people: you’re not “invincible” to virus; NY Gov. wants schools to reexamine opening plans; NYT: FDA halts blood plasma authorization over weak data; Experts: pooled testing is not being used widely in the U.S.; U.S. Army discontinued testing on unproven therapeutic; Aides: Harris wants “people to see themselves in her speech”; Republican primary candidate target of fake texts, Youtube video falsely claiming he dropped out; Lingering health effects of coronavirus begin to emerge
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin this hour with breaking news. We are learning |
| 0:06.0 | new details about the third night of the Democratic National Convention where in just a few |
| 0:10.8 | hours we will see some history being made with Senator |
| 0:13.6 | Kamala Harris, Democratic California, set to become the first black and |
| 0:17.1 | South Asian woman formerly nominated for Vice President by a major political |
| 0:22.0 | party in the United States. |
| 0:23.2 | Harris will also speak this evening along with former president Barack Obama and |
| 0:27.6 | Hillary Clinton who was the first woman nominated for president by our major political |
| 0:31.8 | party. |
| 0:32.5 | The night of heavy Democraticators |
| 0:34.5 | follows Tuesday's pitches for the Biden Harris ticket, |
| 0:37.5 | which included former Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell |
| 0:40.7 | joining a growing list of Republicans backing Biden. |
| 0:43.9 | A few days ago Republican Governor John Kasek noted that he expected a former Republican member |
| 0:48.6 | of Congress to join him in crossing the political divide and endorse Democrat Joe Biden. |
| 0:53.2 | That member of Congress will be right here on the lead in just a few minutes, but first it is a huge |
| 0:58.2 | night for Vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris. |
| 1:01.1 | As CNN's MJ Lee reports, AID tells CNN that Harris hopes people will |
| 1:05.1 | see themselves and their life stories in her acceptance speech. |
| 1:11.3 | Night three of an unconventional Democratic National Convention poised to make more history tonight. Senator Kamala Harris, the first woman of color on a major party ticket, will deliver the biggest speech of her career as Joe |
| 1:24.2 | Biden's vice presidential running mate. Joe Biden had the audacity to |
| 1:29.9 | choose a black woman to be his running mate. The daughter of Jamaican and Indian |
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