Kamala Harris to officially accept presidential nomination
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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At the Democratic Party National Convention today, Kamala Harris will speak and accept the nomination to be president. Also on the programme, as 25 million face acute hunger in Sudan, the UN says it's managed to get a15-truck aid convoy into the west of the country; and one half of Australia's famous gay penguin power-couple has died after a short illness.
(Photo: Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris holds a campaign rally in Milwaukee. August 20, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Rebecca Keesby. |
| 0:10.0 | The mood at the Democratic Party National Convention in Chicago this week has been buoyant. |
| 0:15.9 | The late switch in nominee from Joe Biden to Carmala Harris seems to have injected an urgency |
| 0:22.2 | and new energy. but can Kamala Harris keep up that |
| 0:25.9 | momentum and reassure any still doubting her? Well we'll find out later tonight |
| 0:30.6 | when she takes to the stage. |
| 0:32.8 | Last night it was all about her running mate Tim Walls, |
| 0:36.0 | the Midwestern gun-owning former soldier football coach, |
| 0:39.8 | and he leaned heavily on sporting analogies in his speech saying himself it was more like a peep talk |
| 0:45.7 | he said democrats needed to keep holding the ball and block and tackle to win the game |
| 0:51.4 | that being the that being the presidential election of course well former |
| 0:56.2 | president bill Clinton made an appearance as did media mogul Oprah |
| 1:00.2 | Winfrey which is where our correspondent Emma Vardi takes up the story. |
| 1:08.6 | A TV icon was a surprise late edition. |
| 1:14.8 | Oprah Winfrey famously used her huge profile to support Barack Obama in 2008. |
| 1:20.6 | Now she was back. |
| 1:22.0 | We're now so fired up. We can't wait to leave here and do something. |
| 1:28.0 | But this was her first time addressing a democratic convention. |
| 1:32.8 | There are people who want you to see our country as a nation of us against them. |
| 1:38.8 | People who seek first to divide and then to conquer. But here's the thing. When we stand together, it is |
| 1:48.6 | impossible to conquer us. |
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