Thank you so much.

Thank you.

The 46th Quadrennial National Convention of the Democratic Party will now come to order.

Welcome, welcome delegates, alternates,

standing committee members, special guests, friends, members of the news media,

guests from around the world, and fellow Americans

to our deliberations.

Thank you.

Presidential nominating conventions.

They've been part of American politics since 1831.

This year, the coronavirus pandemic may change all that.

Here's this year's presumptive Democratic candidate,

former Vice President Joe Biden. Well, we're going to have to do a convention. We may have to do a

virtual convention. I don't think we should be thinking about that right now. The idea of

holding the convention is going to be necessary, but we may not be able to put 10, 20, 30,000 people in one place,

and that's very possible.

But President Trump has other ideas.

He wants cheering delegates in a convention hall to show how he's opened up the economy.

I just want to make something clear.

It's very important.

Vaccine or no vaccine, we're back, and we're starting the process.

And in many cases, they don't have vaccines, and a virus or a flu comes, and you fight through it.

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