Democrats prepare for unprecedented digital convention – By Al Jazeera and News Agencies (Al Jazeera) / Aug 16 2020
Four-day event set to include formal nomination of Joe Biden as the Democratic challenger of US President Donald Trump.
A presidential primary season like no other will culminate this week for the Democratic Party in the United States in an unprecedented, mostly digital convention that is set to cement Joe Biden as the official candidate tasked with taking on President Donald Trump in a November election.
Only essential staff will be on the ground at the convention centre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a pivotal swing state that had spent millions of dollars preparing to host the high-profile event, which runs from August 17 to 20, before it was scaled back in light of the pandemic.
This year, the fanfare and spontaneity of past conventions – in which about 4,800 delegates officially nominate the Democratic candidate and the party lays out its policy priorities – will be replaced by a series of speeches streamed from across the country, which leads the world in terms of confirmed coronavirus cases and related deaths.
The speeches, about half of which will be pre-recorded, will run for two hours each night. They will include former Democratic presidents and several high-profile senators who just months ago challenged Biden to be the party’s candidate, as well as some of the party’s most respected former officials and rising stars.
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