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The Democratic National Convention is creating LGBT history in full public view. This will mark the first national political party convention with LGBT participation on every level: the largest number of out LGBT delegates and OUT delegates at every level, from a small country district to super delegate, from county commissioner to U.S. Senator.
President Barack Obama speaks during the third day session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. . Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., takes the stage during the third day session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 27, 2016.
If you only read one thing: Good morning from Philadelphia, where there is a new boss of the Democratic Party. The moment the baton was passed was not when President Obama implored his faithful to secure his legacy by voting for Hillary Clinton.
Sen. Ted Cruz "freaked out" over news reports that Rep. JoaquA n Castro is eyeing a run against him in 2018, the Democrat said Thursday. "He freaked out," Castro told reporters at a Texas delegation breakfast meeting, when asked about a fundraising email Cruz's campaign sent after the Democrat publicly discussed a possible Senate bid .
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In advance of Wednesday's packed convention activities - perhaps the most content-heavy convention night I can remember across my four decades watching conventions - the Arkansans delegation spent a little time with Bill Clinton at a reception called "Where It All Began." The name of the party - held at the WHYY-FM public radio building, a snazzy space near Independence Hall - was a double entendre for Philadelphia's role as the birthplace of American democracy and Arkansas's role in fostering Hillary Clinton's public service work.
In the coming weeks and months, we will all be inundated with polls, pundits and speeches telling us one presidential candidate is going to win in November. Be it Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump - no third-party candidate will make even a marginal ripple in the presidential pool party this year - we will have a new president after the polls close on Nov. 8. What does that mean? It means that the decisions of your local school board have a greater affect on you that anything in Washington, D.C. Just look at it this way: school districts around here pass multi-million budgets wherein they spend whatever moneys they have to educate area children.
There was not a literal baton, but Barack Obama passed it to Hillary Clinton. The Democratic nominee made a surprise appearance on stage after the president finished addressing the convention Wednesday night.
President Barack Obama speaks during the third day session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. . Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., takes the stage during the third day session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Wednesday, July 27, 2016.
Last Friday, Tim Kaine's name lit up the news when Hillary Clinton announced him as her choice for vice president. Clinton introduced Kaine as someone with a lifelong commitment to social justice and a progressive who knows how to get things done.
Philadelphia a A year ago, it would have been laughable to even suggest Democrats could take Utah in a presidential race. It has been more than two generations - 52 years - since the Beehive State went blue and only once in subsequent presidential elections has the Democratic nominee won more than a third of the state's vote - and only by a whisker.
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''I ask you to carry her the same way you carried me,'' says President Barack Obama, who embraces Hillary Clinton on stage at the Democratic National Convention. Rough Cut .
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine, of Virginia, walks onto the stage Wednesday night before addressing delegates on the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA - Their political fates now entwined, President Obama is imploring voters to elect Hillary Clinton to the White House, joining a chorus of Democrats vouching Wednesday night for her readiness to be commander in chief at a time of volatility around the world.
After months of training, this elite skydiver says he's ready to leave his chute in the pl... . In this Monday, July 25, 2016 photo, skydiver Luke Aikins jumps from a helicopter during his training in Simi Valley, Calif.
Sen. Tim Kaine formally accepted the Democratic nomination as vice president Wednesday, saying that he trusts Hillary Clinton with the life of his son, who is in the military, lacing into Donald Trump. He was officially nominated as the party's nominee after a voice vote on the floor of the convention this afternoon.
Over-the-top hyperbole is par for the course at any party's convention, especially when it's former president Bill Clinton extolling the virtues of his wife. But there came a point last night when the former president's gushing for Hillary crossed the line into Twilight-Zone absurdity.
Some supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders booed speakers at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 25 - and a few Clinton fans aren't happy about it. The possible futures of Bernie Sanders's "political revolution" were visible across this city on Wednesday.
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg would stick out in a crowd of New York's delegates to the Democratic National Convention. But tonight he'll stand in front of them to endorse their party's candidate, Hillary Clinton.