{"id":106872,"date":"2024-08-20T18:03:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/dnc-2024-day-2-live-updates-obamas-set-to-help-hand-torch-to-kamala-harris\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T18:03:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T18:03:47","slug":"dnc-2024-day-2-live-updates-obamas-set-to-help-hand-torch-to-kamala-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/dnc-2024-day-2-live-updates-obamas-set-to-help-hand-torch-to-kamala-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC 2024 Day 2 live updates: Obamas set to help hand torch to Kamala Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-20\/GettyImages_KamalaHarris_082024.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Jacek Boczarski\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(CHICAGO) &#8212; After an emotional tribute to President Joe Biden Monday night, the scene at the Democrats&#8217; gathering on Tuesday shifts to appearances by former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n<p>In their highly anticipated prime-time speeches, the Obamas are expected to help clearly &#8220;pass the torch&#8221; to Kamala Harris, who will be holding a rally in Milwaukee this evening ahead of her acceptance speech Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the news is developing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obamas to make prime-time speeches<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The attention on Day 2 of the Democrats\u2019 gathering shifts from celebrating President Joe Biden to prime-time speeches from former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama. They&#8217;ll help pass the party torch to Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>The convention will also hold a ceremonial roll call to nominate Harris, which follows the party&#8217;s virtual process doing so earlier this month. Harris officially had the vast majority of delegate votes needed to secure her nomination when that process ended on Aug. 6.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s expected that California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Harris\u2019 home state delegation will cast the vote putting her over the top.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacek Boczarski\/Anadolu via Getty Images (CHICAGO) &#8212; After an emotional tribute to President Joe Biden Monday night, the scene at the Democrats&#8217; gathering on Tuesday shifts to appearances by former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama. In their highly anticipated prime-time speeches, the Obamas are expected to<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/dnc-2024-day-2-live-updates-obamas-set-to-help-hand-torch-to-kamala-harris\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}