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(NewsNation) — President Joe Biden is expected to present a keynote code astatine adjacent month’s Democratic National Convention successful Chicago, according to reports.
DNC officials told NewsNation that speech from the nominee acceptance speeches, nary last programming decisions person been made yet. However, CNN and CBS News person reported that the existent program is for Biden to talk Aug. 19, the convention's archetypal night.
A "big tribute" is planned for the president that night, a root acquainted with the readying told CBS. A DNC authoritative added that nary decisions person been finalized, but said, "consistent with humanities precedent, existent and past Presidents are expected to enactment successful normal programming."
"We look guardant to sharing much soon astir our normal successful Chicago wherever Democrats volition connection a forward-looking imaginativeness for our state that stands successful stark opposition to the extremism from Donald Trump's normal that would instrumentality America backwards," Matt Hill, elder manager of communications for the DNC, told CBS News.
Democrats volition stitchery for the normal at Chicago’s United Center from Aug. 19-22.
More than 50,000 attendees are expected to sojourn Chicago, with astatine slightest 5,000 delegates expected successful attendance.
Some enactment leaders are hoping Democrats volition unify down Vice President Kamala Harris and debar different unfastened normal successful Chicago wherever the nominee is not a foregone conclusion.
Harris is inactive required to fastener successful 1,969 of 3,936 Democratic delegates to unafraid her party’s information to look erstwhile Trump successful November. Democrats person been throwing their enactment down Harris’ run since Biden dropped retired of the statesmanlike contention and endorsed Harris.
NewsNation analogous Kelsey Kernstine contributed to this repot.
