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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — As the Democratic National Convention kicks disconnected Monday successful Chicago, President Joe Biden is preparing to springiness a cardinal code that is expected to diagnostic his administration's accomplishments, Democratic priorities and handing implicit the enactment to Vice President Kamala Harris.
However, portion each eyes are connected Biden, Harris and vice statesmanlike nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, tens of thousands of demonstrators person already taken to the streets protesting the convention.
Protesters rallied Sunday successful the bosom of the Windy City, astir of them demanding Democrats extremity their enactment for Israel and its warfare successful Gaza.
Thousands of Chicago constabulary are lasting by to support protests peaceful and distant from DNC events.
Biden's evolving Harris run role
Biden is expected to instrumentality the podium Monday night, but helium won't beryllium doing truthful arsenic the Democratic Party's nominee. The president dropped retired of the 2024 election past period aft tremendous unit from delegates successful his ain party.
The aforesaid time that helium announced the extremity of his campaign, Harris stepped into the spotlight to state her statesmanlike run.
Biden's code Monday is expected to necktie Harris to the Biden administration's accomplishments, which the president touts arsenic the infrastructure bill, the Inflation Reduction Act and a simplification successful the costs of cardinal medicine drugs for those connected Medicare.
"She is going to marque 1 hellhole of a president," Biden said.
Biden paints Trump arsenic ideology risk
Biden is besides expected to proceed to marque a lawsuit for democracy, claiming that a 2nd Donald Trump presidency would enactment Democratic norms astatine risk.
It's a connection that Harris has yet to thin into connected the run trail.
However, galore Democratic leaders who lobbied publically and down closed doors to unit Biden to measurement speech from his run volition beryllium successful attendance arsenic the president speaks. Biden volition person to enactment to resonate with those delegates.
For Harris, she volition person to proceed to separate herself with her ain acceptable of caller policies portion inactive owning the Biden-Harris accomplishments. This is expected to beryllium a situation successful itself for the statesmanlike hopeful.
Who other is speaking Monday?
More than 50,000 attendees are expected to sojourn Chicago, with astatine slightest 5,000 delegates expected successful attendance.
Convention organizers person a batch to acceptable successful the premier clip of the 4 days successful summation to the statesmanlike and vice statesmanlike information acceptance speeches. Organizers person adjacent gone arsenic acold arsenic to delegate themes for each night.
Monday's taxable is "For the People."
Chicago Brandon Johnson is slated to invited Democrats to the normal and is expected to speech astir Democrats' efforts crossed cardinal Midwestern states Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is besides slated to speak.
