Monday DNC speaker schedule: Biden delivering keynote as Dems look toward future with Kamala Harris

CHICAGO -- The Democratic National Convention officially got underway Monday.

The opening time of the normal is 1 wherever Democrats are intelligibly excited, arsenic they stitchery together, focused connected the task ahead, moving to assistance Kamala Harris go the adjacent president of the United States.

Party leaders are pumped for the commencement of a precise important week for the party, and the excitement surrounding Harris was palpable from the delegates and kept increasing arsenic the time went on.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker took connected the relation of pb enactment cheerleader astatine the Illinois delegation meal Monday morning, but Democrats started their time with enthusiasm to spare.

"Are you acceptable to elite Kamala Harris, the archetypal pistillate president of the United States? Barack gave america hope. Kamala is going to determination america forward," said Illinois House Speaker Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch (D-IL 7th District).

Party leaders reveled successful the momentum they consciousness down the vice president going into the normal and looking down the roadworthy to November.

"I deliberation what's important to cognize is the vice president had 3 tasks: unite the party, occurrence up the base, reverse the polls. We consciousness that has each been checked off. Now we instrumentality that enthusiasm and effort to grow connected it," said U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Chicago).

Vice Presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz praised President Joe Biden astatine the Congressional Black Caucus gathering and expressed excitement astir the party's future.

"But that's a man, who each the bully decisions helium made, 1 of the archetypal ones helium made was helium enactment Kamala Harris astatine his broadside to marque sure, and past helium listened to her and past helium passed the torch to her," Walz said.

While Pres. Biden is acceptable to springiness the night's keynote address, different nighttime 1 speakers volition beryllium paying tribute to the president.

"We're going to springiness him each the flowers. We're going to speech astir the information that he's astir apt the top labour president, the top renewal president, we've had, and we're going to proceed to enactment him," said U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois)

Monday's taxable is "For the People." Delegates are besides acceptable to ballot connected the 2024 Democratic enactment level Monday evening.

"Joe Biden and Kamala Harris person fought tirelessly for the American mediate people to trim costs, and his trusted vice president, Kamala Harris, is the close idiosyncratic to transportation guardant that fight, and this week is astir celebrating what it means to beryllium 'for the people,'" said Sen. Chris Coons (D-Delaware).

"Joe Biden showed this state what existent enactment looks like. It's astir getting things done for the American people. Results, advancement doing the close happening simply due to the fact that it's the close thing. And present Kamala Harris and Tim Walz person agreed our enactment astir their imaginativeness to pb america into the future," said Cedric Richmond, Harris-Walz run co-chair.

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The proceedings volition beryllium co-chaired by Peggy Flanagan, lieutenant politician of Minnesota. Later primetime programming volition beryllium hosted by Tony Goldwyn.

DNC Night 1 program, talker schedule

Monday's programming begins astatine 5:15 p.m. CT and lasts until 10:15 p.m. CT. Here is the schedule:

5:15 p.m.

• Call to Order: Minyon Moore, seat of the 2024 Democratic National Convention Committee, Jaime R. Harrison, president of the Democratic National Committee
• Invocation: Cardinal Blase Cupich, archdiocese of Chicago
• Land Acknowledgement: Zach Pahmahmie, Tribal Council Vice-Chairman of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and Lorrie Melchior, Tribal Council Secretary of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
• Presentation of Colors: Illinois State Police Honor Guard
• Pledge of Allegiance: William Harrison, 9, and Charles Harrison, 5
• National anthem: Soul Children of Chicago
• Remarks and video introduction: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
• Presentation of the Convention Agenda: Jaime Harrison joined by vice chairs Keisha Lance Bottoms, Ken Martin, and Henry R. Muñoz III, Treasurer Virginia McGregor, and Finance Chair Chris Korge
• Confirmatory and Ceremonial Vote for the Vice Presidential Nominee: Minyon Moore

6 p.m.

• Welcome remarks: Peggy Flanagan
• Welcome Remarks: Jaime Harrison
• Remarks: U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters
• Joint Remarks: Derrick Johnson, President & CEO of the NAACP and Melanie L. Campbell, President & CEO of the National Coalition connected Black Civic Participation
• Honoring the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr, accompanied by Jonathan Jackson and Yusef D. Jackson.
• Remarks: U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood
• Video: Rich Logis: erstwhile Donald Trump voter
• Remarks: U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia
• Remarks: Brian Wallach and Sandra Abrevaya, wellness attraction advocates and founders of I Am ALS
• Remarks: U.S. Senator Dick Durbin
• Remarks from Arizona: Dutch Martinez and Ryan Ahern, The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada (UA)
• Remarks: U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty
• Joint Remarks: Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), April Verrett, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Brent Booker, wide president of the Laborers' International Union of North America (LiUNA), Kenneth W. Cooper, planetary president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Claude Cummings Jr., president of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and Elizabeth H. Shuler, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
• Remarks: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass
• Performance: Mickey Guton
• Joint Remarks connected "Investing successful the Future": California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin A. Davis, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sarah Rodriguez and Harris County, Texas Judge Lina Hidalgo

7 p.m.

• "Project 2025-Chapter One: Introduction": Michigan authorities Sen. Mallory McMorrow
• Remarks: U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schutz
• Remarks: U.S. Sen. Laphonza Butler
• Remarks: U.S. Rep. Linda Haskins
• Remarks: Lt. Jeremy Warmkessel, President of Local 302 IAFF Allentown Firefighters, Pennsylvania
• Remarks: Maria-Isabel Ballivian, Executive Director of the Annandale Christian Community for Action Childhood Development Center, Virginia
• Remarks: Deja Foxx, reproductive rights activists and contented creator
• Performance: Jason Isbell
• Remarks: Gina M. Raimondo, United States caput of commerce
• Remarks: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul

8 p.m.

• Remarks: Steve Kerr, Team USA men's hoops coach
• Shawn Fain, president of the United Automobile Workers
• U.S. Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez
• Remarks: Stacey Johnson-Batiste and Doris Johnson, puerility friends of Kamala Harris
• Hillary Rodham Clinton, erstwhile United States caput of state
• U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn
• U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin
• U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett
• U.S. Rep. Grace Meng

9 p.m.

• Joint Remarks: Amanda and Josh Zurawski, Texas; Kaitlyn Joshua, Louisiana; Hadley Duvall, Kentucky
• Remarks: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear
• Remarks: The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, Georgia senator
• Remarks: U.S. Sen. Chris Coons
• Remarks: First Lady Jill Biden
• Performance: James Taylor
• Ashley Biden
• President Joe Biden
• Benediction: Rabbi Michael S. Beals and Pastor Cindy Rudolph
• Gavel out: Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan

Earlier successful the day, meetings were held astatine McCormick Place, including the following:

• Black Caucus featuring Rep. Barbara Lee and Rep. Jahana Hayes
• Hispanic Caucus featuring Miguel Cardona, House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar and Rep. Maxwell Frost
• AAPI Caucus featuring Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi
• Native American Caucus featuring Tucson Mayor Regina Romero
• Ethnic Council featuring Lisa Ann Walter and erstwhile New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
• LGBTQ+ Caucus featuring Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, BenDeLaCreme, and Peppermint
• Labor Council featuring Miguel Cardona, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Rep. Tom Suozzi, Rep. Donald Norcross, and AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler
• Small Business Council featuring Rep. Morgan McGarvey
• Environmental and Climate Crisis Council featuring Rep. Ro Khanna and AFT President Randi Weingarten