The last day of the Democratic Party Convention ends with Kamala Harris’s big moment: her acceptance speech in which she tells her story to the millions of watching Americans.
Her campaign team says that in addition to describing her middle-class upbringing, she will continue to emphasize optimism and patriotism – the “politics of joy” – the common themes we heard throughout the convention.
Latest developments
22 August, 12:58
Gun control is discussed ahead of Harris’s remarks
Before Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage Thursday night, survivors of gun violence and advocates for safe gun use will address the DNC, said Michael Tyler, spokesman for the Harris-Walz campaign.
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords, Rep. Maxwell Frost and the “Tennessee Three” – state Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson – are also expected to speak.
Tyler told reporters that Governors Gretchen Whitmer and Roy Cooper, Senators Mark Kelly and Elizabeth Warren, and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a member of the Jan. 6 select committee, will also deliver remarks.
-Will McDuffie of ABC News
22 August, 10:11 am
Kamala Harris tells her personal story in acceptance speech
The fourth and final day of the Democratic Party Convention is heading towards a dramatic finale: Kamala Harris will give her acceptance speech and tell her personal story in her own words to an audience of millions.
She is expected to talk about a middle-class upbringing with a working mother. She will continue to emphasize the themes we have heard from speakers throughout the convention: optimism and patriotism – the “politics of joy” – while contrasting, according to her campaign team, with the “gloomy” vision of Donald Trump.
