It was electric. I had goosebumps.
Five memorable moments from DNC’s first night (msn.com)
Joe Biden becomes emotional after warm receptionBiden was visibly moved as he took the stage for his convention remarks following his daughter Ashley’s introduction. The president wiped tears away as he hugged his daughter and stood at the podium amid thunderous applause and chants of “thank you, Joe.” Members of the crowd also carried signs reading “thank you, Joe.”
“I made a lot of my mistake in my career, but I gave my best to you,” Biden said to applause. “For 50 years, like many of you, I gave my heart and my soul to our nation. And I’ve been blessed a million times in return to support the American people.”“I was too young to be in the Senate,” Biden said. “And too old to stay as president. I hope you know how grateful I am to all of you.”
Kamala Harris makes surprise appearance
The vice president received a rockstar welcome in Chicago’s United Center as she walked onto the stage to “Freedom” by Beyonce.
Hillary Clinton hopeful Harris will break glass ceiling Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was also there for a passing of the torch moment and expressed her hope that the vice president could be the first woman to break the glass ceiling in her presidential run.
Jesse Jackson makes rare public appearance
AOC brings down the house Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) delivered a fiery speech that was largely geared to middle-class and working-class Americans during the first night of the party’s nominating convention. Ocasio-Cortez also used her remarks to take a number of jabs at Trump.“Donald Trump would sell this country for a dollar if it meant lining his own pockets and greasing the palms of his Wall Street friends,” Ocasio-Cortez exclaimed. “And I, for one, am tired of hearing about how a two bit union buster thinks of himself as more of a patriot than the woman who fights every single day to lift working people out from under the boots of greed trampling on our way of life.”