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Biden speech delayed until after primetime

Biden speech delayed until after primetime

President Biden’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was delayed until after prime time on Monday night.  The 81-year-old president used a tissue to dry his tears after being introduced on stage by daughter Ashley Biden at about 10:25 p.m. CT.  He went on to deliver about an hour-long address that did not conclude until well after midnight on the East Coast.  “This is awful,” a longtime Biden aide texted Axios. “He literally set up a campaign and handed it over to them – do they have to cut him out of prime time?” In a statement to Fox News, convention officials attributed the delay to the energy of the audience throughout the night.  “Because of the raucous applause interrupting speaker after speaker, we ultimately skipped elements of our program to ensure we could get to President Biden as quickly as possible so that he could speak directly to the American people,” convention officials said in a statement obtained by Axios. “We are proud of the electric atmosphere in our convention hall and proud that our convention is showcasing the broad and diverse coalition behind the Harris-Walz ticket throughout the week on and off stage.”  After concluding his speech in the dead of night, Biden arrived on the West Coast after 5 a.m. ET. The president is now on vacation and is not expected to participate in the remaining three days of the convention, including when Vice President Harris is expected to formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday.  BIDEN SAYS DNC ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS ‘HAVE A POINT,’ RIPS TRUMP AS ‘NOT WORTHY’ OF OVAL OFFICE In his keynote speech, which wrapped the first night of the four-day convention, Biden attacked Republican nominee and former President Trump on issues including the violent Charlottesville protests, the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the border and crime, referencing the start of Harris’ political career in urging Americans to “put a prosecutor in the Oval Office instead of a convicted felon.”  Biden also denied reports that he was angry after fellow Democrats urged him to discontinue his re-election campaign following his disastrous Atlanta debate performance against Trump in June.  “It’s been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job, but I love my country more. I love my country more. Now, all this talk about how I’m angry. All those people said I should step down. That’s not true. I love my country more,” Biden said. The president noted his advanced age and decades-long career in politics.  “I made a lot of mistakes in my career. But I gave my best to you,” Biden said. “For 50 years. Like many of you, I give my heart and soul to our nation. And I’ve been blessed a million times in return with the support of the American people. I’ve either been too young to be in the Senate because I wasn’t 30 yet and too old to stay as president. But I hope you know how grateful I am to all of you.”  BIDEN GOES OFF SCRIPT AND THROWS A LIFELINE TO TERROR SUPPORTERS DURING DNC SPEECH AND MORE TOP HEADLINES Yet, as he’s notorious for, Biden mangled his words during a portion of the address regarding the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.   “As you heard earlier tonight, United States Supreme Court majority wrote the following quote: women are not without electrical, not not allowed, not without electoral, electoral. Or political power. No kidding,” Biden said, as some applauded in support. “MAGA Republicans found out the power of women in 2022. And Donald Trump is going to find out the power of women in 2024.”  Biden referenced his stutter later, proclaiming “nowhere else in the world could a kid with a stutter and modest beginnings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Claymont, Delaware, grow up to sit behind the Resolute Desk.”  He also further passed the torch to Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. For a brief moment, Biden appeared to joke that Harris was already president.  “Selecting Kamala was the very first decision I made before I became, when I became our nominee, and it was the best decision I made my whole career. We’ve not only gotten to know each other, we’ve become close friends. And like many of our best presidents, she was also vice president. That’s a joke,” Biden said. “But she’ll be a president our children could look up to. She’ll be a president respected by world leaders because she already is. She’ll be a president we can all be proud of. And she will be a historic president who puts her stamp on America’s future. This will be the first presidential election since January 6th.”  “I promise I’ll be the best volunteer Harris and Walz’s camp have ever seen. Each of us has a part in the American story,” he said.  “I’ve got five months left in my presidency. I’ve got a lot to do. I intend to get it done,” Biden added.  Fox News’ Kellianne Jones contributed to this report. 

Benjamin Harrison won the White House by receiving the electoral majority, but losing the popular vote

Benjamin Harrison won the White House by receiving the electoral majority, but losing the popular vote

Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States.  Harrison, born on Aug. 20, 1833, was from North Bend, Ohio, about 15 miles outside Cincinnati. Harrison studied at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and graduated in 1852. Upon graduation, he went to Indianapolis, where he practiced law and campaigned for the Republican Party.  In 1853, he married future first lady Caroline Lavinia Scott. The pair had two children, Russell and Mary.  WHAT MAKES A PRESIDENT GREAT? During the Civil War, Harrison served as a colonel of the 70th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, according to The White House Association, and went back to Indianapolis after the war to practice law once again.  In 1876, Harrison ran for political office, but was defeated for governor of Indiana. He went on to serve in the Senate during the 1880s before making his bid for president.  In the presidential election of 1888, Harrison received 100,000 fewer popular votes than incumbent Democrat Grover Cleveland, according to WhiteHouse.gov, but he won the electoral vote 233 to 168.  NOT SINCE 1982: TRUMP VS BIDEN 2024 WILL BE RACE BETWEEN TWO INCUMBENTS Harrison was one of the first to implement a campaign strategy known as “front-porch” campaigns, delivering short speeches to the delegations that visited him.  During his presidency, he showed support to veterans, including through his signing of the Dependent and Disability Pensions Act in 1890, which expanded aid to disabled service men, their widows and dependents, according to the White House Historical Association.  Harrison also added six states to the Union during his presidency, according to the Benjamin Harrison Presidential site.  In 1892, Harrison’s wife, while still serving the role of first lady, passed away.  That same year, Harrison lost the White House to Cleveland. Following his term in the Oval Office, Harrison returned to Indianapolis and continued to practice law.  In 1896, Harrison went on to marry the widowed Mary Dimmick Harrison, the niece of his first wife. They had one daughter, Elizabeth, who was born on Feb. 21, 1897.  Harrison died on March 13, 1901, when he was 67 years old. 

Democratic delegates approve platform with mistake mentioning Biden’s second term

Democratic delegates approve platform with mistake mentioning Biden’s second term

Delegates for the Democratic National Convention voted to approve their 2024 platform without editing the language to reflect that President Biden is not running for re-election.  The 2024 party platform, approved by the delegates on Monday night, explicitly refers to “President Biden and Vice President Harris” and their “progressive agenda” to be implemented over the “next four years.” “This election is a choice between two very different economic visions for America: Donald Trump, who sees the world from his country club at Mar-a-Lago; and Joe Biden, who sees it from kitchen tables in Scranton like the one he grew up around,” the approved platform opens. VP HARRIS PRAISES BIDEN IN SURPRISE REMARKS AT DNC’S OPENING NIGHT: ‘WE ARE FOREVER GRATEFUL TO YOU’ The entire platform is written with the explicit assumption that Biden is the Democratic candidate and Harris is returning as his vice president. Mayor Regina Romero of Tucson, Arizona, co-chair of the DNC platform committee, told the delegates that the platform was crafted “prior to the president passing the torch in an act of love and patriotism” but it offers a “forward-looking vision for our party that echoes the voice of all.” Harris delivered surprise remarks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday night and praised President Biden, calling him “incredible” and saying “we are forever grateful” to him. BIDEN SAYS DNC ANTPI-ISRAEL AGITATORS ‘HAVE A POINT,’ RIPS TRUMP AS ‘NOT WORTHY’ OF OVAL OFFICE “I want to kick us off by celebrating our incredible president, Joe Biden, who will be speaking later tonight,” Harris told the crowd at the United Center on the convention’s opening night. “Joe, thank you for your historic leadership, for your lifetime of service to our nation and for all you will continue to do. We are forever grateful to you. Thank you. Joe.” Biden himself took the DNC stage on the first evening of the convention at about 11:30 p.m. ET, wrapping up after midnight. During his speech, the president touched on a variety of subjects, including strong criticisms of former President Trump and the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. READ THE 2024 DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM – APP USERS, CLICK HERE: Just over a month ago, Biden was considered the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, having won each Democratic primary race unchallenged. However, after a disastrous debate performance against former President Trump in June, Democrats began mounting a pressure campaign for Biden to suspend his re-election bid.  Axios reported earlier this week that Biden is “stunned” about the circumstances and pressure from within his own party to drop out of the race. Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.