After being rescheduled from July
to August, the much awaited Democratic National Convention (DNC) is finally set
to commence on Monday, August 17. The four-day event, which was initially planned
to be hosted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is now primarily a virtual event due to
coronavirus pandemic.

The 2020 Democratic National
Convention is the presidential nominating convention where delegates of the
United States Democratic Party will formally choose the party’s nominees for
president and vice president in the upcoming 2020 United States presidential elections.

The presumptive nominee for the
post of president is Joe Biden who has chosen California Senator, Kamala Harris
as his running mate. Biden and Harris plan to address the DNC from an events
center in Biden’s hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, reported CBS News.

The convention will be attended by
a number of democratic party delegates with the keynote speakers being former
President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama
and Jill Biden for the first three nights. On the last night of the
convention, presumtive nominee Joe Biden will deliver his acceptance speech.

The convention will
have a line-up of speeches by prominent leaders and senators over the four days.
Among the speakers at the DNC will be Senator Bernie Sanders who was also one
of the nominees for the post of President this year before he suspended his
campaign in April. Interestingly, John Kasich, a 2016 Republican candidate for
president who has been critical of Trump will also give a speech at the event.

Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), US Representative for New York’s 14th
congressional district and the youngest woman to ever serve the US Congress
will also be speaking at the DNC.

Other personalities
attending the convention include former President Bill Clinton, 2016 Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary Clinton,
former acting US Attorney General Sally Yates, Senator Chuck Schumer,
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Apart from the senators
and political personalities, the DNC will also see professionals from different
fields and frontline workers who are at the forefront of battling the COVID-19
pandemic. Among these are Gerald Lang, who is an official at the United Auto
Workers Union; Florida Paramedic Aldo Martinez, Elementary school teacher Luz
Chaparro Hernandez and retired educator Julie Buckholt.

The themes at the convention include, “We the People”
on Monday, focused around Americans rising up to take the country back by
singling out what the campaign calls the nation’s three crises: the
pandemic, the struggling economy and racial injustice; “Leadership Matters” on
Tuesday which will feature small-business owners, front-line health care
workers, racial justice leaders, veterans, activists and others; “A More
Perfect Union” on Wednesday to tout Biden’s “Build Back Better”
plans for the economy and recovering from the pandemic and “America’s
Promise” on Thursday that will cast Biden as a man of character,
decency, compassion and resilience – “a fighter” who gets
back up. The night will lean into Biden’s biography and his long record in
Washington, according to the schedule released by the
Democratic National Convention Committee.