Democratic Nationwide Conference 2024 — Day 1

Trump shared pictures purporting to point out followers of popstar Taylor Swift sporting “Swifties for Trump” shirts and mentioned he would welcome their assist.

The issue: Lots of the pictures Trump shared had been generated by synthetic intelligence and didn’t present actual folks in any respect, NBC Information reported.

One other photograph Trump shared in a Reality Social submit on Sunday appeared to point out an AI rendering of Swift wearing an Uncle Sam costume in entrance of an American flag.

“Taylor needs you to vote for Donald Trump,” learn a caption laid over the picture.

“I settle for!” Trump wrote within the submit above the pictures, which had initially been posted by accounts on X, previously Twitter.

Swift has but to endorse any presidential candidate within the 2024 contest.

Swift endorsed then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden within the 2020 election.

— Kevin Breuninger

Leaders of among the largest labor unions within the nation will ship a joint deal with on the DNC stage tonight in assist of Harris, in line with the conference.

The six union leaders set to talk collectively are:

• Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Workers
• April Verrett, president of the Service Workers Worldwide Union
• Brent Booker, common president of the Laborers’ Worldwide Union of North America
• Kenneth Cooper, worldwide president of the Worldwide Brotherhood of Electrical Employees
• Claude Cummings Jr., president of the Communications Employees of America
• Elizabeth Shuler, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

United Auto Employees President Shawn Fain, who earlier this month campaigned with Harris and Walz on the union’s headquarters, will ship a solo deal with later within the night.

Notably absent from the lineup of union leaders tonight is Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, who in July grew to become the primary Teamster to ever converse at a Republican conference.

“Sean O’Brien has not acquired an invitation in response to our request to talk on the DNC,” Teamsters spokesperson Kara Deniz advised CNBC in an e mail.

Responding to CBS Information’ reporting that the Teamsters will nonetheless be represented on the DNC stage tonight, Deniz mentioned: “I have no idea in regards to the presence.”

– Josephine Rozzelle

Trump attacked the DNC for presenting its occasion platform as an agenda for President Biden‘s second time period, quite than updating it for the Harris marketing campaign.

“Within the JUST RELEASED Democrat Platform, they point out Crooked Joe Biden’s ‘second Time period’ over 20 instances,” Trump wrote on Reality Social. “It reveals that the Platform shouldn’t be that vital to them once they will not even make the change.”

The DNC Platform Committee on Sunday launched its 92-page coverage doc, which it had written and handed on July 16, 5 days earlier than Biden dropped out of the race. The doc highlights Biden’s first-term achievements and plans for his now-abandoned reelection bid.

The doc refers to Biden’s second time period no less than 20 instances.

Trump has repeatedly attacked Biden on the marketing campaign path though his election opponent is now Kamala Harris.

When Trump was operating as an incumbent in 2020, the RNC determined to not undertake a brand new coverage platform and mentioned it will as a substitute renew its proposals in 2024.

— Rebecca Picciotto

Trump is countering the DNC kickoff and the current unveiling of Harris’ financial plan with an announcement about his personal agenda to “unleash American power and decrease prices for American households,” the Republican’s marketing campaign mentioned Monday morning.

The marketing campaign mentioned in a press launch that Trump would protect the tax cuts he signed into regulation in 2017, whereas accusing Harris of eager to let the cuts expire after 2025.

The press launch additionally claimed Harris needs to ban gas-powered vehicles. Each accusations included hyperlinks to articles from 2019, when Harris was a Democratic presidential candidate.

Trump is scheduled to carry an economy- and energy-focused marketing campaign occasion at an tools producer in York, Pennsylvania, on Monday at 3 p.m. ET. Trump’s operating mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, will talk about power and the financial system in Philadelphia earlier Monday afternoon, the Trump marketing campaign mentioned.

— Kevin Breuninger

Shares of Trump’s social media firm on Monday touched their lowest worth since they started buying and selling on the Nasdaq after a merger practically 5 months in the past.

The current slide of Trump Media inventory got here after Harris changed Biden because the Democratic nominee, upending the race that Trump had beforehand been favored to win.

The corporate, which owns the Reality Social app platform and trades below the inventory ticker DJT, this month reported a lack of over $16 million for the fiscal quarter ending June 30, whereas posting simply $837,000 in income in the identical interval.

Trump, the bulk proprietor of Trump Media, has additionally resumed periodically posting on the social media website X.

Trump final week participated in a live-streamed interview on X with the platform’s proprietor, Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

— Kevin Breuninger

The next VIPs will ship speeches tonight, in line with a spokesperson who simply briefed reporters at a conference press convention:

• UAW President Shawn Fain
• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
• Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
• Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.
• Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas
• Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y.
• Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear
• Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga.
• Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.
• First girl Jill Biden
• President Joe Biden

– Josephine Rozzelle

Walz delivered temporary remarks on the Pennsylvania delegation breakfast, the place he targeted on defending freedoms, one of many major themes of this yr’s DNC.

“We hold speaking about freedom. Freedom to make your individual health-care choices, freedom to learn your individual books, freedom to ship your children to high school with out them being shot useless of their classroom. These are freedoms, too,” Walz mentioned.

Walz didn’t point out Trump by title, however nonetheless hinted at contrasts between the Democratic and Republican tickets.

“Image the opposite facet making an attempt to do these items, displaying a bit of kindness, displaying a bit of decency, speaking to a baby, lifting up somebody, comforting somebody who involves a rally and say they simply misplaced their dad and mom, no matter it is likely to be.”

— Rebecca Picciotto

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is pushing again on a few of Trump’s frequent financial speaking factors, together with that the inventory market carried out higher throughout his presidency.

“The Dow and the S&P had been worse below Donald Trump than they had been below Biden-Harris,” Buttigieg advised MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” this morning. “Power manufacturing, one of many belongings you hear Republicans discuss probably the most about, home power manufacturing is larger below Biden-Harris than it was below Trump.”

Each indexes hit file highs in July, and the USA produced extra crude oil in 2023 than any nation in historical past, in line with the U.S. Power Info Administration.

“He cannot afford for us to be speaking about that, so each couple of days he’ll blurt out one thing outrageous in order that we’re speaking about that as a substitute,” Buttigieg mentioned.

– Josephine Rozzelle

Unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning on spending a lot of this week in courtroom, not on the marketing campaign path, as he fights for poll entry in a number of states for his long-shot White Home bid.

Kennedy is scheduled to testify Tuesday in a Harrisburg, Pennslyvania, courtroom, the place a Democratic Social gathering-aligned group has challenged the signatures of his poll petitions and the legitimacy of his said dwelling deal with in New York.

Pennsylvania is seen as a key state — and presumably the important thing state — to win for the candidacies of Harris and Trump.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Kennedy plans to testify at an attraction of a poll entry case in New York, the place a decide final week ordered him faraway from the state’s poll after discovering his claimed dwelling deal with in Westchester County was not a “bona fide and bonafide residence, however merely a ‘sham’ deal with that he assumed for the aim of sustaining his voter registration.”

— Dan Mangan

The president and first girl will each take the stage tonight for speeches which might be vastly completely different from what they deliberate to present only a month in the past.

Aiming to cement the president’s legacy of a decadeslong profession in public service, the primary girl will honor her husband’s “power and character” in her prime-time speech, an individual accustomed to her remarks advised NBC Information.

The president will then make a case for electing Harris and tout their administration’s achievements, a number of Biden officers advised NBC Information. Biden may even emphasize what he believes to be a grave risk to democracy if Trump returns to the White Home.

“After saving democracy in 2020, President Biden is decided to defeat the risk to democracy posed by Donald Trump,” one official advised NBC Information.

— Josephine Rozzelle

The Harris marketing campaign has launched a brand new, bilingual WhatsApp channel referred to as “Latinos con Harris-Walz,” designed to attach with the nation’s roughly 36 million voters who determine as Hispanic or Latino.

“Now greater than ever, we should meet Latinos the place they’re, and inventive packages like this WhatsApp channel are how this marketing campaign will attain the voters who will resolve this election and win in November,” mentioned Maca Casado, the marketing campaign’s Hispanic media director, in a press release.

WhatsApp is the #1 hottest social media platform amongst Hispanic and Spanish-speaking people, in line with the Pew Analysis Heart.

— Christina Wilkie

The “For the Individuals” theme will probably be targeted on President Joe Biden’s “management and legacy as a historic president who put the American folks’s curiosity above his personal,” the Democratic conference committee says in a press release.

The day’s lineup may even spotlight the occasion’s view that “whereas Donald Trump places himself first, Democrats are preventing for the American folks.”

Conference chair Minyon Moore mentioned the 4 days of occasions are “a possibility to convey the story of our occasion to the American folks — not simply the story of what we have achieved below the Biden-Harris administration, however how the Harris-Walz ticket is planning to construct on that historic file for a brand new approach ahead into the future.”

— Christina Wilkie

Harris and her chosen operating mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, revived the custom of U.S. presidential marketing campaign bus excursions, using by Pennsylvania the day earlier than the Democratic Nationwide Conference.

Lengthy a staple of American campaigning, bus excursions have fallen out of favor in current cycles. Neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton did a lot bus touring through the 2016 presidential race. 4 years later, bus excursions had been placed on maintain completely because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

— Christina Wilkie

The president and first girl will depart for California late Monday after the White Home chief delivers his speech on the conference.

The White Home day by day schedule says the Bidens will fly from Chicago to Santa Barbara, then take a chopper to Santa Ynez. A neighborhood information outlet, Noozhawk, stories that airspace is restricted across the space for the remainder of the week.

The Bidens’ journey plans underscore the difficult position that Joe Biden at present occupies inside the Democratic Social gathering, which is getting ready to “cross the torch” to Harris later this week.

It is also a reminder of the broader choices out there to a president who doesn’t must spend all his or her additional time on the marketing campaign path operating for reelection.

— Christina Wilkie

As Democrats collect in Chicago, the 2 Republican nominees will spend the day at separate marketing campaign occasions in battleground Pennsylvania.

Trump will ship remarks at an “financial and power” occasion in York at 3 p.m. ET.

Vance will probably be in Philadelphia, the place he’ll converse on the identical matter at 1 p.m., in line with the Trump marketing campaign.

The New York Instances polling common reveals Trump and Harris neck-and-neck within the state, with Harris up one proportion level, 49% to 48%, as of Sunday.

— Christina Wilkie

As tens of hundreds of protesters fill the streets, a lot of them pro-Palestinian demonstrators, members of the Uncommitted Nationwide Motion say the DNC has agreed to carry an official panel right now at 4 p.m. ET on “Palestinian Human Rights within the Democratic Social gathering.”

The group launched this speaker checklist:

• Layla Elabed, founding father of Uncommitted Nationwide Motion
• Hala Hijazi, a Palestinian-American occasion organizer
• Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric intensive care surgeon
• Former U.S. Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich.
• Keith Ellison, Minnesota lawyer common
• Jim Zogby, president of Arab American Institute

“We thank the DNC for recognizing this pivotal situation and stay devoted to pushing VP Harris to cease offering weapons for Israel’s assault on Gaza,” the motion mentioned in a press release saying the panel.

— Christina Wilkie

As Democrats descended on Chicago, they had been greeted by messages projected onto the facet of Donald Trump’s branded skyscraper, Trump Tower. NBC Information reporter Alex Tabet captured a number of of them.

— Alex Tabet