Democrats worry that Biden is unknown to many. The convention aims to change that
LA TimesJoe Biden talks with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, left; NAACP President Derrick Johnson; Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner; Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo and Jamira Burley, a social justice advocate, during the 2020 Democratic National Convention. “But there wasn’t a lot of detailed painting in the lines of the basic story.” 1 / 22 Actress and activist Eva Longoria, left, introduces former First Lady Michelle Obama to address the convention. 2 / 22 Joe Biden has a conference call with, from left, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot; NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson; Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr; Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo; and social justice advocate Jamira Burley during the convention. Gretchen Whitmer talking of Biden’s effort to save autoworkers’ jobs to Michelle Obama declaring “I know Joe” and praising him as “a profoundly decent man” who “listens” and “will tell the truth,” the Democrats began a four-day convention effort to fill in the portrait in terms favorable to their presumptive nominee.
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