Tim Walz shines as Gaza protesters blocked: Key takeaways from DNC day 3
Al JazeeraUncommitted delegates stage a sit-in over the refusal of a Gaza speaker, Bill Clinton reminds cheering crowds he is younger than Trump, and celebrity fanfare abounds. They write: "The family of the Israeli Hostage that was on the stage tonight, has shown more empathy towards Palestinian Americans and Palestinians, than our candidate… pic.twitter.com/Gc2VcHNPxn — Briahna Joy Gray August 22, 2024 Walz basks in adoration Tim Walz, Minnesota governor and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s running mate, accepted his vice presidential nomination to raucous applause. Clinton takes swipe at Trump’s age and ‘vanity’ “The only personal vanity I want to assert is that I’m still younger than Donald Trump,” former President Bill Clinton said when he took the stage. We just try to do the best we can to save them.” Winfrey took the opportunity to take a swipe at Trump running mate JD Vance’s earlier “cat-ladies” comments saying, “and if the place happens to belong to a childless cat lady, well, we try to get that cat out, too.” In a 2021 interview, Vance referred to Democratic politicians as “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too”. Project 2025 and January 6 rear their heads Democrats brought up the subject of Project 2025, which was developed by conservative organisation The Heritage Foundation and is perceived as a potential roadmap for a second Trump term despite his insistence that it is unrelated to his campaign Holding the Project 2025 book, Colorado Governor Jared Polis said: “On page 562 it says that Donald Trump could use an obscure law from the 1800s to singlehandedly ban abortion in all 50 states even putting doctors in jail.” Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Shult said: “For the people of my state, Project 2025 isn’t just a threat it’s a reality that we battle every day.” Kenan Thomas, comedian and cast member of the popular sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, snuck in several light-hearted jabs at Project 2025.
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