Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention ( DNC ) is the party convention of the Democratic Party in the USA , which takes place every four years. During this meeting, the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the Democratic Party are nominated and a party program is determined.
The official nomination of the presidential candidate at the National Convention is preceded by primary elections in various states , so that in many cases the candidate is already certain some time before the meeting and is only officially confirmed there. The DNC, which is held in a different location in the US each time, always takes place in midsummer before the presidential election, which is then held in November.
History and special conventions
The first Democratic National Convention was held in 1832 . In 1968 there were riots in Chicago that led to the Chicago Seven being indicted. The last meeting to date was in Philadelphia in 2016 .
1832
The first Democratic National Convention was held in Baltimore from May 21-23, 1832 . Acting President Andrew Jackson , founder of the Democratic Party, was unanimously elected as a candidate for a second term. Martin Van Buren was put at his side as a vice presidential candidate . The later election was won by Jackson and Van Buren by a large majority.
1968
Richard J. Daley was Mayor of Chicago from 1955 to 1976 . He also played an important role in the Democratic Party, for example in supporting the presidential candidacies of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968. During his tenure, the police cracked down on antiwar demonstrators in 1968. During the Democratic National Convention in August In 1968 there were violent riots on Sunday 25 August over the Vietnam War . Finally, Humphrey, who had the support of the party apparatus, prevailed against the left-wing opponents of the war Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern . The Chicago Seven were indicted for the rioting during the convention in 1969 .
1984
That year, the convention was held in San Francisco from July 16-19. Former Vice President Walter Mondale , who had prevailed in the primaries, was nominated as a presidential candidate . The primary campaign of the black civil rights activist Jesse Jackson , who also spoke at the convention, received special attention . The governor of New York , Mario Cuomo , delivered the keynote speech in which he growing social inequality in the course of Reaganomics attack. His speech is considered to be one of the most rhetorically effective in recent history. For the first time, Geraldine Ferraro, a woman was nominated as a candidate for the vice-presidency. In his nomination speech, Mondale hinted at tax increases, which hurt him in the November election.
1992
The Democratic National Convention was held July 13-17, 1992 in New York City in Madison Square Garden . After the Democrats had clearly failed in the 1980 , 1984 and 1988 elections , efforts were made to create a more modern image and moved further into the middle . The moderate Democrat Bill Clinton , governor of Arkansas , was nominated after being in the primaries against Jerry Brown had prevailed and other candidates, his vice-candidate was Senator Al Gore . The keynote address was given by the Governor of Georgia , Zell Miller ; the nomination speech for Clinton was given by Mario Cuomo . The main themes of the democratic election campaign were training and job creation; Clinton clearly prevailed over incumbent George HW Bush in the presidential election .
2008
The Democratic National Convention was held in Denver, Colorado, August 25-28. There Barack Obama was officially announced as a candidate for the presidency, and Joe Biden was chosen as the candidate for the vice presidency . Obama was the first African American to be nominated by one of the two major parties and then to win the election.
2012
The event took place September 4-6 at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte , North Carolina . On it, Barack Obama was officially nominated to run for president again. The opening speech was given by his wife Michelle Obama . Other speakers included former President Bill Clinton and the Mayor of San Antonio , Julian Castro , who was the first party member of Latin American descent to give the main speech at the Democratic National Convention. The transmission of the live stream on YouTube was interrupted on the first day at the end of it for reasons that were not yet known exactly. Causes are assumed to be in the area of automatic blockages in the event of copyright infringements or their avoidance.
2016
The Democratic National Convention took place in Philadelphia from July 25-28, 2016 , several weeks earlier than the previous two elections. On it, Hillary Clinton was officially elected President and Tim Kaine as Vice President of the Democrats. The WikiLeaks disclosure platform published 20,000 internal e-mails from the party leadership at the start of the party congress. These are said to have been hacked by two Russian groups. Russia itself denies any involvement in the publication of the emails. Debbie Wasserman Schultz , chairman of the party organization, resigned at the beginning of the convention because of the position she had taken early on after the hacked and published emails against Clinton's competitor Sanders.
The Republicans held their 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland a week earlier, July 18-21 .
2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the Democratic National Convention started virtually. The speakers appeared either in a live broadcast from various locations in the United States or via pre-recorded videos. Compared to 2016, when 26 million people watched the debut event on radio and television, the figure was only 18.7 million in 2020.
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Individual evidence
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