OnPolitics: Get excited people, it's convention time

Monday, August 17

OnPolitics: Just a heads up that the conventions are now

You still have time to catch up on the news leading up to the conventions, which get started today.

Democrats will descend virtually Monday evening for the first night of the Democratic National Convention, putting forward a unified face by highlighting speakers from both sides of the aisle who support presumptive nominee Joe Biden.

Democrats are using Monday to show support from opposite ends of the political spectrum, with speeches from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who was Biden's final primary opponent, and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a 2016 Republican candidate for president who has been critical of President Donald Trump.

Monday will be an appeal to progressives who backed Sanders and moderate Republican voters like Kasich who are dissatisfied with Trump.

They and several other speakers will be followed by Monday's keynote speaker: former first lady Michelle Obama. The evening's theme, "We the People," will focus on "Americans rising up to take our country back," Democrats said, by singling out what the campaign calls the nation's three crises: the pandemic, the struggling economy and racial injustice.

Get caught up before tonight

•	Democratic National Convention 2020
•	DNC convention will have nightly themes
•	Donald Trump to campaign during Democratic National Convention
•	Jennifer Hudson, Billie Eilish, John Legend and others will perform at DNC
•	DNC lineup of speakers headlined by the Obamas