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Excerpt from www.theguardian.com
Good morning and welcome to our coverage of the Democratic National Convention with Barack and Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders due to address the crowds in Chicago later following a rapturous reception for Joe Biden’s speech on Monday.
The Obamas’ endorsement of Kamala Harris in July was seminal in securing the Democratic presidential nomination for the current US vice-president, helping to bypass a potentially ugly internal fight.
As Ed Pilkington writes, today’s convention will also see almost 5,000 delegates from all 50 states and US territories will gather on the floor of the United Center to hold what is being billed as a “ceremonial roll call” symbolically to hand the Democratic nomination to Harris.
The event will be purely figurative: Harris was already officially elevated into that position two weeks ago through an online vote of delegates.
