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Biden Set to Formally Accept Democratic Party's Presidential Nomination

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   Joe Biden formally accepts the Democratic Party's nomination for the
   U.S. presidency Thursday evening in a speech that is expected to lay
   out his vision for the country as he seeks to defeat President Donald
   Trump in the November 3 election.
   Biden's speech on the fourth and final night of the Democratic National
   Convention comes after nearly 50 years in public office and two failed
   attempts for the White House in 1988 and 2008.
   The speech will be the culmination of a nominating convention that was
   held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic. The convention has
   featured some of the party's highest-profile figures and even prominent
   Republicans who praised Biden in video speeches and issued urgent
   appeals to voters to end what they called Trump's chaotic presidency.
   The 77-year-old former senator and vice president during the Obama
   administration will deliver the speech in an event center in his
   hometown of Wilmington, Delaware. While the center will be mostly
   empty, Biden's speech will be delivered before his largest audience
   since the pandemic forced him off the campaign trail in March.
   U.S. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, a close Biden ally, said the
   speech would likely focus on unifying a divided country.
   "He recognizes this isn't about Donald Trump. It's not about Joe Biden.
   It's about us, and it's about who's going to move us forward in a way
   that reminds us of the best in America, not the worst," Coons said.
   Biden's speech comes one day after Senator Kamala Harris of California
   made history in accepting the Democratic Party's nomination to appear
   alongside Biden as the vice-presidential candidate on the November
   ballot. Harris urged people to fight for "the America we know is
   possible."
   Harris, 55, a former prosecutor, is the fourth woman to be on a major
   U.S. party's national ticket, but the first Black woman and first South
   Asian American. Her mother was a breast cancer scientist who emigrated
   from India. She died in 2009. Harris' father, an economist, came to the
   U.S. from Jamaica.

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