Obama, Biden, Kaine Speeches on Tap at DNC
Updated | President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will be center stage at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Wednesday night. There, the delegates on Tuesday officially tapped Hillary Clinton as the Democrats' nominee, making her the first woman presidential candidate to represent a major political party.
Clinton's recently chosen running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, will introduce himself for the first time on a national stage. The three big speeches could overshadow the other guests of the night, as happened when first lady Michelle Obama spoke on Monday and when former President Bill Clinton did so on Tuesday.
The gavel time is scheduled for 4 p.m. Eastern time. The day's theme will be "Working Together." The following is the list of the day's speakers.
Daniel Driffin, HIV/AIDS activist from Georgia
Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund
Sheila Jackson Lee, U.S. representative of Texas
Michelle Lujan Grisham, U.S. representative of New Mexico
Eleanor Holmes Norton, U.S. representative of District of Columbia
Adam Schiff, U.S. representative of California
Maxine Waters, U.S. representative of California
Ilyse Hogue, president of National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
Andrew Gillum, mayor of Tallahassee
Judy Chu, U.S. representative of California and chairwoman of Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
Brooks Bell, young tech entrepreneur from North Carolina
Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City
Ben Ray Luján, U.S. representative of New Mexico and chairman of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader
Star Jones, actress
Karen Weaver, mayor of Flint, Michigan
G.K. Butterfield, U.S. representative of North Carolina and chairman of Congressional Black Caucus
Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY's List
Harry Reid, Senate Democratic leader
Gavin Newsom, California lieutenant governor
Ruben Gallego, U.S. representative of Arizona
Jamie Dorff, whose husband, an Army pilot from Minnesota, died while on a search and rescue mission in northern Iraq
Mike Duggan, mayor of Detroit
Martin O'Malley, former governor of Maryland and onetime Clinton presidential rival
Sigourney Weaver, actress
Jerry Brown, governor of California
Lee Daniels, director
Christine Leinonen, mother of a victim killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando
Brandon Wolf and Jose Arraigada, survivors of the Orlando attack
Chris Murphy, U.S. senator of Connecticut
Erica Smegielski, whose mother Dawn was the principal killed in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut
Charles Ramsey, former Philadelphia police commissioner
Angela Bassett, actress
Felicia Sanders and Polly Sheppard, two survivors of the 2015 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal in Charleston, South Carolina
Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly, former Congresswoman and her husband
John Hutson, rear admiral
Kristen Kavanaugh, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former Marine Corps Captain who deployed to Iraq
Leon Panetta, former congressman and secretary of defense
Sherrod Brown, U.S. senator of Ohio
Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden
Joe Biden, outgoing vice president of the United States
Kasim Reed, mayor of Atlanta
Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City
Tim Kaine, Clinton's running mate
Sharon Belkofer, whose son was killed when a suicide bomber detonated a minibus in Kabul, Afghanistan
Barack Obama, outgoing president of the United States
The musician Lenny Kravitz is expected to perform. Viewers can follow along with 24-hour coverage on CNN or with live coverage on CBSN. PBS and NPR together are offering coverage from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. each night of the convention. And the DNC's website and YouTube channel provides a live stream online. All major cable news networks are covering the event.
This has been updated to include the official list of speakers.
