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How to Watch The 2024 Democratic National Convention

Viewers can watch the event both on television and through streaming platforms from home.

Network and cable channels including ABC, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, Spectrum News and more will all broadcast coverage of the events. The conventions run all day, but TV coverage mainly highlights the primetime speeches and earlier events, with commentary from anchors and analysts in between.

In addition to TV streamers like Hulu Live TV and YouTube TV, streaming platforms such as Paramount Plus, Peacock, and Max, as well as news channels and publication websites, will broadcast the events.

Additionally, several live streams are available on YouTube and X, including those from official DNC channels.

Bill Clinton Pronounces Kamala Harris’ Name Wrong During DNC Speech

Former President Bill Clinton mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris’ name during his speech in support of her candidacy at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Wednesday night.

The pronunciation of Harris’ name has sparked tense debates over the past few weeks after she entered the presidential race following President Joe Biden’s exit. However, the pronunciation of her name, which is “Comma-la,” has been a heated topic for years.

Republicans’ mispronunciation of Harris’ name, including Republican South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace’s heated conversation on a CNN panel last Thursday, has been called out over the years for being part of a racist attack on Harris, the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president and the Democratic nominee for president.

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Clinton Ditches Teleprompter

Why Bill Clinton Ignored Teleprompter During DNC Speech: ist

A political journalist has weighed in on Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, sharing a theory about why the former president appeared to be referencing notes on paper, rather than reading a teleprompter.

Susan Milligan has covered politics for the New York Daily News and the Boston Globe among others, and was a 2010 fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School.

After Clinton’s speech, she posted on X, formerly Twitter, “Bill Clinton is reading not from a teleprompter, but pages of actual paper. Which, for those of us who started covering him in the ’92 campaign, means he didn’t finish his last version of his speech in time to load it on the teleprompter.”

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Bill Clinton Speaks At DNC

Bill Clinton, ‘Explainer-in-Chief,’ Lifts Harris and Belittles Trump at DNC

Former President Bill Clinton delivered a speech at the DNC on Wednesday that hailed Kamala Harris “the president of joy,” took aim at Donald Trump’s age, and resumed the role that former President Barack Obama had assigned to him 12 years ago: Explainer-in-Chief.

“If you vote for this team, if you can get them elected and let them bring in this breath of fresh air, you’ll be proud of it for the rest of your life,” Clinton said of the Harris-Walz ticket. “Your children will be proud of it, your grandchildren will be proud of it.”

Obama first gave Clinton the ‘explainer’ nickname after Clinton delivered a blockbuster convention speech in 2012 that helped get Obama re-elected to the White House. In a way that voters understood, Clinton offered a detailed rebuke of Mitt Romney’s economic plans—remarks that would become among some of his most memorable, and that Obama would go onto mention repeatedly at campaign stops that election cycle.

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WATCH: Winners and Losers From Day 3 Of The DNC

Winners And Losers From Day 3 Of The DNC

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accepted the Democratic Party’s 2024 vice presidential nomination Wednesday in his debut on the national stage, painting himself as a Midwestern everyman who could appeal to a broad cross section of voters in November.

Walz delivered the keynote address on a night with a speaker lineup featuring former President Bill Clinton and a new generation of rising Democratic Party stars.

Walz’s speech set the stage for the final night of the convention Thursday, when Vice President Kamala Harris will accept the party’s nomination for president.

Here are winners and losers from the third night of the Democratic convention in Chicago.

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Oprah DNC Speech More Influential Than Michelle Obama: Republican Pollster

Republican pollster Frank Luntz was blown away by Oprah Winfrey’s speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), calling her the most influential speaker of the week.

Winfrey made a surprise appearance at the DNC on Wednesday night and gave a speech targeting the GOP presidential ticket of former President Donald Trump and Senator JD Vance while encouraging independents to cast their ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris. Winfrey, a known skilled orator, has been floated as a potential presidential contender, and her speech energized the DNC crowd.

Following Winfrey’s speech, Luntz said that he was “wrong” in thinking former first lady Michelle Obama’s speech on Tuesday would resonate most with voters.

READ MORE from Newsweek’s Jenni Fink

DNC Day 3 Highlights

Oprah Winfrey made a surprise appearance at the third night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago ahead of Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz’s energetic keynote address.

Follow Newsweek’s live updates on DNC Day 4.