Following the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, interim party Chair Donna Brazile is taking over some of the duties, including addressing the convention delegates Tuesday night.
She is vice chairwoman of the DNC for voter registration and participation, and will now replace Wasserman Schultz as interim chair through the election.
Over the weekend, as controversy swirled around a trove of leaked internal Democratic Party emails, Brazile tried to calm tensions between Bernie Sanders supporters and those of Hillary Clinton.
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The Secret Service issued a statement late Tuesday night saying four people had attempted to climb a fence outside the Democratic National Convention and breach a protected area.
All four were promptly arrested before they could enter the stadium.
The full statement:
On 7/26/16 at approximately 8:30pm, four individuals climbed over an outer perimeter fence and attempted to enter a Secret Service designated secure zone. The four individuals were immediately arrested without incident by Philadelphia Police and Secret Service personnel. At no point did the individuals enter the Wells Fargo Center. The four individuals will be charged with 18 U.S. Code 1752, Entering Restricted Area. They have been transported to the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center. Their initial appearance before a magistrate judge will be held on Wednesday 7/27/16.
It was a night for reexamining history as former President Clinton took center stage to reintroduce the nation to his wife, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
While Clinton walked viewers through a romantic retelling of the couple's relationship and Hillary Clinton's record, Republican officials and commentators attempted to tear off the rose-tinted glasses.
Sean Spicer, the Republican National Committee's chief strategist and spokesman, poked Bill Clinton for skipping some of the blemishes on the Clintons' collective record.
Robin Tyler and Diane Olson of North Hills had gathered up most of the night's placards around their electric scooters.
"We've come out of the feminist movement, the anti-war movement, the LGBT movement. We've come out of so many movements and we know who the real thing is, and Hillary Clinton isn't making up her background. She has worked for decades on behalf of people, for decades to change things," said Tyler, 74.
Tyler and Olson sued to challenge California’s same-sex marriage ban in 2004, after being repeatedly denied at the Beverly Hills courthouse. A California Supreme Court judge ruled in their favor, and when Tyler and Olson married in 2008 they were the first same-sex couple to do so in Los Angeles County.
“In the spring of 1971, I met a girl,” Bill Clinton said Tuesday evening.
That was the first clue: This would be a Bill Clinton speech like few others. Bill Clinton is the Democratic Party’s acknowledged master of political persuasion. After his electrifying speech defending Barack Obama’s economic policies in 2012, Obama joked that he needed to name Clinton his “secretary of explaining stuff.”
But this speech was different. This time, Clinton was acting as a character witness for his wife.
After a rousing speech from her husband and a musical flourish from Alicia Keys, along came the nominee.
She appeared via video stream, figuratively breaking through a montage of all 44 male presidents.
"I can’t believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling," Clinton said from New York. "This is really your victory, this is really your night."
You people have made history. And you're going to make history again in November because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president....
At the opening of his Democratic National Convention speech, former President Bill Clinton mourned the death of Mark Weiner, a major Democratic fundraiser, Hillary Clinton supporter and provider of merchandise to the Democratic National Convention. Weiner died Tuesday in Rhode Island.
Weiner, 62, died in Newport as he prepared to head to the convention in Philadelphia, former Providence Mayor Joe Paolino said. He had wanted to see the former president, his longtime friend, address the convention Tuesday, Paolino told the Providence Journal.
In 2012, Bill Clinton arguably helped put President Obama on a path to reelection with a convention speech testifying to his stewardship of the nation out of recession, and on a path to economic recovery.
On Tuesday, the former president did away with the wonky-yet-folksy analysis that earned him the moniker "secretary of explainin' stuff" and opted for a far more personal, yet still folksy, account of his wife's lifetime of public service.
In a speech of typical Clintonian length to end a more harmonious second day of the convention, Clinton began with the story of how he and Hillary Rodham first met, as law students at Yale. After dating, it took several proposal attempts until "I married my best friend."