here at the Democratic National Convention I’m at what feels like the Olympics of us politics in Chicago where the city’s packed with delegates media tourists tons of security and of course coconut trees and kamla Harris swag this DNC celebrates the nomination of kamla Harris as the party’s presidential candidate who turned the party’s finances around after Joe Biden left the race the pass the torch to a new generation Among the Stars at this year’s convention were expecting to see Julia Louie dfus Billy Porter and Mindy Kaling so what’s the D seed like the Republicans Democrats hold a convention each presidential election to officially nominate their candidate the vast majority of some 4700 delegates already picked Harris virtually making this DNC unique in that their votes are symbolic Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden are expected to be tonight’s Headliners and Harris should be there too former president Barack Obama will speak on Tuesday and Harris will accept her nomination Thursday night in a prime time speech headed to Reuters for the latest