Barack Obama on Tuesday will use the Democratic convention in Chicago to anoint Kamala Harris the party’s future and, as the first Black and South Asian woman presidential nominee, the heir to the movement he ignited in 2008.
Obama posted on social media that his Democratic National Convention address will lay out “what’s at stake” and why Harris and her running mate Tim Walz “should be our next president and vice president.”
The first Black person ever elected to the White House, Obama retains massive influence and is a gifted orator.
His convention appearance will take already giddy levels of enthusiasm in Chicago — where outgoing President Joe Biden delivered his own emotion-laden speech late Monday — to a new peak ahead of Harris’s…
