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Watch live as delegates arrive for the final day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago.
Vice president Kamala Harris will make the most important speech of her political life on Thursday 22 August when she accepts the Democratic Party’s nomination for president a month after Joe Biden was forced to exit the race.
Ms Harris’ own presidential ambitions were always clear, but had been undermined by her own shaky 2020 campaign and bumpy vice presidential term. Since being thrust to the top of the ticket, she has tightened the race against Republican Donald Trump.
Her forceful stump speeches have been met by a surge in enthusiasm from voters. If Harris wins on 5 November, she will be the first Black, South Asian woman elected president.
In her speech in Chicago, Ms Harris, 59, plans to talk about her life as the daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother and lay out her plans to tackle rising costs and advance personal freedoms, including abortion rights, aides said.
They said she will also deliver a robust denunciation of former president Trump.
