“Half our staff wanted to go outside just to see it, to see if it was really happening, because we're watching it on TV just like everybody else,” one DNC producer said.
Jill and Joe Biden watch fireworks outside the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, at the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention on August 20, 2020.was set to assume the Democratic nomination for president, fulfilling a dream of more than four decades in national politics, was sitting in parts on the backs of trucks, already assembled, waiting to be unloaded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
They had no site, no audience, and two weeks to pull off the size and build of a speech that is supposed to signify the start of a general election, the sweep of a candidate's political career, and the mix of religious fervor and high stakes that the country projects onto presidential campaigns — all of it captured by the weight of a massive stage, perfectly lit, with balloons and bags of confetti and an arena full of delegates, elected officials, and activists chanting the candidate's...
"The nation needed to see him as president, and the setting matched the moment — well-dressed flags, great lighting, an eloquent but not overdone stage," said Greg Hale, a veteran Democratic operative who has produced events for nearly every recent Democratic nominee."Mission accomplished." By the time they moved the acceptance speech to the Chase Center in Wilmington, there had been four versions of the stage already: First, the original setting in Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum, capacity 18,000. Then COVID-19 hit, and they devised a socially distanced convention, also in the Fiserv Forum. Then COVID got worse, and they moved to a big stage in the Wisconsin Center, a smaller venue in Milwaukee.
Earlier this week, a large tree that slightly obscured a Democratic convention sign — a large “D20” banner draped over the west side of the Chase Center — disappeared seemingly overnight, replaced by a pile of fresh mulch. A day later, shrubs and flowering plants appeared in place of the tree. Biden accepts the Democratic Party nomination for president during the last day of the Democratic National Convention at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware on August 20.and overflowing with people who are dying to be in the room, all of them sizing up the access level granted by the lanyards hanging at all times around their necks. For both parties, the level of pageantry and occasional melodrama, seen and unseen, makes it one of the most curious events in American politics.
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