Colorado Goes to the DNC

Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and Joe Biden wave to crowd on stage at the 2024 National Democratic Convention.

August 19, 2024 – Chicago, Illinois: Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden after President Biden’s speech on the first night of the Democratic National Convention. Photo by Joeff Davis

Jared Polis, Chicago DNC 2024, Photo Jared Polis Facebook page

Governor Jared Polis spoke on the third night of the convention. Coming on stage to cheers from the crowd, carrying a hard-cover copy of the infamous right-wing political playbook known as Project 2025. Polis quoted the book in parts where it outlined how the next republican administration could strip away abortion rights at a national level, imprison doctors, target IVF and contraceptives, and mandate that states report miscarriages to the federal government. This line of messaging was a common theme of night three at the Democratic National Convention.

“Page 451 says the only legitimate family is a married mother and father, where only the father works. You know what? I’m gonna rip that one out and share it with undecided voters so they can better understand what’s at stake with this election,” Polis said while folding up a torn-out page and placing it in his pocket.

In an attempt to appeal to younger voters, Polis described himself as a “Redditor, a gamer, and a Swifty”. He ended his speech by combining Kamala Harris’s “We Won’t Go Back” catchphrase with the lyric “like never ever, ever” from the 2012 Taylor Swift hit breakup song.

Summer Nettles of Greater Purpose Media posts about her time at the Democratic National Convention:

Joseph Salazar, executive director of Colorado Rising, posts an up-close view of Colorado delegates casting their vote for Kamala Harris:

brother jeff’s Free Think Zone was also in Chicago.

Senator Michael Bennett

President and First Lady Michelle and Barack Obama

Covering the Protests

The convention was not without its protestors, while some were the right-wing Christian nationalists one would expect, a larger, younger crowd of protestors were calling on Kamala Harris and democrats to take a harder stance on sending weapons to Israel and demand an immediate ceasefire. Pro-Palestinian protestors clashed with police on Tuesday night outside of the Chicago Israeli consulate leading to 56 arrests.

A young woman wearing a hijab and a keffiyeh speaks into a microphone to pro-Palestine protestors outside of the DNC. Protest signs read: End U.S. Aid to Israel.

August 19, 2024 – Chicago, Illinois: The March on the DNC 2024. Photo by Joeff Davis

While Democratic Party loyalists have argued that protestors must want a second Trump term, a sentiment echoed by Kamala Harris in Michigan last week, history would show that Democratic nominees fare better in elections when they listen and capitulate to anti-war protests. It’s with this knowledge and hope that the Harris administration is willing to listen and alter course that has pro-Palestine protestors gathering in the thousands outside of the DNC, and not the RNC.

Former Delegate at Elected Bernie Sanders National Delegate 2016 Colorado, Former Deputy State Public Defender at Colorado State Public Defender and retired Attorney, Jeri Shepherd captured the Dixie Chicks and PINK, along with Ilhan Omar.