Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic party’s presumptive nominee, is established to accept the party’s nomination and supply his acceptance speech future Thursday during the Democratic Countrywide Convention held in a virtual location. The vice presidential nominee will do the same a night time before.

The party was at first heading to just take area in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but thanks to the pandemic and basic safety worries, Biden and keynote speakers will not be touring to the town and speeches will be streamed from a number of places on video. Biden will acknowledge the nomination from Delaware.

The conference will element just two several hours of primary time programming on every of the 4 evenings. The selection to limit the programming, which will be streamed on the internet and aired by Television set networks, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET each and every evening is one particular of the starkest symptoms nonetheless of how unconventional this year’s accumulating will be in the age of the coronavirus as opposed to previous conventions, normally crammed with a variety of activities and speakers for lots of hours each working day.

The convention’s speaking line-up will include things like previous president Barack Obama and former initially lady Michelle Obama, former president Invoice Clinton and previous Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The Democratic National Convention has declared “Uniting America” as the topic for its four-evening conference that will look for to argue why Democrats think Biden is the prospect to guide the US out of a world disaster, contrasting his leadership design with that of President Trump.  

Each and every night time has a unique sub-concept that in the long run points to that central information: “We the People today,” “Leadership Matters,” “A Much more Fantastic Union” and “America’s Assure.”  

A scaled-back function: Democrats declared in June that they would scale again this summer’s conference considerably and advised point out delegates not to travel to Milwaukee. Officers experienced presently pushed back again the convention by a month as the state grappled with spiking coronavirus circumstances and fatalities.

In July, organizers educated point out parties and conference delegates that they would let for approximately two months of virtual voting ahead of the convention.

The Democratic National Convention Committee also claimed that users of Congress must not plan to vacation to this summer’s celebration convention, following its previous direction that all members of condition delegations ought to prepare to participate this calendar year remotely.