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US Senator Kamala Harris will unleash her prosecutorial skills against President Donald Trump on Wednesday when she addresses the Democratic National Convention as presidential nominee Joe Biden's running mate.
The vice-presidential nominee, a former prosecutor from California who made history as the first Black woman and Asian-American on a major US presidential ticket, is expected to aggressively press the case against Trump's re-election on November 3.
Harris will likely aim to speak directly to millions of women, young Americans and voters of colour, constituencies the party needs if Biden is to defeat Republican Trump.
The proceedings begin at 9 p.m. ET (5am UAE, on Thursday).
Also speaking on the third night of the party convention are Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016, US Senator Elizabeth Warren, and US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Harris gained prominence in the Senate for her exacting interrogations of Trump nominees, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Attorney General Bill Barr.
The speech will give her the opportunity to outline her background as a child of immigrants from India and Jamaica who as a district attorney, state attorney general, U.S. senator and now vice-presidential candidate shattered gender and racial barriers.
Biden was formally declared the presidential nominee in a virtual roll call on Tuesday, part of an unusual pandemic-era convention during which sombre video remarks have replaced roaring addresses before cheering crowds.
Biden, 77, selected Harris, 55, for his running mate last week, adding diversity and generational balance to his campaign. She will deliver her speech from an austere hotel ballroom in Biden's hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.
Harris provided a preview of her role as Biden's No. 2 last week, when she was introduced as his vice-presidential pick and argued that the case against Trump, 74, and Vice-President Mike Pence, 61, was "open and shut."
Detailing the deaths and economic turmoil caused by the coronavirus outbreak, Harris said, "This is what happens when we elect a guy who just isn't up to the job. Our country ends up in tatters."
Former President Obama will speak to the convention live from the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, where he will make the case that US democracy itself is on the line in November's election, according to a Democratic official.
Obama is also expected to speak about how he worked closely with Biden, then vice president, to lead the country out of the last recession, the official said.
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