James Taylor is bumped from DNC lineup to get Biden on the podium before midnight

James Taylor was cut from what was supposed to be the key musical performance on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

It came amid chaotic delays and as organizers tried to stop Joe Biden’s speech being pushed back further.

The veteran singer-songwriter had been scheduled to appear after 9pm local time.

He would have perfromed following Jill Biden’s speech and before Ashley Biden, who introduced her father as the final speaker of the night.

Even after Taylor was cut the president did not get on stage util about 10.30pm local time.

Earlier, Taylor had been seen rehearsing, giving a hint of what the crowd missed.

Because of the raucous applause interrupting speaker after speaker, we ultimately skipped elements of our program to ensure we could get to President Biden as quickly as possible so that he could speak directly to the American people.

Donald Trump suggested Kamala Harris was ‘laughing inside’ at the way Joe Biden made his swansong speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The 81-year-old’s farewell remarks were pushed to primetime into the dead of night after chaos and a string of delays in Chicago.

Trump said Harris has ‘gotten rid’ of the laugh he has frequently mocked, but suggested the VP would have been reveling

You see her now with a smile and she’s gotten rid of the laugh over the last couple of days.. haven’t seen her laugh. But I’ll bet inside she was laughing last night when she saw the way Joe Biden left

T-Pain will headline a Thursday night Democratic National Convention after-party, DailyMail.com confirmed Tuesday, as celebrities have flocked to Chicago to back Vice President Kamala Harris.

The singer and rapper – known for a number of auto-tuned hits – will perform alongside the Urban Art Orchestra and ELEW at the historic Ramova Theatre.

The invite-only fete will support Party at the Polls, a non-partisan non-profit that encourages ‘parties’ to be held near early voting locations.

By Morgan Phillips, Congress Reporter at the DNC in Chicago

Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear accused Donald Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance of ‘making himself the victim’ in comments to DailyMail.com.

Beshear had first started the tiff by calling to mind comments Vance made in 2021 about abortion.

‘JD Vance calls pregnancy resulting from rape ‘inconvenient.’ Inconvenience is traffic. I mean, it is, make him go through this,’ Beshear said Tuesday.

‘What the hell is this? Why is @AndyBeshearKY wishing that a member of my family would get raped?!? What a disgusting person,’ Vance wrote on X.

‘It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term,’ Vance said at the time, but “whether a child should be allowed to live even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient.’

Beshear then was forced to walk back his comments Tuesday, telling DailyMail.com he didn’t mean any harm.

It’s ridiculous. And more than that, it’s an attempt to deflect. Obviously, I don’t wish anybody harm, nor would I ever but what this is about is J.D. Vance trying to make himself the victim.

J.D. Vance, like like myself, is a man who will never have to go through the things that we are talking about. All I wish is that he have enough empathy to put himself in somebody else’s position. But no, this is an attempt to create controversy. It’s ridiculous. Nobody means anybody any harm.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Chicago, Illinois

Sen. J.D. Vance continues to take hits at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s military record after Republicans jumped on attack lines accusing him of lying about his time in service.

Vance sarcastically theorized that Democrats chose Chicago for the Convention this year so Walz could say he has visited a war zone.

Speaking in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday, the Ohio Senator and running mate of Donald Trump said:

My little theory about why they decided to have the convention in Chicago: Tim Walz has been going around saying that he served in war and maybe they did it in Chicago so he could accurately say he visited a combat zone.

Vance and others accuse Walz of stretching the truth about being deployed to an active war zone when he was in the Army National Guard.

The site of the Democratic Convention is in Chicago, which is considered one of the crime capital cities of the U.S. and has seen a massive spike in murders in recent years.

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Bay Area lawyer Nicole Shanahan, admitted on a podcast released Tuesday that they’re thinking about dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing former President Donald Trump.

Shanahan appeared on an episode of Tom Bilyeu’s Impact Theory and said she and RFK Jr. have two options – they could stay in the race and hope to get 5 percent of the vote to officially start a new political party.

‘But we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Walz presidency,’ the former Democrat said. ‘Because we draw votes from Trump or we draw somehow more votes from Trump.’

‘Or we walk away right now and join forces with, with Donald Trump and and, you know, we walk away from that and we explain to our base why we’re making this decision,’ she added.

The Washington Post reported last week that Kennedy had tried to get in touch with Harris to see if she’d be interested in giving him a Cabinet gig in exchange for an endorsement.

The Democrats said publicly they have no interest in bartering with Kennedy, whose famous family members endorsed President Joe Biden and now Harris.

Trump, on the other hand, was heard on the phone last month suggesting he could throw RFK Jr. a bone.

Shanahan said on Impact Theory that the ex-president ‘has taken genuine, sincere interest in our policies around chronic disease.’

‘He takes it seriously. For that reason, I think it behooves us to sit and see if we can actually make some change,’ the vice presidential candidate added.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor for DailyMail.com in Chicago

President Joe Biden’s historic letter announcing he was ending his campaign left out a crucial element – an endorsement – longtime Rep. James C. Clyburn told him.

Clyburn is a loyalist who helped deliver South Carolina to Biden in 2020 to vault him to the White House. This summer, when the president was under fire after his debate disaster, ‘We stuck with Joe Biden,’ Clyburn said in an Axios event outside the Democratic convention.

‘When Joe Biden decided to leave the stage, he called me – read me his statement right around one o’clock. I will never forget it because it was my 45th anniversary of my 39th birthday,’ he quipped.

‘I got that call, he read me his statement. I told him there’s a little thing missing … I said you can’t leave the stage not endorsing. He said I will put out a second statement within the hour. And that second statement came out at 1:46. At 1:47 I was on the phone. And I roped in my little kitchen cabinet. I said we are all in for Kamala,’ Clyburn said.

Clyburn, 84, is an influential member of the Congressional Black Caucus who has been tirelessly in Biden’s corner, even after realizing last year that Harris had ‘arrived.’ But his July 3 statement about a ‘mini primary’ should Biden drop out helped fuel conversations among Democrats about going forward after a withdrawal.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been opening discussing him and his wife’s struggle with infertility on the campaign trail as a part of his stump speech before going after Republicans for some efforts to block IVF, but it turns out his family’s personal story about infertility struggles is not about IVF but another treatment.

Walz’s recent remarks have led some to assume he and wife Gwen conceived their two children through IVF, but the campaign recently clarified that they actually used another common fertility procedure called intrauterine insemination or I.U.I.

In a statement to the New York Times, Gwen Walz addressed how a neighbor knew what they were going through at the time stating ‘she was a nurse and helped me with the shots I needed as part of the I.U.I. process.’

I.U.I. does not involve creating or discarding embryos the way IVF does, so it has not been a target of anti-abortion advocates like IVF has been.

A spokesperson told the Times when sharing his story, Walz often talks about his family undergoing ‘treatments like’ and said he was ‘using commonly understood shorthand for fertility treatments.’

After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos should be treated like children earlier this year sending the industry into chaos, Walz wrote on Facebook ‘Gwen and I have two beautiful children because of reproductive health care like IVF. This issue is deeply personal to our family and so many others.’

Donald Trump says Joe Biden’s ‘angry and ranting’ Democratic National Convention speech was ‘full of lies’.

The former president took to Truth Social on Tuesday to claim jobs created under the 81-year-old president were ‘almost 100 per cent illegal aliens pouring into our country’.

The Republican nominee also slammed Trump for failing to mention Afghanistan and said ‘far more people died from COVID during the Biden years than the Trump years’.

An angry and ranting Speech full of LIES, Biden took credit for everything done during the Trump Administration, even continuing to say that he was better on Inflation and Jobs. He never mentioned the Afghanistan Disaster and all the Wars he got us into, or the fact that far more people died from COVID during the Biden years than the Trump years. The Jobs Biden/Harris “created” were almost 100% from Illegal Aliens pouring into our Country, which are destroying the lives of our Black and Hispanic population!

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor for DailyMail.com in Chicago

Election guru David Plouffe said outside the Democratic convention that Donald Trump isn’t showing the fire of his 2016 and 2020 efforts – and that the candidate himself keeps throwing his own campaign off track.

Plouffe said at an Axios event near the Democratic convention that Trump worked hard campaigning in 2016 and again in 2020 while being ‘irresponsible’ about COVID risks. This time, ‘He’s got a really lazy schedule,’ said Plouffe.

With field organizing, messaging, and volunteers all influencing elections, the candidate matters more in presidential races than in any other contest, said Plouffe, who helped steer Barack Obama’s historic wins.

‘He’s a 78-year-old former president. We talk about him like a child, okay? If he can’t execute basics and talk about what he wants to do, we really want this guy with the nuclear codes?’ said Plouffe, who threw himself into the Harris campaign after President Biden ended his run. ‘He’s going to get 46 to 48 percent of the vote. That’s just the fact. Our goal and necessity is to get a little more than that.’

He identified the seven most prominent battleground states, plus a single Congressional District in Nebraska. And he mocked Trump’s brain trust for earlier claims they could play in Minnesota and other states he called out of reach. ‘It’ll come down to a vote or two for precinct’ in the battlegrounds, he predicted.

Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Chicago:

Former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle are giving much anticipated speeches tonight on Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention.

Also speaking this evening is Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. Organizers say he will ‘speak to the strength and leadership that she will bring to her presidency.’

Other speakers this evening include Senators Chuck Schumer, Tammy Duckworth, and Bernie Sanders as welll as Governors JB Pritzker and Michelle Lujan Grisham.

Democrats also announced they are reaching across the aisle this evening with remarks from Republican Mayor John Giles of Mesa, Arizona. Former Trump aide Stephanie Grisham also confirmed she will be speaking.

The thousands of delegates in attendance will also get to participate in ‘celebratory’ roll call as the delegates announce their support for the Harris-Walz ticket by state even though there was already a virtual roll call to make the ticket official ahead of the convention.

Stephanie Grisham – a top aide to former first lady Melania Trump who had a stint as White House press secretary – will speak Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention.

Grisham was among the flood of White House officials to quit over the Capitol assault on January 6.

Since then she’s become a prominent Trump critic.

‘I never thought I’d be speaking at a Democratic convention. But, after seeing firsthand who Donald Trump really is, and the threat he poses to our country, I feel very strongly about speaking out,’ she first revealed to NBC News.

She posted to X on Tuesday: ‘Well, I’m doing a thing tonight. #RepublicansForHarris.’

Anti-DNC protestors descended upon Chicago slamming Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris, saying she’s been complicit in the Gaza ‘genocide’ and failing to improve the U.S.

Of the thousands of protestors who partook in Monday’s ‘March on the DNC,’ many interviewed by DailyMail.com said that Harris will not get their vote.

The hordes of activists chanted that the vice president is complicit in and supportive of the ‘genocide’ of Palestinians. They said President Joe Biden is at fault too, but their anger was aimed at the party’s heir apparent.

‘We’re calling people not to vote for Harris,’ one woman holding a sign reading ‘Abandon Harris ’24’ sign told DailyMail.com.

From Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent in Detroit, Michigan

Donald Trump keeps up his counterprograming Tuesday with a visit to Michigan, his first visit to the crucial battleground since Joe Biden dropped out.

He heads to Livingston County Sheriff’s Office in Howell, just northwest of Detroit, where he is due to talk about ‘crime and safety.’

But his destination immediately attracted controversy because of its links to white supremacy. The Ku Klux Klan’s Grand Dragon had a Howell mailing address in the 1970s and just last month a small group of white supremacists marched through the town chanting ‘Heil Hitler.’

Trump critics see his visit as a ‘dog whistle’ to racists. At the weekend, Harris for President Michigan Communications Director Alyssa Bradley said:

Trump’s actions have encouraged them, and Michiganders can expect more of the same when he comes to town next week.

Biden visited the area in 2021.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Chicago, Illinois

Kamala Harris’ campaign remarks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Tuesday night could be broadcast live on screen at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, new reports reveal.

If the 8:00 p.m. rally is played at the United Center, the vice president could end up speaking virtually at her own convention.

Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are slated for the keynote speeches for night two of the Convention.

The unprecedented move would mark Harris’ second remakrs at the Convention – albeit remotely – after her brief remarks paying tribute to President Joe Biden on stage during night one on Monday.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Chicago, Illinois

Joe Biden arrived in Santa Barbara, California just before 2:30 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday morning for a family vacation after a long day in Chicago on Monday.

It came after he delivered the keynote remarks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention and spoke beyond midnight for East Coast viewers.

The President and first lady Jill Biden disembarked with granddaughter Natalie Biden.

Other family members who came off Air Force One in California in the early hours of Tuesday were Hunter, carrying baby Beau, and wife Melissa Cohen, the Biden’s daughter Ashley and her husband Howard as well as grandchildren Finnegan, Maisy, and Naomi and Peter.

The Bidens are staying at the Kiani Preserve, which is an 8,000 acre ranch with its own winery owned by their friend Joe Kiani.

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s latest attempt to try and get his federal tax crimes case thrown out has failed.

Hunter is scheduled to sit for federal trial in Los Angeles at the beginning of September.

If convicted in the tax evasion case, Biden faces a maximum of 17 years in prison. He has pleaded not guilty.

Hunter was seen embracing his father Joe after his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday.

The president has said he will not pardon Hunter, despite his federal gun conviction and possible tax conviction.

In his speech to the DNC on Monday night Joe Biden addressed the issue of anti-Israel protesters outside. He said:

Those protesters out in the street, they have a point. A lot of innocent people are being killed on both sides.

We’re working around the clock to end the civilian suffering of the Palestinian people and finally, finally, finally deliver a ceasefire and end this war.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus appeared live from the DNC in Chicago on ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’.

Her show ‘Veep’ has seen a 350 percent increase in viewers after Kamala Harris emerged as the Democratic nominee. She said:

Let me explain to you, on ‘Veep’ I played a narcissistic, megalomaniac sociopath, and that is not Kamala Harris. It might be another candidate in the race.