Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison spoke on “Politically Georgia” about the star-studded lineup of speakers ahead of the party convention that begins Monday.
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock is expected to speak.
“Well, the Rev, who’s my brother in good trouble, you know, he and I first ran in the same time together in 2020 when I ran for the Senate in South Carolina,” Harrison said of Warnock, stopping short of confirming if he’ll take the podium.
“He is just such a tremendous force of good, not in the country, not only in the Democratic Party. He’s going to play a major role in this campaign,” he added.
But how about former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, a Republican who gained headlines by endorsing Harris over former President Donald Trump?
Harrison was noncommittal.
“You will see all of the shades of support for Kamala Harris on that stage,” Harrison said. “I’ll put it like that.”
President Joe Biden is set to speak Monday.
Harrison said Friday that he’s so excited to see Biden get his flowers after passing the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I can tell you this, when Joe Biden steps on that stage on Monday night here in Chicago, it is going to blow the roof off of the United Center,” he said. “This man has been probably one of the most transformational, if not the most transformational president in my lifetime.”
Harrison said the party is “going to have a great convention.”
“It is going to be representative of not only the Democratic Party and the diversity in our party,” he said, “but representative of the support that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have garnered in this election.”
Monday on “Politically Georgia”: The team airs our full conversation with Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison as we report live from Chicago at the Democratic National Convention.
