Michelle Obama, the night’s finale, and Eva Longoria, the host, spoke most at the Democrats’ first virtual convention.
Michelle Obama, the night’s finale, and Eva Longoria, the host, spoke most at the Democrats’ first virtual convention.
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Who Spoke Most at the Democratic National Convention?
ByWeiyi CaiandReid J. EpsteinAug. 18, 2020
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Michelle Obama, whoanchored the Democrats’ first virtual conventionMonday night, spoke longest, followed by Eva Longoria, the actress who hosted the event.
Four Republicans who stepped up for Joseph R. Biden Jr. — including theformer Ohio governor John Kasich— spoke for a total of about five and a half minutes.
Monday’s lineup of speakers was intended to convey the broad ideological support for Mr. Biden — from Republicans like Mr. Kasich toSenator Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist from Vermont, who placed second in the 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.
How long each person spoke
Heading into thefour-day convention, the most closely guarded secret was how much time each speaker would get during the two-hour window each night.
Party officials said the average speech length would clock in at two minutes — after accounting for the five major addresses from the Obamas, the Bidens and Senator Kamala Harris, Mr. Biden’s running mate. Speakers spent recent weeks privately jockeying with convention organizers for extra time.
With so little time to divide among so many speakers representing the ideological, racial and geographic diversity of the party, convention planners have been careful not to advertise how much time each speaker received, to avoid causing hurt feelings in advance of the virtual event.
Here’s a list of the main speakers on Monday night:
Eva Longoria
Actress; Convention host
Gwen Moore
U.S. representative of Wisconsin
Muriel Bowser
Mayor, District of Columbia
James E. Clyburn
U.S. representative of South Carolina
Andrew M. Cuomo
Governor of New York
Sara Gideon
Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
Gretchen Whitmer
Governor of Michigan
Christine Todd Whitman
Former Republican governor of New Jersey
Meg Whitman
C.E.O., Quibi; former Republican candidate for California governor
Susan Molinari
Former Republican U.S. representative of New York
John Kasich
Former governor of Ohio; 2016 Republican presidential candidate
Doug Jones
Senator of Alabama
Catherine Cortez Masto
Senator of Nevada
Amy Klobuchar
Senator of Minnesota; 2020 Democratic presidential candidate
Cedric Richmond
U.S. representative of Louisiana
Bernie Sanders
Senator of Vermont; 2020 Democratic presidential candidate
Michelle Obama
Former first lady
Kristin Urquiza
Lost her father to Covid-19
Philonise and Rodney Floyd
George Floyd’s brothers