Who is hosting the DNC? Ana Navarro hosts second night of convention

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Excessive-profile audio system, musical company and superstar hosts will take part within the festivities every night time of the Democratic Nationwide Conference that runs from Monday to Thursday in Chicago.

This 12 months is totally different from different conventions because the get together will approve its nominee and platform a couple of month after President Joe Biden ended his reelection marketing campaign. The Democrats shortly united behind Vice President Kamala Harris, who then named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her working mate. 

Nighttime programming is predicted to start at 6:15 p.m. ET and finish round 11 p.m. ET. Every of the superstar hosts has a historical past of supporting the Democratic Occasion and publicly campaigning for candidates. Who’re they?

Tony Goldwyn

Goldwyn, an actor who at present stars as a Manhattan district legal professional on “Regulation & Order,” will host on Monday. Notably, Goldwyn spent seven seasons on the tv present “Scandal” enjoying the president of the USA, co-created a authorized drama sequence known as “The Divide” and directed “Conviction,” a film concerning the real-life exoneration of Kenny Waters, a person who served 18 years in jail for a homicide he didn’t commit. 

Goldwyn can be a co-chair of the Innocence Undertaking’s ambassadors program. The Innocence Undertaking, based in 1992, is a nationwide litigation and public coverage group targeted on exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals utilizing DNA testing and different scientific developments. 

In 2016, he directed a industrial lending assist to Hillary Clinton’s presidential marketing campaign. And earlier this summer time, when Biden was nonetheless the presumptive presidential nominee, Goldwyn attended a reproductive rights occasion with Biden’s reelection marketing campaign.

Ana Navarro

Navarro, a political commentator and co-host on “The View,” will host the DNC on Tuesday. Although a Republican, Navarro has lent her assist to Democratic candidates since former President Donald Trump entered American politics. She has stated that the primary time she voted for a Democrat was in 2016 when Hillary Clinton ran in opposition to Trump — and that she plans to assist Harris over Trump in 2024. 

Navarro was born in Nicaragua and emigrated to the USA as a toddler. She was the Nationwide Hispanic Co-Chair for John McCain’s 2008 presidential marketing campaign, suggested a number of campaigns in Florida and once more served as a Nationwide Hispanic Co-Chair, however for Republican Jon Huntsman, then the governor of Utah, throughout his 2012 presidential marketing campaign. 

Mindy Kaling

Kaling, an actress and comic, will host on Wednesday. She has obtained two Display screen Actors Guild Awards, a Tony Award and 6 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations. She first gained recognition for her position on “The Workplace.” She went on to create, produce and star in “The Mindy Undertaking” earlier than creating different reveals, starring in movies and writing two memoirs. 

In 2019, Kaling and Harris cooked collectively, making a South Indian dish known as masala dosa, and spoke about their shared Indian heritage. The video, which has greater than 6 million views, obtained renewed consideration in current weeks after Trump shared it on his social media as a part of an assault on Harris’ racial identification. 

Kerry Washington

Washington, an actress and political activist, will host on Thursday. Washington spoke on the DNC in 2012 and served as a number in 2020. She performed a political fixer for years on the TV present “Scandal.” 

After Trump grew to become president in 2016, Washington grew to become far more politically energetic in actual life: talking on the Los Angeles Ladies’s March in 2017, publicly supporting Biden and Harris in 2020 and dealing with Stacey Abrams — who served within the Georgia Home of Representatives from 2007 to 2017  earlier than founding Honest Struggle Motion in 2019 to battle voter suppression — in 2021 to get out the vote. Washington launched the Imaginative and prescient Into Energy Cohort program to assist grassroots organizations throughout the nation that empower Black, Latinx, Indigenous, LGBTQ+ and working-class communities. 

When Harris introduced her marketing campaign, Washington posted a photograph of the 2 of them on X with the caption: “@KamalaHarris can and can win this! I imagine in her and I imagine in us. Let’s gooooooooooooo!”