Thread by @VivianHo

Some of the Democratic presidential candidates descend upon San Francisco today for the DNC summer meeting. Kamala Harris, with the hometown advantage, has a gaggle of supporters throughout the venue, waving signs and chanting.

Nancy Pelosi, another hometown hero, walked on stage to a standing ovation, following a hype video of all her greatest hits. Countering that, a woman wearing an “Impeach Trump Now” shirt holds up a sign reading, “Nancy, you’ve drunk your own Kool-Aid.”

Michael Bennet is first candidate to speak, and he lobs critique at DNC: "The DNC is stifling debate at a time when we need it most. We’re rewarding celebrity candidates w/ millions of Twitter followers who buy their way onto the stage, candidates who have been running for years"

"Jay Inslee dropped out of the race this week not just bc he didn’t qualify for the third debate but bc he didn’t qualify for the climate change town hall...If we wanted to be the party that excluded people, we’d be Republicans." - Michael Bennet

.@JoeBiden, who is notably absent at the DNC summer meeting, dropped in with a video: "If we stand together, we will win the battle for the soul of this nation."

@JoeBiden .@JulianCastro drew a lot of cheers when he talked policy, hitting on all the key points of his plan for immigration, healthcare, education, the equality act, protecting Roe vs. Wade.

@JoeBiden @JulianCastro .@BetoORourke dropped in with a video, is the first candidate to address a domestic terrorism and white supremacy issue facing the nation.

@JoeBiden @JulianCastro @BetoORourke Late entry candidate @JoeSestak invokes Anita Hill when talking about his history running against Sen. Arlen Specter, leaving unsaid frontrunner @JoeBiden's involvement.

@JoeBiden @JulianCastro @BetoORourke @JoeSestak .@sethmoulton uses his time at @DNC summer meeting to drop out of the race. Spoke about ending stigma around mental health, thanks everyone. Says he will still run for Congress in Massachusetts.

@JoeBiden @JulianCastro @BetoORourke @JoeSestak @sethmoulton @DNC .@TimRyan rallies the crowd on gun control: "Mitch McConnell, get off your ass and pass gun reform in the United States Senate!"

@JoeBiden @JulianCastro @BetoORourke @JoeSestak @sethmoulton @DNC @TimRyan And @TimRyan is the first candidate to get played off the stage.

@JoeBiden @JulianCastro @BetoORourke @JoeSestak @sethmoulton @DNC @TimRyan Another notably absent candidate, @PeteButtigieg drops a video that is more a campaign reel than a direct address to the @DNC like the other absent candidates.

@JoeBiden @JulianCastro @BetoORourke @JoeSestak @sethmoulton @DNC @TimRyan @PeteButtigieg .@TulsiGabbard is also not here because she had army service in Indonesia. She used her video address to call for cuts to defense budget/an end to the wars.

.@sunrisemvmt using the break to call for a @dnc-sanctioned climate change debate

Meanwhile, on literally the other side of the wall, @KamalaHarris supporters get excited for her talk

There was also this person taking a stand against @KamalaHarris

@KamalaHarris Honestly feel bad for whoever has to speak after @RevDrBarber riled the crowd up into a stomping and clapping frenzy

@KamalaHarris @RevDrBarber Funnily enough @DNC chair Tom Perez had everyone take a moment of silence, like when your preschool teacher had you take a time out to calm down. Anyways, we have 11 more candidates to hear from today.

@KamalaHarris @RevDrBarber @DNC .@CoryBooker takes the stage: "Everybody in this room agrees we need to beat Donald Trump. How? We do not beat Donald Trump by making it about Donald Trump."

@KamalaHarris @RevDrBarber @DNC @CoryBooker Booker gets a lot of cheers and laughs, engaging the crowd and getting a big standing O at the end: "We have got to talk to this nation, not about what we are against, but what we are for. We have got to talk to this nation, not just about the darkness, but about the light."

.@KamalaHarris takes the stand to huge cheers

@KamalaHarris Harris starts off with an anecdote about campaigning for SF DA, using her ironing board as a standing desk outside her local grocery store to hand out fliers.

@KamalaHarris This crowd is packed with Harris' supporters, and she is speaking like she knows it. She looks totally at ease at the podium, speaking with strength and power.

@KamalaHarris Talking about "Make America Great Again:" "That means looking back. We ask them, back to what? Back before the voting rights act? Back before the civil rights act? Back before Roe Vs. Wade? Back before federal minimum wage? Because we are not going back."

@KamalaHarris .@SenSanders takes the stage with the chants of Harris' supporters still fading in the distance. Sanders: "In my view, we will only be successful if we are capable of rallying an unprecedented grassroots uprising that sweeps Trump and all that he represents out of office."

@KamalaHarris @SenSanders Sanders gets a lot of cheers for his policies: canceling student debt, free public university/college, defeating white nationalism, overhauling immigration, climate change

@KamalaHarris @SenSanders .@amyklobuchar takes the stage: "Do you know the difference between Donald Trump and Greenland? Greenland is not for sale."

@KamalaHarris @SenSanders @amyklobuchar .@TomSteyer is speaking now. Says he supports a @DNC-sponsored climate change debate, which brought on cheers from @sunrisemvmt. Says he would declare state of emergency around climate change if he's elected.

@KamalaHarris @SenSanders @amyklobuchar @TomSteyer @DNC @sunrisemvmt Huge, huge injection of energy into the crowd for @ewarren.

@KamalaHarris @SenSanders @amyklobuchar @TomSteyer @DNC @sunrisemvmt @ewarren Warren: "When you see an America, a government that works great for those with money, those with connections, and not great for anyone else, that’s corruption, plain and simple. We need to call it out and we need to fight it. And I got a plan for that." Huge cheers.

@KamalaHarris @SenSanders @amyklobuchar @TomSteyer @DNC @sunrisemvmt @ewarren Warren talking about a 2-cent wealth tax on those with more than $50m. Says that tax can fund universal childcare, tuition-free college, cancel student loan debt.

@KamalaHarris @SenSanders @amyklobuchar @TomSteyer @DNC @sunrisemvmt @ewarren Two women trying to lead crowd in a "Marianne! Marianne!" chant for @marwilliamson. Crowd not engaging.

@KamalaHarris @SenSanders @amyklobuchar @TomSteyer @DNC @sunrisemvmt @ewarren @marwilliamson Williamson says she is the one who can defeat Trump because he is Goliath and @DNC is David and @DNC needs to blind Trump and she can blind Trump with moral politics.

@KamalaHarris @SenSanders @amyklobuchar @TomSteyer @DNC @sunrisemvmt @ewarren @marwilliamson .@AndrewYang on stage now, talking about how Donald Trump was elected because technology automated jobs away, his $1,000 a month "tech check"

@KamalaHarris @SenSanders @amyklobuchar @TomSteyer @DNC @sunrisemvmt @ewarren @marwilliamson @AndrewYang "The opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math." Yang closes out his speech to massive cheers, chants of "Andrew Yang! Andrew Yang!"

@KamalaHarris @SenSanders @amyklobuchar @TomSteyer @DNC @sunrisemvmt @ewarren @marwilliamson @AndrewYang John Delaney, Steve Bullock, @SenGillibrand finish up the @DNC event with video messages, all of them talking about the importance of beating Trump in 2020.