Joe Biden's exit, Hillary Clinton and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's speeches: takeaways from first day of the DNC

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00:00Basking in an extended standing ovation from the packed convention hall, it was the send-off

00:11Joe Biden had hoped to defer for another four years. However, the outgoing U.S. president

00:16insisted he was not bitter about stepping aside.

00:20I love the job, but I love my country more. And all this talk about how I'm angry at all

00:26those people who said I should step down, that's not true.

00:32Biden spent parts of his nearly hour-long speech criticising Donald Trump, calling him

00:37a loser and convicted felon, as well as ticking through his achievements in office, sharing

00:43the credit with his vice president and the party's presumptive nominee, Kamala Harris.

00:48Because of you, we've had one of the most extraordinary four years of progress ever.

00:54Period.

00:55When I say we, I mean Kamala and me.

01:02Passing the torch to Harris, Biden promised to be the best volunteer she and her running

01:07mate Tim Walz had ever seen. Harris had made a surprise appearance earlier in the evening

01:12expressing gratitude for the president.

01:15Joe, thank you for your historic leadership, for your lifetime of service to our nation

01:21and for all you will continue to do.

01:25Monday also saw several high-profile Democrats take to the stage in Chicago. In a fiery speech,

01:31former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she hoped Harris could do what she could

01:35not, invoking a metaphor from her 2016 concession speech.

01:40Together we put a lot of cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling.

01:47On the other side of that glass ceiling is Kamala Harris raising her hand and taking

01:54the oath of office as our 47th president of the United States.

02:00She and other speakers sought to hammer home a particular message that America was embarking

02:05on a new chapter in its story.

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