Democratic convention live updates: Biden poised to accept nomination; Trump to stage event beforehand

Harris, the Black daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, became the first woman of color to accept the nomination for vice president from a major political party.Hours before Biden appears on Thursday, President Trump plans to stage an event in Pennsylvania, where aides say he will detail “a half century of Joe Biden failing America.”The morning after Trump gave a major boost to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) called it “nuts” and said, “Real leaders call conspiracy theories conspiracy theories.”“If Democrats take the Senate, blow up the filibuster, and pack the Supreme Court — garbage like this will be a big part of why they won,” Sasse, a Republican who speaks his mind about Trump more freely than most, said in a statement.On Wednesday, Trump said he appreciated the support of QAnon followers, calling them “people that love our country.”Pressed at a White House briefing about the online movement, which the FBI has identified as a potential domestic terrorist threat, he claimed not to know anything about it other than the affection its adherents have for him. “Nut jobs, rascists, haters have no place in either Party.”Hours before Biden is slated to formally accept the Democratic nomination Thursday, Trump plans to stage an event in Pennsylvania near the former vice president’s childhood home that Trump’s campaign has billed as a recounting of “a half century of Joe Biden failing America.” Democrats are dismissing Trump’s speech, planned at a building products company in Old Forge, Pa., as a stunt designed to detract from Biden’s big night.Biden, who grew up in Scranton, Pa., will deliver his acceptance speech at a venue near his home in Wilmington, Del., capping his party’s highly unconventional four-day convention.Trump’s appearance in Pennsylvania will be his fifth in a presidential battleground state this week.