Emcee Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Andrew Yang banter, after which the Veep star joked that unlike Trump, Joe Biden reads. She also noted that the Democrats’ text number, 30330, “should be easy to remember because that’s they year Trump will release is tax returns.”
After an exceptionally cute boy (who had lost his front teeth) recited the Pledge of Allegiance, The Chicks sang the National Anthem a capella.
Sr. Simone Campbell, director of Nuns on the Bus, provided the benediction. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware described Biden’s grounding in faith and how his beliefs underscore his actions.
They played a clip of Biden responding to a minister who had asked him about how his faith guides him, to which Biden described going to the Emanuel AME Baptist Church in Charleston after the 2015 massacre to seek hope and solace.
“Joe Biden goes to church so regularly that he doesn’t even need tear gas and a bunch of federalized troops to get there,” Louis-Dreyfus quipped after the segment.