Griffin Brown

Aug 23, 2024 | al.com | Sofia Abdullina |Griffin Brown

CHICAGO - All week at the Democratic National Convention, Alabama delegates who spoke to AL.com said they looked forward to Shomari Figures’ Thursday night address, describing it as a moment of optimism for Alabama Democrats. “I think we in Alabama are at a deficit of capable, qualified elected officials,” delegate Jamie Lowe said, citing Sen. Tommy Tuberville and Gov. Kay Ivey.

Aug 23, 2024 | mlive.com | Griffin Brown

Special note: Griffin Uribe Brown, a Syracuse University junior from Chicago studying magazine, news and digital journalism and policy studies, is reporting for MLive during the Democratic National Convention. He is covering the DNC as part of a program with Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. CHICAGO — In 2008, an 18-year-old Jason Morgan witnessed then-Senator Barack Obama accept the nomination for president of the United States as a Michigan delegate.

Aug 21, 2024 | al.com | Griffin Brown

CHICAGO - The Democratic National Convention heard from an unlikely speaker this week: a lifelong Alabama Republican. Kyle Sweetser, a former President Donald Trump voter from Mobile told the convention Tuesday night he will be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in November, despite voting for Trump in 2016 and 2020. “In 2016, I was excited to vote for Trump,” Sweetser told AL.com a day after his convention speech.

Aug 21, 2024 | al.com | Griffin Brown |Sofia Abdullina

CHICAGO–Beginning at around 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention ceremonial role call, each delegation pledged support for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz. Alabama’s delegation went second, led by U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, who is running for re-election this November. Following the roll call, Harris called in from her rally in Milwaukee, although she will officially accept the nomination on Thursday, the final day of the convention.

Aug 20, 2024 | al.com | Griffin Brown |Sofia Abdullina

Following a shaky summer, which included public feuds between the leadership of the Alabama Democratic Party and the Democratic National Convention, the state’s delegation arrived in Chicago for this week’s event with a common goal of nominating Kamala Harris to be the country’s next president. But under the lights at the United Center, state party chairman Randy Kelley wanted to emphasize unity and energy within the Alabama group and the Democratic Party as a whole.