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DNC Night 4 Schedule: Hillary Clinton Accepts The Democratic Nomination

Virgin Islands delegate Edgar Phillips arrives at Wells Fargo Center before the start of the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Thursday.
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Virgin Islands delegate Edgar Phillips arrives at Wells Fargo Center before the start of the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Thursday.

The final night of the Democratic National Convention belongs to Hillary Clinton, who will formally accept her party's nomination for president this evening.

She's the first woman to ever be nominated for the White House by a major political party, and she'll be introduced by her daughter, Chelsea, to make her historic acceptance speech.

Many Senate Democratic women will also speak ahead of Clinton's speech.

Singers Carole King, Katy Perry and Sheila E. will also perform.

Here is a partial evening schedule, as provided by the DNC:

6-7 p.m. ET

  • Carole King performs
  • House Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn
  • Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Maryland
  • Sen. Patty Murray, Washington
  • Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Michigan
  • Sen. Maria Cantwell, Washington
  • Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota
  • Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri
  • Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire
  • Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York
  • Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin
  • Sen. Mazie Hirono, Hawaii
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer, California
  • 7-9 p.m. ET

  • Rep. Joaquin Castro, Texas
  • Sheila E. performs
  • Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York
  • House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
  • Gov. John Hickenlooper, Colorado
  • Gov. Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania
  • Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • 9-10 p.m. ET

  • Actress Chloe Grace Moretz
  • Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio
  • Rep. Xavier Becerra, California
  • Katy Perry performs
  • 10-11 p.m. ET

  • Chelsea Clinton
  • Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton
  • Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

    Corrected: July 27, 2016 at 10:00 PM MDT
    A previous version of this story misspelled Xavier Becerra's last name as Beccera.
    Jessica Taylor is a political reporter with NPR based in Washington, DC, covering elections and breaking news out of the White House and Congress. Her reporting can be heard and seen on a variety of NPR platforms, from on air to online. For more than a decade, she has reported on and analyzed House and Senate elections and is a contributing author to the 2020 edition of The Almanac of American Politics and is a senior contributor to The Cook Political Report.