Tucson Mayor Regina Romero represented the southern Arizona city at the 2024 Democratic National Convention Monday in Chicago, speaking to attendees in Spanish and English and praising the party’s national platform.
Romero was one of the early speakers on the first night of the four-day convention. “Buenas noches, Demócratas,” Romero said to the cacophony of claps and hollering from the crowd.
Romero and former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Platform Committee co-chairs, presented the Democrat national platform , which was recommended for approval by the platform committee on July 16, before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.
Delegates at the convention voted to pass the platform, one day after the DNC publicly released the final Democratic Party Platform.
Romero praised Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for their agenda that works for “everyone,” and slammed former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, for his “extreme agenda.”