James Taylor is bumped from DNC lineup to get Biden on the podium before midnight

James Taylor was cut from what was supposed to be the key musical performance on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

It came amid chaotic delays and as organizers tried to stop Joe Biden's speech being pushed back further.

The veteran singer-songwriter had been scheduled to appear after 9pm local time.

He would have perfromed following Jill Biden's speech and before Ashley Biden, who introduced her father as the final speaker of the night.

Even after Taylor was cut the president did not get on stage util about 10.30pm local time.

Earlier, Taylor had been seen rehearsing, giving a hint of what the crowd missed.

A DNC official said:

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor for DailyMail.com in Chicago

President Joe Biden’s historic letter announcing he was ending his campaign left out a crucial element – an endorsement – longtime Rep. James C. Clyburn told him.

Clyburn is a loyalist who helped deliver South Carolina to Biden in 2020 to vault him to the White House. This summer, when the president was under fire after his debate disaster, ‘We stuck with Joe Biden,’ Clyburn said in an Axios event outside the Democratic convention.

‘When Joe Biden decided to leave the stage, he called me – read me his statement right around one o’clock. I will never forget it because it was my 45th anniversary of my 39th birthday,’ he quipped.

‘I got that call, he read me his statement. I told him there’s a little thing missing … I said you can’t leave the stage not endorsing. He said I will put out a second statement within the hour. And that second statement came out at 1:46. At 1:47 I was on the phone. And I roped in my little kitchen cabinet. I said we are all in for Kamala,’ Clyburn said.

Clyburn, 84, is an influential member of the Congressional Black Caucus who has been tirelessly in Biden’s corner, even after realizing last year that Harris had 'arrived.' But his July 3 statement about a ‘mini primary’ should Biden drop out helped fuel conversations among Democrats about going forward after a withdrawal.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has been opening discussing him and his wife's struggle with infertility on the campaign trail as a part of his stump speech before going after Republicans for some efforts to block IVF, but it turns out his family's personal story about infertility struggles is not about IVF but another treatment.

Walz's recent remarks have led some to assume he and wife Gwen conceived their two children through IVF, but the campaign recently clarified that they actually used another common fertility procedure called intrauterine insemination or I.U.I.

In a statement to the New York Times, Gwen Walz addressed how a neighbor knew what they were going through at the time stating 'she was a nurse and helped me with the shots I needed as part of the I.U.I. process.'

I.U.I. does not involve creating or discarding embryos the way IVF does, so it has not been a target of anti-abortion advocates like IVF has been.

A spokesperson told the Times when sharing his story, Walz often talks about his family undergoing 'treatments like' and said he was 'using commonly understood shorthand for fertility treatments.'

After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled frozen embryos should be treated like children earlier this year sending the industry into chaos, Walz wrote on Facebook 'Gwen and I have two beautiful children because of reproductive health care like IVF. This issue is deeply personal to our family and so many others.'

Donald Trump says Joe Biden's 'angry and ranting' Democratic National Convention speech was 'full of lies'.

The former president took to Truth Social on Tuesday to claim jobs created under the 81-year-old president were 'almost 100 per cent illegal aliens pouring into our country'.

The Republican nominee also slammed Trump for failing to mention Afghanistan and said 'far more people died from COVID during the Biden years than the Trump years'.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor for DailyMail.com in Chicago

Election guru David Plouffe said outside the Democratic convention that Donald Trump isn’t showing the fire of his 2016 and 2020 efforts – and that the candidate himself keeps throwing his own campaign off track.

Plouffe said at an Axios event near the Democratic convention that Trump worked hard campaigning in 2016 and again in 2020 while being ‘irresponsible’ about COVID risks. This time, ‘He's got a really lazy schedule,’ said Plouffe.

With field organizing, messaging, and volunteers all influencing elections, the candidate matters more in presidential races than in any other contest, said Plouffe, who helped steer Barack Obama’s historic wins.

‘He’s a 78-year-old former president. We talk about him like a child, okay? If he can’t execute basics and talk about what he wants to do, we really want this guy with the nuclear codes?’ said Plouffe, who threw himself into the Harris campaign after President Biden ended his run. ‘He's going to get 46 to 48 percent of the vote. That's just the fact. Our goal and necessity is to get a little more than that.’

He identified the seven most prominent battleground states, plus a single Congressional District in Nebraska. And he mocked Trump’s brain trust for earlier claims they could play in Minnesota and other states he called out of reach. ‘It'll come down to a vote or two for precinct’ in the battlegrounds, he predicted.

Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Chicago:

Former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle are giving much anticipated speeches tonight on Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention.

Also speaking this evening is Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. Organizers say he will 'speak to the strength and leadership that she will bring to her presidency.'

Other speakers this evening include Senators Chuck Schumer, Tammy Duckworth, and Bernie Sanders as welll as Governors JB Pritzker and Michelle Lujan Grisham.

Democrats also announced they are reaching across the aisle this evening with remarks from Republican Mayor John Giles of Mesa, Arizona. Former Trump aide Stephanie Grisham also confirmed she will be speaking.

The thousands of delegates in attendance will also get to participate in 'celebratory' roll call as the delegates announce their support for the Harris-Walz ticket by state even though there was already a virtual roll call to make the ticket official ahead of the convention.

Stephanie Grisham - a top aide to former first lady Melania Trump who had a stint as White House press secretary - will speak Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention.

Grisham was among the flood of White House officials to quit over the Capitol assault on January 6.

Since then she's become a prominent Trump critic.

'I never thought I’d be speaking at a Democratic convention. But, after seeing firsthand who Donald Trump really is, and the threat he poses to our country, I feel very strongly about speaking out,' she first revealed to NBC News.

She posted to X on Tuesday: 'Well, I'm doing a thing tonight. #RepublicansForHarris.'

Anti-DNC protestors descended upon Chicago slamming Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris, saying she's been complicit in the Gaza 'genocide' and failing to improve the U.S.

Of the thousands of protestors who partook in Monday's 'March on the DNC,' many interviewed by DailyMail.com said that Harris will not get their vote.

The hordes of activists chanted that the vice president is complicit in and supportive of the 'genocide' of Palestinians. They said President Joe Biden is at fault too, but their anger was aimed at the party's heir apparent.

'We're calling people not to vote for Harris,' one woman holding a sign reading 'Abandon Harris '24' sign told DailyMail.com.

From Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent in Detroit, Michigan

Donald Trump keeps up his counterprograming Tuesday with a visit to Michigan, his first visit to the crucial battleground since Joe Biden dropped out.

He heads to Livingston County Sheriff's Office in Howell, just northwest of Detroit, where he is due to talk about 'crime and safety.'

But his destination immediately attracted controversy because of its links to white supremacy. The Ku Klux Klan's Grand Dragon had a Howell mailing address in the 1970s and just last month a small group of white supremacists marched through the town chanting 'Heil Hitler.'

Trump critics see his visit as a 'dog whistle' to racists. At the weekend, Harris for President Michigan Communications Director Alyssa Bradley said:

Biden visited the area in 2021.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Chicago, Illinois

Kamala Harris' campaign remarks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Tuesday night could be broadcast live on screen at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, new reports reveal.

If the 8:00 p.m. rally is played at the United Center, the vice president could end up speaking virtually at her own convention.

Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are slated for the keynote speeches for night two of the Convention.

The unprecedented move would mark Harris' second remakrs at the Convention – albeit remotely – after her brief remarks paying tribute to President Joe Biden on stage during night one on Monday.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Chicago, Illinois

Joe Biden arrived in Santa Barbara, California just before 2:30 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday morning for a family vacation after a long day in Chicago on Monday.

It came after he delivered the keynote remarks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention and spoke beyond midnight for East Coast viewers.

The President and first lady Jill Biden disembarked with granddaughter Natalie Biden.

Other family members who came off Air Force One in California in the early hours of Tuesday were Hunter, carrying baby Beau, and wife Melissa Cohen, the Biden’s daughter Ashley and her husband Howard as well as grandchildren Finnegan, Maisy, and Naomi and Peter.

The Bidens are staying at the Kiani Preserve, which is an 8,000 acre ranch with its own winery owned by their friend Joe Kiani.

President Joe Biden's son Hunter's latest attempt to try and get his federal tax crimes case thrown out has failed.

Hunter is scheduled to sit for federal trial in Los Angeles at the beginning of September.

If convicted in the tax evasion case, Biden faces a maximum of 17 years in prison. He has pleaded not guilty.

Hunter was seen embracing his father Joe after his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday.

The president has said he will not pardon Hunter, despite his federal gun conviction and possible tax conviction.

In his speech to the DNC on Monday night Joe Biden addressed the issue of anti-Israel protesters outside. He said:

Julia Louis-Dreyfus appeared live from the DNC in Chicago on 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert'.

Her show 'Veep' has seen a 350 percent increase in viewers after Kamala Harris emerged as the Democratic nominee. She said: