Penn graduates are spearheading the effort to bring the 2028 Democratic National Convention to Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The city \u2014 alongside Denver and Boston \u2013 is one of three contenders to host the convention. Leading the charge are 2016 Fels Institute of Government graduate and Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, former Penn Board of Trustees Chair David Cohen, and former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cohen, a 1981 University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School graduate, is the president of the non-profit Pick Philadelphia \u2014 the group behind the campaign to bring the DNC back to the city. Rendell, a 1965 College graduate, serves as honorary co-chair of the organization while Mayor Parker is a board member in her capacity as mayor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Requests for comment were left with Cohen, Rendell, and Parker.<\/p>\n
If selected, Philadelphia would host the convention from Aug. 7-10, 2028, at the Xfinity Mobile Arena. The arena \u2014 then the Wells Fargo Center \u2014 previously hosted the convention in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Sign Up<\/a><\/p>\n At that convention, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the Democratic nomination but ultimately fell short in the general election<\/a> to 1968 Wharton graduate and President Donald Trump, much to the country\u2019s shock. On Election Day, an overwhelming majority<\/a> of votes cast on Penn\u2019s campus favored Democratic nominee Clinton.<\/p>\n When Philadelphia hosted the DNC in 2016, students, professors, and University leadership engaged<\/a> with the convention by interning with the convention\u2019s host committee, teaching classes that required attending either the DNC or Republican National Convention, and hosting delegates<\/a> at the Inn at Penn.<\/p>\n At the time, Penn students helped Rendell put on the national convention \u2014 including orchestrating programming<\/a> and events around Philadelphia leading up to and during the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThat will be an all hands on deck hospitality, community, city government, business community, organized labor, civil society, just ordinary citizens helping to welcome the site selection committee here to Philadelphia,\u201d Cohen told<\/a> NBC earlier this year.<\/p>\n Cohen added that the city is prepared to handle the requirements of an event at this magnitude.<\/p>\n Last month, DNC Chair Ken Martin told WHYY<\/a> that Philadelphia \u2014 along with the other two cities in contention \u2014 had given \u201cincredibly strong bids” and described the convention as an \u201cinspiring celebration of our party\u2019s future nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n The final location of the 2028 convention will be announced later this year.<\/p>\n Staff reporter Luke Petersen covers politics and can be reached at petersen@thedp.com<\/a>. At Penn, he studies philosophy, politics, and economics. Follow him on X @LukePetersen06<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn graduates are spearheading the effort to bring the 2028 Democratic National Convention to Philadelphia.\u00a0 The city \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-277212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}