(CN) - Tonight's the night Hillary Clinton will accept the Democratic nomination for president. On this, the final night of the party's nominating convention, about two dozen speakers will make the case that Clinton is the only candidate qualified to be the next leader of the free world. Despite bids for unity, however, diehard supporters of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders insist they still need convincing.
10:16 p.m.
PHILADELPHIA (CN) - Chelsea Clinton introduced her mother to become the first woman to accept the nomination of a major American political party Thursday night.
Chelsea Clinton told stories about Hillary Clinton as a caring grandmother and mother who attended her softball and soccer games, piano and dance recitals. She said her first memory was her mom picking her up after she fell down and reading her "Goodnight Moon."
"From that moment to this one, every single memory I have of my mother is that, whatever's happening in her life, she's always, always there for me," Clinton said.
Clinton also told the audience about her mother's work for kids in Arkansas and her caring method of public service.
"As her daughter, I've had a special window into how she serves," Clinton said. "I've seen her holding the hands of mothers worried about how to feed their kids, worried about how to get them the health care they need, my mother promising to do everything she could to help."
Clinton called her mother's fight for universal health care in 1994 "bruising and exhausting," but used that fight to show her mother as a tireless champion for the causes she believes in.
She called her mother a "progressive" who would fight for families and children as well as against climate change and gun violence.
"People ask me all the time, how does she do it? How does she keep going amid all the sound and fury of politics," Clinton said. "Here's how. It's because she never, ever forgets who she's fighting for."
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9:46 p.m.
PHILADELPHIA (CN) - Sen. Sherrod Brown promised voters a more fair economy if they helped to elect Hillary Clinton in November in a speech to the Democratic National Convention Thursday night.
Brown, once rumored to on the shortlist to serve as Clinton's vice president, said Clinton would promote down on worker-focused trade deals and bring jobs back to America through tax credits designed to incentivize companies to produce goods at home rather than shipping them overseas.
"Hillary Clinton knows a job is not just a paycheck," Brown said. "It's about building a better life for your family. She's a progressive who gets things done and she has a real plan to give American workers the chance to share in the profits they create."
The Ohio senator bashed Republican nominee Donald Trump for exporting jobs oversees for his companies while talking tough on trade at his packed campaign rallies. Clinton, on the other hand, has a real plan to bring jobs back home, Brown insisted.
"I've been fighting for a trade agenda for more than 20 years that puts American workers first," Brown said. "And I can tell you, in all those years, I've never ever even seen Donald Trump. No, the only thing I've seen Donald Trump do when it comes to U.S. trade policy is run his mouth and line his pockets."
