DNC: Harris accepts VP nomination in historic speech, as Obama delivers unprecedented takedown of Trump

Kamala Harris accepted the vice president nomination in a historic speech during the Democratic National as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton delivered scathing takedowns of Donald Trump and his presidency.

The focus of the third night was placed firmly on Joe Biden's running mate, who paid tribute to her immigrant mother as she accepted the party's nomination. "I am committed to the values she [my mother] taught me, to the word that teaches me to walk by faith, and not by sight, and to a vision passed on through generations of Americans--one that Joe Biden shares," she said in her remarks.

While Harris focused on family and fighting for justice, she took a few detours towards Trump with pointed snipes like knowing 'a predator when she sees one'.

There was no such restraint from Obama and Clinton, however, who both made the existential crisis of the past four years of Trump's presidency the north star of their call to elect Biden to the White House.

Obama unloaded an unusually direct tirade at Trump, calling him out by name more than ever before and saying he had unleashed 'our worst impulses' as he turned the office of president into a reality show.

Clinton, meanwhile, reflected on her 2016 loss, saying people didn't realize how dangerous Trump was or that they wished they could go back and 'do it over'. She recalled the moment Trump asked, "what have you got to lose".

"Now we know," Clinton said.

What the country has to lose was the major focus of Wednesday night's convention as speakers focused on climate change, gun violence and immigration.

The Biden campaign promised a clean energy revolution to place the United States in a leadership position on climate change, while shooting survivors Gabby Giffords and Emma Gonzales led a call to action to vote end the gun violence in America.

But perhaps the most moving moment came from 11-year-old Estela Juarez, from Florida, who delivered an address directly to the President who deported her mother to Mexico and tore her family apart.