CHICAGO (AP) Vice President Kamala Harris will tell voters they have a chance to chart a new way forward as Americans this November, as she looks to introduce herself to voters and prosecute her case against Republican Donald Trump Thursday night as she accepts her partys nomination at the Democratic National Convention.

Harris address in Chicago caps a whirlwind eight weeks in American politics and manifests the stunning reversal of Democratic fortunes just 75 days until Election Day. Party leaders, who had publicly despaired over President Joe Biden s candidacy after his disastrous debate against Trump, were jubilant both at the historic nature of Harris candidacy and their buoyed hopes for this November.

With this election, our nation has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive battles of the past, Harris will say, according to excerpts released by her campaign. A chance to chart a New Way Forward. Not as members of any one party or faction, but as Americans.

Harris will be the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to accept a major partys presidential nomination, and if elected, she would be the first female U.S. president. And when she takes the stage, she will be looking out across a sea of female delegates and Democratic supporters wearing white the color of womens suffrage the movement that culminated with American women securing the right to vote in 1920.

Just a month after Biden ended his reelection bid and endorsed her to replace him atop the Democratic ticket, Harris will look to make the most of her chance to define herself to voters on her own terms before an audience of millions.