US election: What's the point of a party convention?

Name: US election: What's the point of a party convention?
Uploaded: 2016-07-16T23:45:57.000Z
Duration: 2 min 27 s
Description: Every four years, US political parties hold conventions to make official whom they've selected to become their nominee for president. But what actually happens there?

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Every four years, US political parties hold conventions to make official whom they have selected to become their nominee for president. But what actually happens there? The BBC's Katty Kay breaks it down.

Video by Olivia Lace-Evans

Produced by Sarah McHaney

US Election 2016

17 July 2016