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Good Tuesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Yeah, it felt weird. There's no doubt about it. The Democratic Convention,

which kicked off Monday night from people's living rooms across America, was indeed strange.

There were a lot of tweets asking what exactly we were watching.

Interviews with regular people, come on, they said. Newsflash, Playbook Universe, if you're reading

this newsletter, the likelihood is this convention's not aimed at you. You may think the whole

thing is strange, it is. But Democrats are probably not looking to please you. Here's a good test.

Have you thought one minute about whether AOC is getting slighted by only

speaking for 60 seconds? If so, this convention is not aimed at pleasing you.

Complain on Twitter or yell into a pillow. It's up to you. The idea here is to create an echo

chamber of people saying that Donald Trump is unfit for office and Joe Biden is the solution

to the nation's ills.

As Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns put it on the top of A1 of the Times, the program,

quote, span the gamut from socialist to Republicans, from the relatives of George Floyd

to family members of those killed by coronavirus.

The post, with seven bylines, put it this way.

The convention showcased dozens of testimonials that culminated in Lansing criticism from

former First Lady Michelle Obama, who cast Trump as incapable of meaning America's needs

and said Joe Biden would usher in racial justice and ease the coronavirus

pandemic. The New York Times on its front page wrote that the Democratic primary was a clash of

ideas, but the party has assembled around defeating Donald Trump. Michelle Obama was the

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