Hi, this is Newt.

Do the virus.

I'm recording from home.

So you may notice a difference in audio quality.

On this episode of Newt's World, I want to talk about the two great conventions that

just ended.

And I say great conventions because when the two national parties bring themselves together

from all over the country, it is an extraordinary moment for freedom, for the American people

to talk to themselves and to have a sense of all the things that are going on.

And sometimes conventions have a way of sharing the real internal image of the two parties.

It's interesting, for example, has been very under reported that the Democrats actually

had about a third of their delegates voting against their platform.

I think of some 1200 votes against the platform.

It's also interesting that Biden basically was high out of the picture until the last

night, whereas Trump was in the picture every single day.

Tells you both about their personalities, but also their political calculus.

Biden and many of these are very conventional conventions.

Even if it was basically a Zoom meeting and fairly boring, but it didn't break free.

Trump, on the other hand, did things like participating in a naturalization ceremony with

new American citizens who came from Lebanon, Bolivia, India, Ghana, and Sudan.

On night, too, he pardoned John Ponder, a former bank robber who went on to dedicate his

life to help other prisoners.

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