Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Wednesday, August 19, 2020. I am John Pajor. It's the editor of

commentary magazine with me as always. Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine.

Hi John. Executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi John. And associate editor Noah Rothman.

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Okay? Here we are. Second night after the second night of the Democratic

Convention. Christine, any any thoughts? Yes. Okay. So I have something positive to

say. I really I actually enjoyed the Jill Biden video. I thought it was very

humanizing for Jill Biden. I feel like she's a very she was kind of a silent

partner for those eight years as the vice president's wife. But she's obviously

you know she has a good reputation for the charity work she does. She's not a

she's not really not a grandstander or an attention seeker. She came across as

as very empathetic and and really humanized him. So I enjoyed that. I did think it

was interesting. Obviously if you're conservative, the most interesting speech

to the evening was the what 90s, some seconds that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez had

where she basically it was like speed dating with a woke, you know,

zoomer who's going to pack in every single ism and you know, complaint she has

into that little window and she did it very capably. But it was it's notable

for the fact that she got far less time even though she supposedly represents

the youthful Vanguard of the party. She got far less time than Cindy McCain and

a lot of the more moderate voices. So that those were the two things that

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