Yeah, Oprah, from the Democratic Convention.

It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

And now for the Democrats, the next phase of their work

begins, as does the Trump campaign's work of stopping Harris's momentum.

And here we are on just the Monday morning after the convention, and an interesting development is that a kind of role reversal is taking place

around the Trump-Harriss televised debate or debates that will presumably take place.

Have you heard this one yet? Remember it was the Biden campaign who

asked CNN to shut the mic of the campaign of the candidate if it wasn't their

turn to speak in the debate in June. That was to keep Trump from shouting over everything to dominate the night,

which was a problem in the 2020 debates.

Now political reports that the Harris campaign is saying it wants both their mics to remain open at all times and the

Trump campaign is so far saying no. We'll talk about that script being flipped

and more now with Philip Bump, national columnist for the Washington Post.

Hi Philip, thanks for joining. Welcome back to WNYC.

Of course, thanks for having.

And we'll get to the new debate over the debates, but can you start with the impact of the convention, however it can be measured at this point.

Expert consensus certainly seems to be that it was a smashing success on several levels and one that interests me

is that it seems to have helped to mobilize an army of volunteers and small donors to the Harris campaign.

That by itself is a big contrast to when Biden was in the race.

Are you seeing any of that?

Right.

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