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On today's show, we're recapping the final night of the Democratic National Convention.

Yes, last night Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted the Democratic Party's

nomination for president making history as the first black woman

and the first person of South Asian descent to accept a major party's nod.

I accept your nomination to be President of the United States of America.

Now it's worth reflecting for a second on how fast all of this has happened.

In a little more than a month Harris shot to the top

of the ticket and has re-energized Democrats with less than 75 days to go until election day

so in a lot of ways Harris is still introducing herself to voters.

It's something Harris acknowledged in her speech last night and she spent a good

chunk of it talking about her own personal story. She talked about growing up in a middle-class neighborhood

in the Bay Area and spoke lovingly

about her late mother who raised Harris and her sister

after their parents split up.

My mother was a brilliant five foot tall brown woman with an accent.

And as the eldest child, as the eldest child, I saw how the world would sometimes treat her. But my mother never

lost her cool. She was tough, courageous, a trailblazer in the fight for women's health,

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