One Upside For Virtual Convention? No Jeers For Controversial Speakers

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🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The Democratic National Convention's second night featured speeches from Colin Powell, Bill Clinton, Jill Biden, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — another eclectic political mix designed to bolster Joe Biden's credentials as a unifier.

Activist Ady Barkan gave a speech about his struggle with ALS that laid bare how central health care and health coverage are to the Democratic political brand, despite intraparty differences.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.6	I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.
0:07.6	I'm Danielle Kurtzleben, I cover politics.
0:09.8	And I'm one of Summers, I cover demographics and culture.
0:12.7	The time now is 11.35 pm on Tuesday, August 18th, and Joe Biden is now officially the
0:21.8	Democratic nominee for president.
0:23.7	Thank you to all our delegations.
0:37.3	As our candidate for president of the United States.
0:40.8	And this might be a moment when in a non virtual convention, balloons would fall from the sky,
0:47.0	and it would be so fun to watch the balloons.
0:51.6	And instead it was like Joe Biden in a library, maybe with his family and a bouquet of balloons.
0:59.2	You can either call it awkward or that it had some homespun charm that the rest of this
1:04.3	convention has.
1:05.3	Take your pick, your opinion may differ.
1:07.5	Thank you very, very much.
1:09.5	From the bottom of my heart, thank you all.
1:12.7	Tonight was my favorite night of every convention.
1:17.4	It's the roll call, it happens every four years where every state announces their delegates
1:23.4	and normally it's all in the big convention hall and they have their signs with the state
1:28.9	name and the whole delegation is their cheering.
1:32.3	And that was different, but it was actually so fun because you had people in random locations
1:41.6	all over the country.
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