Last night was the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth.

I accept your nomination. And at the end of the night,

the United States of America.

And at the end of the night, Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage

to end the week and formally accept her party's nomination.

And after it was all over, my colleagues and I set up in our booth outside the arena

to talk through what stood out to us. From the New York Times and from the United

Tenner for the last time, I'm Astead Herndon. This is the runner. on tent that we've been recording in all week with helicopters swirling around us in the parking lot of the United Center

Can you just introduce yourselves and tell us what you typically cover?

I'm Jenny Medina I cover politics for the times and I mostly cover voters talking

to them about what they think and what they feel is the most important.

I am Maya King I cover politics in the southeast. I'm based in Georgia so I also cover that state as a battleground state and black voters nationally. Yeah and part of the reason I thought that y'all would be a great conversation for this is because we all kind of

focus on different parts of the electorate kind of what voters are saying across the

country and I think can really speak to what Democrats have been trying to do this

week in terms of building a coalition that can be as big as possible to beat

Donald Trump in November. So I want to go through one moment that mattered to each of

you all that really sticks out to how Harris is trying to build that coalition, but

before we do that I would be just curious to say,

like, how would you describe this week overall?

Like, if you could pick a word that describes how Democrats were

or what you think encapsulates the week. What would you say?

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