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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The Democratic Convention, Online and United

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

President, Barack, News, Politics, Wnyc, Obama, Lizza, Washington, Wickenden

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week, the Democratic Party presented its first-ever virtual nominating Convention. Over three nights, a host of speakers—from establishment Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, to progressive figures like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to moderate Republicans like John Kasich and Colin Powell—promoted a big-tent movement to defeat Donald Trump in November. John Cassidy joins Eric Lach to discuss what the Democratic Convention tells us about the general election, and what to look forward to from the Republican Convention next week.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics.

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It's Friday, August 21st. I'm Eric Latch, staff writer at The New Yorker filling in for Dorothy Wickenden.

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I'm a proud Democrat, and I'll be proud to carry the banner of our party into the general election.

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So it's with great honor and humility.

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I accept this nomination for president of the United States of America.

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Last night, Joe Biden formally accepted the Democratic nomination for president at the party's

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virtual convention, bringing to close the Democrats' long primary season.

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The convention assembled a starry but unusual group of political figures, past White House

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occupants like the Clintons and the Obamas, progressives like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria

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Ocasio-Cortez, and even Republicans,

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