Hi folks, it's Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.

Hi, I'm Molly Zhangfast, a left-wing pundit and editor at large at the Daily Beast.

I'm also an editor at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist,

best-selling author and full-time troublemaker.

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It's night four of the Democratic National Convention and we're all a little punchy.

Rick Wilson thought...

Look, I think that there were moments of weird adjustment to this new virtual conventioning thing

that could be said to be a little cringy here and there,

but I think that they managed to get to the X, as they say,

and produce what was a presidential address by Joe Biden.

And he came out there and did a real speech that sounded like a president.

It blew up the bullshit trope from the Republican Party and from the Trump campaign

that Biden is some daughtering senile old man, you can't take him anywhere.

And he came out there and he's tore the goddamn bark off Donald Trump.

He expressed more compassion for the American people

and what they're going through than Donald Trump has managed in four years in office.

I thought his speech tonight, the guy waited a long time to get there,

but he got there and he took his best swing and I think he did very well.

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