Two conventions, two American realities

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🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Political correspondent Dan Balz looks back at two very different conventions that painted two different portraits of America. Plus, NBA reporter Ben Golliver and sports columnist Jerry Brewer on what happened in the bubble and what it means for the role of sports in protests against racial injustice.

Trump and Biden look to brutal fall campaign over pandemic, race and the economy

Most sports leagues pause with second day of protests, some more unified than others

NBA players set a new standard of civil disobedience. Now there’s no going back.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.8	Hi, this is Vanessa Williams from the Washington Post.
0:08.6	Hey, it's Philip Rutger at the Washington Post.
0:10.9	Do you have a minute?
0:11.9	Hi, this is Dan Zag.
0:13.6	This is Post Reports.
0:15.0	I'm routine powers.
0:19.1	It's Friday, August 28th.
0:23.5	Today what the conventions can tell us about the campaign ahead and how the NBA protests
0:29.6	could change the future of sports.
0:36.6	So Dan, describe for me exactly what it was like on this last night of the Republican
0:47.3	national convention.
0:48.3	Well, the most striking thing I think was the degree to which the Trump campaign just
0:53.8	simply appropriated the White House as a campaign backdrop.
0:58.3	And Dan Bolts is a senior political correspondent for the Post.
1:02.5	Gathered here at our beautiful and majestic White House, known all over the world as the
1:09.2	People's House, we cannot help but marvel at the miracle that is our great American story.
1:17.8	No president has ever done this.
1:19.7	The fact is I'm here.
1:25.9	What's the name of that building?
1:28.6	It's in violation of all of the traditions and perhaps illegal what they did.
1:33.7	To me, one of the most beautiful buildings anywhere in the world that is not a building,
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