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Welcome to the Views Room, a weekly podcast brought to you by Reuters Breaking Views.

I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, and I'm taking yet another break from our scheduled

podcast vacation to discuss this week's Democratic National Convention, which was held, well, online.

Joe Biden accepted the nomination to take on Donald Trump on Thursday night after four days of

speeches and spectacle with no unforced errors, a broadly appealing economic message, and above all, a call for

restoration of broken norms. I checked in with Anna Schumansky and John Foley in New York to get

their impressions and to limber up for next week's Republican National Convention. Give a listen.

Well, Thursday night concluded four days of the Democratic National Convention, which was supposed to be in Milwaukee, but instead was basically remote a little bit from Wilmington, Delaware.

Checking in with you, John Foley, the U.S. editor and Anna Shamansky, our columnist, I know you guys burned the midnight oil to watch these extraordinary nights of entertainment.

What, uh, John, what was your sort of sense of Biden's performance, first all,

because he is the guy people are going to vote for.

Yeah.

I mean, after wading through the full fatigue at watching people speak online,

which the last five months has instilled in me in probably most of America.

I mean, I thought it was, I thought it was good. He ticked a lot of very specific boxes. He addressed

some specifics, which was kind of interesting. It wasn't just kind of blather about unity.

You know, there was some talk, stuff that he's basically said before, but about, you know,

making the tax code work more fairly for people who work rather than people who just hold wealth,

you know, talking about infrastructure, a couple of mentions of China. But at the same time,

the focus, I mean, this is an infomercial, right? This is not a convention that chooses the nominee anymore, hasn't been for a while. It's just a big TV show that lasts all week. Anna, if it was a commercial, this wasn't for like an abdominator or anything like that, what were you buying the product? What did you think of it? Yeah, I mean, in terms of Biden, I agree. I mean, I think let's be

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