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Hello and welcome to Coffeyell Shots, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Patrick Givens and today I'm joined by

James Heel and the editor at large of the Wall Street Journal Jerry Baker.

The Democratic National Convention has drawn to a close in Chicago this week,

but how likely is a Kamala Harris victory and what could that mean for the UK? But first,

Jerry, it's been a pretty good week for Kamala Harris, hasn't it?

It has, very much so. I mean, the purpose of these conventions, you know, they used to be real

meaningful political events where parties selected a candidate and endorsed a kind of a

a program, a kind of a manifesto. They're now and have been for decades essentially extended

kind of commercials for the party and they do that well or less well. This certainly was on the better side of that spectrum.

They, in my view, they had to do a number of things. They had to do three, three core things.

One, they had to essentially bury Joe Biden. Sorry to put it as blunt as that, but they did. They just want people to just forget Joe Biden. He is a very unpopular president and they kind of want to pull off this trick of having people believe that Kamil Harris even though she's been a member,

key member of the Biden administration for the last four years somehow has nothing to do with it.

They were able to do that they got rid of Joe Biden on the first night.

Didn't mention him again pretty well except with other occasional sort of nice touching references to him.

The second thing they had to do was to essentially present Kamala Harris, define Kamala Harris and present

her to the nation.

And they did that throughout the week.

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