It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone, with the Democratic Convention set to begin on Monday.

That's August 19th.

It's remarkable to consider, isn't it, what the presidential

race has been through just since the start of summer. The debate where President Biden looked so

unwell was on June 27th. The Trump assassination attempt was on July 13th. Biden left the race on July 21st.

Then, to many people surprised the party coalesced

instantly around Vice President Harris as the new nominee presumptive, and everything changed.

So it will be just under one month of the Harris campaign when the Democratic Convention

will begin, and what a difference that month has made.

So before going into that four-day television commercial, which I think we can call these conventions generally,

like the one the Republicans had just last month, we're going to do something now that we try not to overdo on this show,

as many of you know, that is we'll talk about the polls. Our attitude,

I've talked about this before, is generally that the political media obsessed too much on the

horse race as if politics was a sporting event and not enough on the issues. We try to keep our

issue to horse race ratio very high.

This week, for example, we haven't mentioned the polls at all until now.

Our presidential race segments have been about Tim Wall's education about genocide when he was a geography teacher.

Walls' climate record.

J.D. Vance calling for parents to have more votes than adults without

children. Vance is forward to the new book by the architect of Project 2025 and the comparison that

we had yesterday of Harris versus MAGA conservatives over their different conceptions of freedom.

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