CHICAGO – One month after replacing President Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her party’s presidential nomination as she delivered the most important speech of her political career. In a roughly 40 minute speech that was the crowning and concluding moment of the four-day Democratic National Convention in Chicago’s United...
Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats had a successful convention this week in Chicago. At every juncture, they sought to rebut the attacks from their opponents. The Harris-Walz team argued over and over, and particularly effectively, I thought, in the vice president’s Thursday night speech, that they were for national unity, against ideology, for...
Did the Democratic National Convention intentionally spread rumors of a surprise Beyonce performance at their gathering on Thursday night to fill the auditorium? If so, it was a cheap trick, and says a lot about their confidence in Kamala Harris’ star power. But that is no surprise; after all, this is the same crew that...
Vice President Kamala Harris gave a ringing speech that fired Democrats up to close the Democratic convention and this more or less picture-perfect convention came to an end. Harris will likely continue to strengthen in the polls as is typical after a convention and there is no doubt that the Democrats are in better shape...
The Russian media has been exploding with minute-by-minute coverage of the Democratic National Convention this week. Practically every major Russian news outlet – from Pravda and Izvestiya to Moskovskiy Komsomolets and Kommersant – has been providing extensive reportage and analysis of our presidential election campaign. Here is why they are obsessing over the DNC and...
Former members of the Mankato (Minnesota) West High School football team took center stage at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Wednesday night in support of their former coach, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, as he formally accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president. However, social media stirred over the reference to Walz as a football...
CNN hosts discussed Wednesday how the Democratic National Convention is trying to reach men who are less “testosterone-laden,” with Gov. Tim Walz and second gentleman Doug Emhoff. “The gender gap in American politics has been trending very strongly for years. But this year, at least according to polls, it is so strong,” CNN’s Jake Tapper...
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, mocked CNN reporter Alayna Treene for fact-checking a joke he made about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. During a rally in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, Vance referenced the Democratic vice presidential candidate and his upcoming address at the Democratic National Convention by spotlighting the ongoing controversy surrounding Walz’s...
CBS host Gayle King said on Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris is “uniquely qualified” to be President of the United States, lavishing praise on the candidate she’s donated to in the past. “When I hear people say I will vote for Kamala Harris because she is a Black woman, she is so much more...
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., started her address on the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday by briefly praising President Biden – despite reportedly helping to orchestrate his exit from the presidential race. “On Jan. 20, 2021, with the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, we established one of the...
