What Went Down On The First Night Of The Democratic National Convention

Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago, is talking about economic empowerment in her city. Worth mentioning, though, that she hasn’t been especially receptive to talk about defunding the police, which has gotten her some criticism from the left.

Normally networks can pull away from the coverage is that there’s usually a fair amount of downtime for producers and panels to work around, which is absolutely not the case in a virtual convention that is partly pre-packaged.

“Most officers are good,” Biden says in this panel discussion on systemic racism. That’s certainly a break from the rhetoric of progressive activists on this issue.