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

I kinda think these conventions are like everything else during the pandemic, where you miss the live experience at first, especially if you’re a reporter who gets to go to these things — and let’s be honest, while there are a few advantages of the virtual format, they are outweighed by the disadvantages — but before too long you get more used to it and judge it on its own merits.

Yeah, Amelia — all the rhetoric of this convention is going to be toned down by necessity, I think. “The dream shall never die” this ain’t.

Obama making the “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” argument here pretty directly.