What Went Down On The Final Night Of The DNC

With Lance Bottoms speaking, it’s worth noting that suburban Atlanta is going to be a very important part of the November election. If Biden is going to win Georgia, he needs to really run up margins in Atlanta but make even more gains in the suburbs there, building on what Hillary Clinton did in 2016. At the same time, a big showing for Democrats in Atlanta will be key for Jon Ossoff in the state’s regularly scheduled Senate race (there’s also a special election) and also in the state’s competitive 6th and 7th Congressional Districts.

Just as Obama used his eulogy for Lewis to call for the passage of a new Voting Rights Act, Bottoms is using this Lewis tribute to urge people to vote.

It looks like this is the night that the party embraces why Biden was chosen as the nominee. Voters saw him as “electable” or able to appeal to people who might think the Democratic Party has become too radical.