What Went Down On Night 3 Of The DNC

Yeah, Clare, I think regular people speaking from their homes and communities might be a permanent feature of the conventions going forward. Although there is the occasional person who is effective in the convention hall. Khizr Khan caught the attention of people in the room at a sleepy moment during the convention in Philly four years ago, for instance.

Or honestly, Amelia, health care. It’s amazing to me how the question of reforming health care has fallen by the wayside with the pandemic. It makes sense, but just given the amount of oxygen it took up in the primaries (which feel like a lifetime ago) I’m surprised.

Gabrielle Giffords was doing a constituent event outside a Safeway in Tucson when she was shot in the head by a would-be assassin. She miraculously survived but had to resign from Congress; she later founded Americans for Responsible Solutions, a gun control organization now known as simply “Giffords.” Her husband, Mark Kelly, is Democrats’ candidate for U.S. Senate this year in Arizona.