What Went Down On Night 3 Of The DNC

Democratic platforms in the past two conventions have increasingly mentioned specific social groups likely to benefit from their public policy proposals. Republican platforms and speeches are less likely to mention voter groups.

Lots of video of the women’s marches from 2017 in this segment. Those marches were a really seminal moment of these last four years and were the first sign that Trump would face an intense, organized, female-led resistance from the beginning.

Now, we’re watching a video homage to women voters. Today, women are a hugely important part of the Democratic Party coalition — but that gender gap actually a surprisingly recent phenomenon, as Meredith Conroy and I wrote on the site today.