What Went Down On Night 3 Of The DNC

A consensus among FiveThirtyEighters that doing this speech at a mostly empty hall made it tough.

When we do unmuted round of applause in FiveThirtyEight all-hands meetings, it’s less awkward than this, right? … RIGHT?!?!?

Biden’s connection to Obama helped make him the most popular sitting vice president in modern times among African Americans, and obviously it helped him in with Black voters the Democratic primaries. But Biden’s Black approval dipped in runup to primaries and still hasn’t fully recovered. Harris is clearly trying to build it back up.