The 2024 Democratic National Convention is now history. Here’s your scorecard as we head to November.
Most Americans know how they’re going to vote. So, it all comes down to the few who don’t know who they will support or aren’t sure they will vote. The target for coming television ads and rally speeches will be independents, undecided voters, people with a poor record of regularly voting and Republicans who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Donald Trump in the GOP primaries.
But first, Democrats had to energize their base, especially young minorities. Biden, by every measure was a good president in my mind. But young Democrats, minority Democrats, especially the far-left, wanted a Batman to confront the Joker — a hero to defeat the villain.
Biden once defeated Trump, but his poor performance in the now-infamous June debate drained Democrats’ confidence. Last week’s Democratic Convention proved to be the antidote.
This convention was the best convention I’ve attended in 40 years of attending both Democratic and Republican conventions. It’s not even close.
The Democratic roll call, set to music with a thumping beat set by a DJ on stage — and with a rapper coming down the aisle to introduce the Georgia delegation — stands as an instant classic of convention theatre.
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