Transcript of The Defining Moments of the D.N.C. Finale
On the final night of the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage and formally accepted her party’s nomination.After the balloons fell, Astead Herndon and his colleagues Maya King and Jennifer Medina broke down the moments that stood out to them from the night — from people touched by gun violence telling their stories to the way Ms. Harris talked about Israel and the war in Gaza to how she told her own story. Plus, there was the rumored special guest who never materialized. On today’s episode:Maya King, a politics reporter for The New York TimesJennifer Medina, a politics reporter for The New York Times
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Transcript of It’s Kamala Harris’s Party Now. What’s Different?
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Democratic National Convention tonight, formalizing her rapid ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket and capping a very unusual path to the nomination.No primary. No serious opposition. No real robust sense of what her legislative priorities might be.On today’s show, a quest to answer this question: Is a Harris-led Democratic Party substantively different than the Democratic Party of Joe Biden?As they all gathered in Chicago, we put that question to Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Shawn Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers union — and the man hosting Democrats in his town, Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson.
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