Jon, Jon, Tommy, and Dan reflect on Joe Biden’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, reflect on the week of speeches and moments, and look ahead to next week’s Republican National Convention.

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Show Notes 

Biden accepts the nomination

• CNN: Transcript: Joe Biden’s DNC speech
• NPR: Fact Check: Biden’s Address To The DNC, Annotated
• Full video of the speech
• Axios: Biden accepts nomination, tears into Trump for “unforgivable” COVID response
• NYT – Biden Leaves Convention With a Clear Mission: Stop Trump
• WaPo: 4 takeaways from the final night of the Democratic National Convention
• CNN: Joe Biden urges Americans to choose hope over fear in accepting Democratic nomination for president
• Dave Weigel tweet
• ABC News: A different view of the Democrats on Fox News prime time
• The Week: Joe Biden’s speech even wowed his critics: ‘Biden crushed expectations’
• The Hill: Jake Tapper: Biden’s acceptance speech was ‘one of the best, if not the best’ of his career
• Matt Mackowiak speech
• Dave Weigel response to Mackowiak
• Lara Trump tweet

DNC

• AP: Beau Biden honored at Democratic convention
• LAT – At the DNC, Joe Biden’s story is his family’s story
• Vox: Ordinary Americans stole the show at this year’s Democratic convention
• Tweet from Gabby Giffords
• Axios: 13-year-old Brayden Harrington shares advice Biden gave to help him with stutter
• NYT: ‘He Stiffed Our Party’: Bloomberg Doubts Resurface as He Speaks at D.N.C.
• WaPo: The Trailer: The Democratic Party on display this week

• New Yorker: After Two Nights, the Virtual Democratic National Convention Is Winning

• Slate: The DNC’s Roll Call Made Me Feel More Patriotic Than I Have in Years

• NPR: Reimagined Virtual Roll Call Steals The Show

• WaPo: Democrats highlight diversity at their convention — and the challenges that come with it

• NYT: TV Audiences Dip for First Night of Democrats’ Virtual Convention

• Politico: Battle of the virtual conventions: How the GOP team is studying the Democrats’ show

• Politico: This Convention Was an Eight-Hour-Long Infomercial—And a Pretty Good One

• Politico: Same cast, different story: How the virtual convention benefits Biden

• FiveThirtyEight: Why Conventions Still Matter

• The Atlantic: The Last Convention

• The Atlantic: Democrats’ Unprecedented Embrace of Gun Control 

• NYT: Democrats Set Aside Their Differences 

• WaPo: The four issues besides coronavirus that Democrats are hammering in their convention

• WaPo: Convention’s big message: Biden is a good guy

• WaPo (The Trailer): The Trailer: What mattered at the start of the Democratic convention

• Heather McGhee tweet
• The Atlantic: Sanders Supporters Realize Their Party Is Bigger Than They Are
• Daily Beast: Why the Fuck Is Creepy Bill Clinton Speaking at the Democratic Convention?
• Kasich speech transcript
• Daily Beast: DNC Favors Republicans Over Muslim and Latinx Dems, Activists Say
• Vox: The DNC’s opening message: The system isn’t broken, it just feels like it
• The New Yorker : After Two Nights, the Virtual Democratic National Convention Is Winning
• The New Yorker: A Temporary Truce at the Democratic National Convention
• WaPo: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s convention speech serves as warning to Democratic establishment and Biden
• NYT: Ocasio-Cortez Makes Symbolic Nomination of Sanders for President: Full Speech Transcript
• Kristin Urquiza full speech
• NYT: Kristin Urquiza, Whose Father Died of Covid, on Turning Grief Into Activism
• AZ Central: Kristin Urquiza, who blistered Gov. Doug Ducey in viral COVID-19 obituary, speaks at Democratic National Convention

• CNN: The DNC keynote address speech: Full video

• The Atlantic: Why the Democrats’ Keynote Fell Flat

• NYT: Keynote Speaker? How About 17 of Them 

• Vox: 5 winners and 2 losers from night 2 of the Democratic convention

• HuffPo: Democrats Had 17 Young Stars. The DNC Didn’t Give Them Any Chance To Shine.

• Jacquelyn Brittany’s speech
• Mother Jones: Joe Biden Is Officially Nominated by Jacquelyn Brittany
• WaPo: The security guard blurted ‘I love you’ to Joe Biden in an elevator. One viral video later, she nominated him for president.
• Ady Barkan’s full speech
• The Guardian: Ady Barkan delivers powerful DNC speech demanding quality healthcare 
• Daily Beast: Ady Barkan, A Man Without a Voice, Delivers Most Powerful DNC Speech on Night 2

• NYT: Ady Barkan on Progressives’ Future Under Biden

• NYT: Democratic National Convention’s Roll Call Showcases Voices from Across America

Trump and the Republican Convention

• Dave Weigel response to Mackowiak
• Matt Mackowiak speech
• CNN: Trump in overdrive to produce a blockbuster RNC that outshines Dems
• NBC News: How Republicans plan to counter Democrats’ big week
• Politico: Battle of the virtual conventions: How the GOP team is studying the Democrats’ show
• NY Mag: How Will the RNC Counter The Diversity of the DNC
• The Hill: McConnell to give taped remarks as part of GOP convention
• USA Today: Who’s speaking at the RNC? Here’s what we know so far.