Thursday, August 22, 2024
BY CROOKED MEDIA
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Kamala Harris has already dramatically reset the presidential race. Tonight may be her best chance to turn that early momentum into a sustained dash to the finish.
- It can be hard to grasp he warp-speed changes that Vice President Kamala Harris has brought to the entire American political landscape in the space of just five short weeks. The Democratic ticket is now the favorite, by a slim margin, to win the presidential election, according to a new prediction model released by one veteran analyst. A few weeks ago, President Biden was on the defensive even in Democratic strongholds like Virginia and Minnesota. Now, Harris polls surprisingly well in places where Democrats typically lose, like North Carolina and even Florida. Seemingly every heavyweight political commentator still expects this race to be very close. But there’s little question that Harris has the momentum: Americans’ favorable rating of Harris has increased 13 points since June, according to Gallup. And these past few weeks have, in a sense, been preamble to the big political set piece she'll perform tonight: the convention acceptance speech.
- It’s a particularly big moment for Harris. Unlike, for example, former President Barack Obama, she’s never given a big, breakout speech to establish her origin story at a convention before. Her Vice Presidential nomination speech in 2020 was disrupted by the pandemic, as Politico pointed out. Lots of other presidents have already had such moments at a prior convention by the time they catch their party’s nomination. Obama’s came in 2004, with an electrifying appearance that propelled him to the White House four years later. For Harris, tonight’s that big chance. There are only a few scheduled performances in any campaign that can match the convention speech for singular impact. And in this ultra-condensed race, there may be no other such events left except for the presidential debate now scheduled for September 10.
- Harris is expected to lean into her personal narrative in tonight’s speech, including how and why she became a prosecutor. It’s a saga that hinges on a story about the time Harris’ best friend moved in with her, after Harris found out the father was molesting her. Harris is also expected to blast disgraced former President Trump over his links to the notorious Project 2025. And she’s expected to lean into expressing her patriotism — and talk about how fighting for ideals is patriotism’s highest calling, according to Playbook.
- What’s more, she’s going to be joined tonight by some serious star power. Rumors are flying that Beyoncé herself will make an appearance — now that Harris has been using the artist’s song, “Freedom,” as a campaign anthem. We’ll find out what really happens when you do. For now, the full official schedule is here.
Lights up: it’s showtime.
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Over the raucous booms of joy and freedom at the Democratic National Convention, it’s difficult to hear anything else. But party leaders have decided that voices of the Uncommitted National Movement will not be part of the chorus. More than 500,000 Ameircans cast protest votes in the Democratic Primary elections as means of sending a message to the party and then-candidate President Joe Biden over handling of the war in Gaza, securing the movement 30 delegates to send to the DNC. But as of this final day of the convention, it appears that the movement’s request for a Palestinian American or a doctor who has volunteered in Gaza be allowed to speak has been officially denied.
On Wednesday night, parents of one of the hostages taken by Hamas on the October 7 attack, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg, delivered a moving speech from the DNC main stage, and offered some of the most explicit words of compassion for Palestinians that had been uttered at the convention heretofore. Mother Jones obtained the speech that Palestinian American State Rep. Ruwa Romman (D-GA) is still hoping to give, but the clock is running out. The DNC did not return requests for comment from the outlet about why negotiations with Uncommitted representatives ended.
An excerpt from the final paragraph of Romman’s would-be speech is below.
Let’s commit to each other, to electing Vice President Harris and defeating Donald Trump who uses my identity as a Palestinian as a slur. Let’s fight for the policies long overdue — from restoring access to abortions to ensuring a living wage, to demanding an end to reckless war and a ceasefire in Gaza. To those who doubt us, to the cynics and the naysayers, I say, yes we can — yes we can be a Democratic Party that prioritizes funding our schools and hospitals, not for endless wars. That fights for an America that belongs to all of us — Black, brown, and white, Jews and Palestinians, all of us, like my grandfather taught me, together.
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We have some big live shows coming up! On September 12, Lovett or Leave It is pre-gaming the Emmys with a special show at the Bourbon Room in Los Angeles. It’s an even bigger venue for even bigger laughs, or echoic silence, depends on how the producers do that week. Jane Fonda, Louis Virtel, Zachary Quinto, and more very special guests will join Lovett on stage. After LA, Lovett or Leave It heading to Pittsburgh on October 4th, which is just one month out from the election! PLUS. Pod Save America is headed to the swing-states, with a show in Phoenix on September 7th, Ann Arbor on October 5th, and Philadelphia, on October 6th. If you want to see our faces smile or cringe in real time as we witness the most consequential election of our lives, get tickets to all of those events and more at crooked.com/events.
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MyPillow guy and MAGA conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell shaved his mustache and donned sunglasses to sneak “incognito” into the Democratic National Convention as if he were a cartoon spy. He proceeded to get into a verbal altercation with a 12-year-old content creator named Knowa, and lose. MAGA isn’t sending their best! Or actually, perhaps they are sending their best… and their best get owned by literal children.
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The Supreme Court rejected a GOP push to block more than 41,000 voters in Arizona from casting ballots in the key Sun Belt swing state. Republicans had tried to create a rule requiring voting registration forms to be accompanied by proof of U.S. citizenship.
Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) son Gus won over the internet with his emotional response to seeing his father accept the Democrats’ vice presidential nomination, when he tearfully exclaimed: “That’s my dad!” (Some depraved MAGA weirdos attempted to deride him for showing emotion, which, of course, tells us everything we need to know about these self-professed family-values types.)
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