Day 4: Takeaways from the DNC

She did it, Joe. How long can she extend the Chicago honeymoon?

“There is more coverage with less news than I think I’ve ever seen. And that’s been the progression my whole life. You’ve watched the coverage increase, the news decrease and how much of this is the media creating a first draft of history off of a play that was written by a political party?”

Is this the first draft of history or is this a mask that the media is helping to build?”

— Jon Stewart on media coverage of national political conventions

CHICAGO — On the biggest stage of her political life Thursday night, Kamala Harris presented herself as a middle-class kid who chose a career as a prosecutor to protect the vulnerable.

Left unsaid was how unlikely it was only a couple months ago for her to be standing as the first woman of color to formally accept a major party’s presidential nomination.

Harris’ speech capped an overwhelmingly optimistic national convention for Democrats, who seized the exhaustive media glare to frame their nominee as the common-sense choice when compared with Donald Trump. But after riding a honeymoon since President Joe Biden’s departure from the race a month ago, the Harris campaign is preparing for a harder road ahead, as scrutiny of the candidate and her positions is expected to intensify and she meets Trump for a Sept. 10th debate.

Here are four takeaways from the 2024 Democratic National Convention:

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