guest: and the democratic party has criteria for those, and elected democratic member of congress, democratic governor, state party chair and and they have a category for former notables who are former democratic presidents or vice president. host: brian in las vegas. democratic caller. caller: hello. my question is with the divide in the country becoming wider and with the wealth gap becoming wider, why would the democratic party not planned for something like this? right now it looks like the aristocrat -- aristocratic class of the democratic party is picking who they want to be the next president. guest: i think the democratic party position and the pushback from the democratic party would be that these delegates are local party activists. that they make an effort to have a diverse set of delegates representing different social economical classes and they make sure that they have gender balance in these delegates as well. and so it is certainly a select group of people. but the democratic party would disagree that it is an aristocratic class of people. there are certainly ordinary people w

host: alabama, randy, langford democrats. -- line free democrats.ler: there is no way on gods green earth i would ever vote for kamala harris. she is not fit to run for president. host: you say that as a democrat? caller: is a democrat. lifelong, 60 years. and never vote for another one. host: who is the last democrat you voted for? caller: i didn't vote last time. there was no way i would vote for joe biden. but this time i will be voting for donald trump. the only one that is even worth thinking about having. kamala harris is record is terrible. we don't need her running the united states. you all have a blessed day. host: go ahead. guest: i want to talk about records, and set a clear distinction between both of the candidates. witnessing one man who was a six time failed businessman who has been bankrupt six times, a two time to impeach president, a convicted felon and has attempted to stage an insurrection. someone who has trampled over the most foundational document of our country, our constitution. if we want to talk about records, i think tha

that is a state that democrats would love to put into pay. -- that is a state that democrats would love to put into play. not only is she competitive in the blue wall states, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin, but across the sun belt states, nevada, arizona, georgia, and maybe north carolina. having that broader map makes a huge difference in giving you multiple paths to winning the election. doyle: let's shift gears to message and policy. before we do that, let me remind our audience that you can send questions by x, the former twitter, to @brookingsgov, and you can include #dmctake aways, please include your email address when you do that. elaine, i want to ask about policy and ideology. so much the nitty-gritty of policy, -- not so much the nitty-gritty of policy, but what was the larger message of this convention and its nominee about what democrats are offering, what being a democrat means in 2024. alexzandria bell took what h -- alexandria ocasio-cortez, the congresswoman from the bronx, tweeted at one point that you are seeing an alarming trend of democrats in array. there wa

i am open to voting for a democrat which would be my first time voting for a democrat in my life. but i think my biggest concern right now is the fact that we are so polarized and we don't have any unity. we look at each other as enemies. it is enough. we are all americans and should be able to come together. we are a great country. and i hope to see, especially biden today who has been a unifying figure in his career and i hope he shows some of that in today's speech. host: ok, ethan, a republican opened a voting for the democrats in november. the party platform will be voted on tonight. this is a look at some of the language in the platform. grow the economy from the bottom up and then out. lower costs. combat climate change. protect communities from gun violence. protect voting, abortion and lgbtq+ rights. secure the border. advance bidens unity agenda. strengthen u.s. diplomacy. that is some of what you will hear from the party platform. in this argument, it also mentions the current president 280 seven times. former president is mentioned 150 times and vp kamala harris, the d

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the democrats -- it was a clichÉ. democrats were the working-class party.look at the way parties are evolving in terms of their coalition, it is clearly neither one of those. democrats are no longer the working-class party, and certainly republicans, it is silly to think of them as the country club party. chris: voter propensity is a problem for republicans, because republicans used to have this advantage -- the rule is basically more educated, more affluent people voted at a higher propensity. and when the republican coalition rested in the suburbs and more affluent people in their old coalition, they punched above their weight, and it was harder for democrat was t folks out. turnout was a problem. how do republicans address the numeral?? sara: there is some of that. here are still going to the shift so you end up with suburban voters being a huge swing bloc, suburban voters because they are college educated, it means they are shifting to the left, but they are still pretty conservative on a lot of economic issues and they are moving to the right. turnout

democrats. we have seen it with the so-called squad and how they have stood up over the past few years and argued within their own party over key issues. and so that is something plaguing democrats right now is this progressive versus traditional democrat and where do we want the future of the party to be? host: david in concorde, north carolina. democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. i was going to ask the lady when she said that donald trump was fact checked about no one dying on january the sixth. he said that ashli babbitt got killed. she was shot by an officer of the district of columbia and killed. and on top of that the abortion act. while you are talking out is i want to commit murder with this child. that is what you are saying. if you think it is ok to commit murder, you all go ahead and have a blessed day. host: comment? guest: on the ashli babbitt thing, he has said that a lot and it was true that she was shot at the u.s. capitol. but yesterday during his press conference he s

democrat. caller: i agree with the rust belt situation but i am from north carolina and there are problems in the south as well. industrial things have left ear and left the areas destitute. that is one area to tackle. the other area is the fact that race plays a part in it. the whole situation up until the 1960's, the late 1960's was everybody shift from democrat to republican has a lot to do with race. people in the rust belt areas are suffering, but then they were hard workers. they have this pitiful story. what about african-americans, we have been through the same process and stepped on so long and everybody blames us for it. we have been right beside everybody in this country working very hard as well. host: jeff allen in chicago, illinois sent us something like that. what is the major difference between the white working class the non-working-class if you can address both of those questions? guest: the first question, i cannot agree more. race played a significant role, especially in the

and the democrats are in cahoots with these anarchists. right?now, profoundly, and it was -- profoundly inaccurate. it was a smear. but that was the beginning of that smear. >> i revere this office but i love my country more. judy: fast forward to today, when a sitting democratic president has stepped aside, a conflict rages overseas that's re-ignited tensions on the left, there are renewed pushes for women's rights and racial equality, and the republican presidential candidate, mself a recently convicted felon facing more charges, is running on a promise of "law and order." >> i think the parallels don't really rise above the level of the superficial. conventions are very different now than they were in 1968, in part because of 1968. in 1968, the guy who became the presidential nominee of the democratic party didn't enter a single primary. basically, the delegates decide who to vote because political bosses told them to. and these were deals made in backrooms, often at the convention. judy: following 1968, the democratic party reformed its nomin

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we have lost our home to the democrat party. greta: linda is in minneapolis, democratic caller.re you excited to hear from your governor tonight? caller: yes i am. the issue i want kamala to bring up is sending weapons to israel and what is she going to do about that, and the cease-fire and everything, just like bernie sanders said last night. greta: ok. linda wants that topic addressed by the nominee when she speaks on thursday night to officially accept the presidential nomination for the democratic party. let's go back to the convention floor with susan swain and more of a preview of this third night of the democratic national convention. susan: thank you, greta. we are on the floor with a familiar face to c-span, david mirus from the washington post, a biographer of bill clinton and that's why we wanted to talk to you. bill clinton being at this party means what to him and the state of the party? david: if lbj had gone to the 1996 convention where clinton was renominated and given a speech, that's the equivalent of bill clinton giving a speech today for harris. this is his 1

just in kind media hundreds of millions of contributions from the phony press the democrat party democratns of dollars to create a fiction of our great new historic leader with paid tv ads party surrogates spread out from capitol hill in different organizations from within the media telling us what to think, what kamala harris really believes. she is not flip-flopping, massive propaganda, brainwashing obligation like authoritarian regime she will eventually deign us and honor us with an interview may be a couple of debates she will show a little ankle here and there. but nothing that might reveal her grand planned. her past record, or incoherence, her babblings, her anger. remember that? her staff all the time uses the f word now she smiles and laughs and is joyful. complete fiction re-created image. that is all it is not going to give us anything that will pierce this fictional veil to protect her from us, we the people we are the unwashed. we have just got to go along with this just go vote and vote for her. this is democracy according to the democrat party and its media. this is what t

white house's, democratic campaigns, former democratic cabinet secretaries, former democratic presidencies did not see any of that at the rnc. david: that is good and bad. it is good because you get a lot of superstars. i was in the white house several months ago and one of the big important meetings broke up out of this room called the roosevelt room, and all the people walked out. i knew them all. i knew them all not only from this time, but from 20 years ago. so there's a lot of the same people have been in democratic administrations through obama and through clinton. so if you are a country that wants change, where 70% say we want change, you are thinking, well, kind of the same old crew. so i think harris has been very smart to pick up a lot of those obama people to help run the campaign, because they do know what they are doing. but i think it is something to watch out for. can she say i am your change agent here? which donald trump, for all his flaws, can say i am your change agent, even know he has already been president. so that is something to pay attention to. amna: how does she

he said i did not leave the democrat party, the democrat party left me.ish we had a different candidate from trump. i have become a lot more conservative in my old age, but my point is what i am concerned about, the use of the word attack. i hear it used consistently by you, and you guys do a great job compared to what is out there. but i wish people would start saying instead of using the word attack if we consider the word criticize. i think it would go a little to relieving some of the tensions. when i hear people say whining and things like that, it would be nice if they can use words like concern. because all of these derogatory terms the media is consistently hammering us with this not really serve the people. they deserve to be informed. host: your line is a little bit difficult to understand. it is breaking up, but i think we understood your point, so t so let's hear now -- we have a text message that says both units are not talkingut the most important subject that affects every american, sri up social security and medicare. what are their plans

he said i did not leave the democrat party, the democrat party left me. wish we had a different candidate from trump. i have become a lot more conservative in my old age, but my point is what i am concerned about, the use of the word attack. i hear it used consistently by you, and you guys do a great job compared to what is out there. but i wish people would start saying instead of using the word attack if we consider the word criticize. i think it would go a little to relieving some of the tensions. when i hear people say whining and things like that, it would be nice if they can use words like concern. because all of these derogatory terms the media is consistently hammering us with this not really serve the people. they deserve to be informed. host: your line is a little bit difficult to understand. it is breaking up, but i think we understood your point, s t so let's hear now -- we have a text message that says both units are not talking but the most important subject that fects every american, shoring up socl curity and medicare. what are their plans

it was democrats, and democrats alone. and that was not enough. we immediately turned around and we said we need to build bridges in this country. for four years under donald trump, infrastructure week had been a joke that showed up on late-night television over and over. what happened? democrats reached out to republicans, and we passed the biggest infrastructure package in history. and not enough that we said roads and bridges. we also said good jobs, good union jobs, in that bill. you are going to spend public money, then it is going to be to create more livable wage jobs. and we could have quit there, but we did not. we turned right around and past the biggest climate package in the history of the world, and more money for construction as well. all these were paid for, but this one is close to my heart. that one was paid for by a 15% minimum tax on billion are corporations. -- billionaire corporations. ok, three would have been a miracle, but democrats went for four. the last when we passed was the chips and science bill. bringing manufacturin

and i don't support him but that's not democratic either. it is hypocritical on the democrats part. in they mischaracterized the roe v. wade decision, too. they say the republicans are taking women's rights away from them. when in reality, it just goes back to the individual state and some great man said that democracy is best when it's closest to the people. how much closer could you get than the people of each individual state deciding their abortion laws? host: this headline from abc news. the article is from may. says democracy is a top concern for many voters. we asked them why. and the article says voter feel -- voters feel unrepresented with little recourse. across the board, voters were deeply frustrated over the state of democracy suggesting that the country was off on the wrong track and expressing pessimism about whether it could improve. they were also dissatisfied with the candidates they had to choose from. democracy won't get better in our lifetime, one voter said. several participants expressed the idea that the government was not representing the will of the people

and, or were held by democrats. those so either get back or the wind mass, so they'll have the house. garland same question to you. give us your thoughts on the white house, the senate and the house. it's um, i think donald trump wins the white house. handily. i think what we're looking at is something, you know, in politics, it's important understand that you're looking at a snapshot in time. and that's one of the why. the reason that one of the reasons that i've been trying to use a historical context when it comes to campbell harris based on a number of things, not the least of which being, you know, her personal appeal as an individual. you know, one of the things that i think is going on right now is there is a certain you for you, the you for is based on the concept of carol. i have to campbell harris as a full, as opposed to the person has gambling. however, she's an attractive woman, she's a woman of color, whatever that really means. i don't know. um, there are people in the black community who are now sayi

democrat line.aller: good morning. i have to agree with ms. heidi and the other caller. we have a lot of rural areas so people are not communicating with them. i have friends who are republican, democrat, black, white and hispanic. they get along. they are not concerned with what party but concerned with a farm bill and things like that. and i think people need to focus on trying to be for all people. because that is what we want in a president. somebody who can unite us and fight for us and who can help all of us. i've refused to fall out with my neighbors who are republican or independent over politics. but they need to go out to the rural areas because they are often forgotten about like the low income areas all over the united states. thank you for taking my call. host: i will go on the last point that i think that they are a forgotten block. would you agree with that? guest: absolutely. i think that in north dakota, part of the rural makeup and the entire state with the exception of a couple of

i am democratic. host: call us back on the democratic line.et's go to douglas in new hampshire on the independent line. caller: yeah, so, nobody voted for kamala harris. the democratic party has nothing to do with democracy. this is how it's done in china. the party picks the person and tells the people, this is who you are voting for. they stole it from bernie twice, now they stole it from biden. this isn't how things are done in the united states of america. host: joe in new jersey, democrat, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i tuned in relatively late last night, when aoc was speaking. what struck me was looking at the audience. that is the america that i want to live in, where there is a plurality of people. and even though we have a lot of differences about our ideas, that we talk about those differences. i didn't see anything like that at the republican convention, which i also watched and also tuned into late. i want to live in a world where all of us are represented and in a world and a country where we

democrats do not fix it. their neoliberal agenda of austerity, privatization, endless war, and big tax breaks for the wealthy, that is part of what is driving the rise of the right across the world. in france, we saw what the real solution is. it was the small parties that got together and offered a true left agenda. that is how they beat right wing extremism. the democratic party will not do that because they are in the hands of their big donors, of billionaires and bankers and big pharma and all that. host: christine in michigan, good morning. caller: i did not hear you except once before, so i did not hear where you stood on vaccines. and the public school. guest: on the question about vaccines is a requirement for school, is that what you are saying? ok. so as a medical doctor i have followed these issues for a while and my feeling is they change. it depends on what vaccine you are talking about. and what illness you are talking about. i think we have seen where kids can be at risk and schools can be a mo

more democrats saying they were going to show up to vote. that boosts her poll numbers and that continues to this day. we now see democrats matching republicans on that expressed likelihood to turn out. so when you watch the convention, look for them to try to keep that enthusiasm up. that's number one. number two on your question about defining kamala harris. so you see 1/3 of voters say they still don't know exactly what she stands for. >> interesting. >> interesting but maybe not surprising, right? because this is all so new, this reset race. well, that's part of the defining the space in which that contest within the contest to define her is going to be fought, and the other part, i think, on that is how similar or different is she to joe biden? because joe biden was trailing in his race, right? but democrats still like him. so we asked people how similar is she? and the bulk of voters say they think she's mostly similar in policies and views to joe biden but not exactly similar. and she does better among the mostly group. so that's that

his democratic opponent, another rising democratic star who flipped a purple district in 2018. he has a great biography, played college football at baylor and played in the nfl. he got in law degree and worked in the obama administration won a seat in congress. he is a strong fundraiser. the ingredients in this race, texas is becoming more democratic. it is slow but clear over the last 15 years, texas has shifted from a republican state into a state that is increasingly purple. the growth of the suburbs in dallas and houston, san antonio and austin, which are so increasingly democratic, as relate moved the state from one that would have voted for george w. bush, but even mitt romney by high double digits to one it will probably be between four and eight points on the republican side. that creates an opportunity for a candidate and then you have ted cruz is just unpopular. he has made decisions across his political career that have made and not particularly well liked in the state of texas. part of the reason why it was so close in 2018 is because people didn't like him or didn'

jane from minnesota, democrat. am keeping an eye on the harris-walz campaign event happening in rochester, pennsylvania. a number of speakers have been up before a crowd and as soon as vice president harris takes the microphone, we will take you to live coverage of that event. right now, let's go to a call from eric watching us in maryland on our other line. caller: my name is eric. this is going to be my first time to vote. we realize when mr. biden and kamala harris offered to the spanish people, they're going to make some good things for them, like immigration reform. we expect a lot of things from them. they changed mr. biden for kamala. we like hispanics and we expect something more serious. we feel like they lied. at this time i am a republican because not only because of mr. trump, we are trying to keep the conservative party because as christians, we respect other people but, when people start to asserting all of these things against families like abortion, like l-whatever so many letters, it's not going to

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every democrat in the country is relieved. >> i think democrats today feel a kind of joy and relief that i personally have not seen in eight years? a constant slog and a joyous flight -- fight now and i think people are relieved. >> no one questioning the fact the democratic party seems much better position than they did two days ago. >> this party needed this tonight. >> jesse: talking about biden like he is dead and he's just going to california on vacation and he is still the president for the next five months and his back is a little soar from all the knives in it but the number 1 rule of a silent coup is never admit it happened. >> know i have not spoken to nancy and no one influence my decision or knew it was coming. >> jesse: everyone know pelosi was behind the coup and democrats wearing the godmother pen with nancy face on it because she ordered the hit. during his speech, the crowd started chanting we love joe and she could barely say the dead man's name. >> that was my daughter. >> jesse: like a nasty x., the only thing nancy loves about joe is that he is gone and democrats put

the democratic national convention.hear that? >> ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave? o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? ♪ ♪ joe: and that is exactly why we are here tonight, long before we get to the politics. the national anthem and a great rendition. a live performance for you on bloomberg tv and radio as we give you a front row seat to the action on night four ahead of kamala harris's speech. i am joe mathieu alongside kailey leinz and we are just getting started here on bloomberg. adding the voices now of jonathan tamari of bloomberg government. great to see both of you. your specialty is covering chicago as our bureau chief. there was so much talk about tens of thousands of protesters shutting down the city of chicago on this final night. is that story a bostick? -- a bust? >> it was interesting to see how chicago prep

are democrats replacing to keep same message? here with his take is 2020 democratic candidate "theandrew >> aianna nicole andrew yang. we know where kamala stands, then you have old guard speaking like chuck schumer, nancy pelosi and the obamas. what is the message here, how do they connect everyone in the democratic party? >> i'm particularly excited both parties are talking about bringing back bigger child credit. if people remember getting 3 or 400 per month for books, fuel, whatever you want to spend for your family is a compelling message. j.d. vance is for it and democrats are going big on it saying 6000 per year for a child, 500 a month, lowering prescription drug prices is widely possible, getting medical debt down. most americans with get excited about this, regardless where you are politically. >> ainsley: it is honeymoon phase, polls show they normally have a five-point uptick during this week traditionally speaking. 41 months into the presidency harris and biden, prices for inflation up 20.2%. under donald trump 6%, o

i attended my first democratic convention at the age of six in backbend the democrats were chut authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism and unjust wars. we were the party of labor, of the working class. the democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment. our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power. true to its name, it was the party of the moxie at -- of democracy. as you know i left that party in october because it had departed so dramatically on the core values i grew up with. it had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag and big-money. when it abandoned democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president, i left the party to run as an independent. the main stream of american politics and journalism derided my decision. conventional wisdom said it would be impossible to get on the ballot as an independent because each state poses an insurmountable tangle of arbitrary rules for collecting signatures. i would need ov

this district is 98% democrat and we believe in peace.istent in her understanding that to do right is to be about, literally, tenets of the civil rights movement and we were, again, agents of peaceful struggle. i will follow in her footsteps. you know what you will get out of me if you know what you have seen from ms. barbara. she is a living legacy and she is nowhere near done. she will be working with me and she will have an international footprint she was the first person to call for a cease-fire on that floor and i stand with her. >> i remember, among many other things i did with congresswoman lee, we were both in south africa for the first election in 1994 that they had ever had there and we were observers together with nelson mandela and the african national congress became the ruling party and new president of south africa. lateefah simon, thank you for being with us. >>> next, my final thoughts about two great political fighters , who made this week's democratic convention possible. stay with us. cut! another health insurance comm

so she is restoring the democratic support for the party. and that's primarily with men of color latina and black men, and also young voters so the more she can speak about getting a cease fire in gaza, and the more she can speak about the environment, which are two issues that are key for young voters, the better she'll do with that demographic. >>so what are democrats really need to accomplish this week? on friday, we have the final report card. i mean, we saw donald gain, donald trump gain momentum after the assassination attempt, as well as announcing his vp pick right before he formally accepted the nomination. do democrats need to match the energy of the republican convention >>well, they do, and the republican convention, if you recall, was exuberant because it seemed like he was going to coast to a win that's donald trump, the democratic convention, i think, will actually have a different tenor so they're certainly setting it up to be, you know, kind of this apocalyptic talk from trump versus joy and hope and also the past versus the

all democratic events. so there are avenues for republicans to win the senate but one positive thing i will say for democrats in the senate right now is that setting west virginia aside, they haven't really wrapped up any of these other races and there has been very limited polling in montana. there was one from emerson college last week that had she he up two over tester. democrats leading in the other races, though it doesn't mean that they are over or anything. so you know, it's not over but the republicans have so many avenues where the map just looks good for them. host: has the shakeup on the democratic ticket change the calculus at all? guest: well, the polling would say no because democratic senate candidates generally do a lot better than biden was doing. one thing we might see is that if harris improves, she might start catching up to those candidates and ultimately in this era you would expect with senate and presidential results to be fairly similar, though there will be some limited number of p

but in 1968, there was a traumatized democratic party. the party itself was deeply divided between the anti-vietnam war behind eugene mccarthy and the johnson administration, represented by the sitting vice president. inside and outside the arena -- mayor daley over policed. they did not have modern security apparatus. they did not have helicopters telling you where to go. they were not able to use anything to do with modern security apparatus. then the cyber world in general. so it was dominated by the protesters -- the tear gas the beatings. counterculture figures became stars. the poet allen ginsberg, the absurdist writer terry southern. you had abby hoffman, jerry rubin there was a circus, commotion. people are speaking in cafes now, sipping tea, and it is pretty calm, downtown chicago. but i do think in chicago there is security, security, because former president trump was shot in pennsylvania. there is that inexplicable framing. the chicago police department has partnered with illinois, the state, the governor. they have kind of a

i mean, look how democrats have changed. obviously 2016, you had michelle obama saying, we're going to go high when the republicans go hello, 2020, biden would really never mentioned trump by name. he really tried to make a focus on the issues. now, this campaign is all trump, trump, trump, look at trump. he is weird, right? so we've seen this evolution among democrats just trying to take trump the maga movement head-on. and i have to say, you know, there was that enthusiasm, but the harris campaign is very aware that this hope, this feeling of hope and change that many democrats were saying they felt from the obama era has come back through harris. they know that that doesn't necessarily move those disaffected voters and those are the people that they're trying to turn out. and it's something, it's part of their strategy to go to southern georgia because it's interesting hearing them say, you know, we know we're going to lose some of these areas. we want to lose less. that is exactly what i hear from those very moderate swi

he basically is the democratic party of illinois. and you have mayor brandon johnson speaking monday night, the traditional opening slide of the mayor of the host city welcoming the people to chicago. mayor johnson has had a pretty rocky launch since his election a year ago, and it is going to be interesting to see him address the national stage, a former union organizer for the chicago teachers union, which is one of the most politically powerful teachers unions in the country, and certainly unions in chicago. they are in the midst right now, the chicago public schools some of the teachers union, are in the midst of contract negotiations. mayor johnson has asked the state of illinois for over $1 billion in support from state government. there's a number of issues that there have been some tensions between him and governor pritzker on and basically involving money from springfield. pritzker, during his tenure, has been a very solid money manager for the state of illinois. the state has seen a number of, i believe at least eight credi

for democratic national convention.onight, vice president kamala harris will formally accept the party's nomination, making history as the first black and south asian woman to do so. to mark the occasion, you will see a sea of white inside the united center on the floor tonight. delegates have been told to wear that color as a nod to the suffragist movement. the new york times reporting that vice president harris speech will seek to do three things, tell her life story, frame her candidacy is one for the future, and to make her peel patriotic one. tonight we expect the gavel to come down around 6:30 p.m. eastern time, and the theme for our future. the vice president is slated to deliver her remarks around 10:45 p.m. eastern time. following her remarks will be that iconic balloon drop, hundreds of thousands of balloons dropped from the ceiling onto the convention floor. before we get to all of that, a conversation with you, our viewers. what do you want to hear from the vice president tonight? what topics should she addr

tonight was a phenomenal night and if you're a democrat, you should be a proud democrat from a main all the way from guam. you should be excited about what we are about to do and the shift that's about to take place in november. tonight, the democratic party did two things. they delivered a sound message on economic reform and they delivered a compare and contrast of who we can be, who we aspire to be, what this nation is built of, and where we could go if donald trump is elected. i want to give a big shout out to the tennessee delegation, to my chair, the first black chair from the tennessee state democratic party. and shout out to all democrats and make sure that you have a safe travel home coming back to tennessee, so thank you so much. and you have a great night. host: thanks for your call, sean. in just a minute or so, we are going to replay the full session of day two. if you are on the west coast, you missed some of the earlier part of it, it will be here for you. i also wanted to tell you that each individual speaker of this convention has been catalogued separately on our c-spa

and it suites us house democrats work on this said the democratic party is making quote, a tragic mistake perpetuates in the rage of protest invoices, likening it to the ratio of palestinian political, divides by britain turner classic house representative in michigan a. but i also read the data is off of dnc cannot claim to one piece in gaza, but actually for the ability for protest in is to speak the truth. also, the group muslim women for harris announced the dispensing and withdrawing support for the statement. they say the family of these very hostage that was on the stage tonight as shown, more empathy towards pedestal and americans and palestinians. and the candidates, or the d. n. c has what's all right. cultural is an attorney, a protestant in human rights activist, and board member of american wisdom. as a protestant in chicago, he thinks the democratic party is not giving up that form to a palestinian speaker, because they would highlight the hypocrisy when it comes to us. policy on johnson of this decision is just not just a moral failing. it's a severe political miscalculatio

kinder like a jim webb democrat. i would have went for him but the party doesn't invite us back in this any serious way. has the necessary part of what's been going of on over these last three days. thank you. >> thank you so much, vincent in englishtown, new jersey. if you would like to watch any of the individual speeches tonight the good folks who work at our website have cataloged each one of them by name. you can search them very easily if you go to c-span.org not only for the three nights of the democratic convention and any of the speeches from the republican convention. speaker by speaker. easy to search. back to the floor with greta. >>> we're here with alex a reporter with the hill newspaper. they doapght want to leave the spotlight tonight. >> that's right. it has been several minutes since the convention wednesday night closed. they are chant chanting go tim. the minnesota fight song at one point. they are not going home any time soon and they are very excited about their gornor being possibly the next vi

people had to go back and look at the rules of the democratic party, of the democratic convention, and is that needed to be done. they follow the process. in that sense he is absolutely incorrect. the delegates all had to decide who they were going to support, and they did that. they follow the rules to a t. in that sense he is reporting ms. truths sump -- mistruths someone in the same way we have become accustomed to donald trump during the same. was she voted on during any of the caucuses and primaries? no, she was the vice president or candidate, not the presidential candidate. but she has not been appointed. we do not have a monarchy in the united states. she had to fight for the votes of everything will delegate who cast their votes for her and made her the democratic nominee . >> let's bring you in on the stage, too, rfk, jr., saying he is throwing his support to donald trump. the reasons he is doing that he says because of free speech, the war in ukraine, and the war on our children. what does he mean by that? >> well, i'm not sure what he means by that exactly. there were repor