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Kamala Harris Wants to Win
The Democratic presidential nominee’s speech on Thursday night sought to persuade.
EZRA KLEIN: It is Thursday, Aug. 22. We are just back from the arena having watched Kamala Harris accept the Democratic nomination for president. She gave a speech, I think was quite extraordinary and also quite unusual by the standards of recent Democratic convention speeches. She did quite a lot, I think, to define herself to the country but also to define what kind of campaign she’s going to run — what her campaign’s theory of this election, and a victory and it would be.
I’m joined here by my revered editor, Aaron Retica. Aaron, welcome back to the show.
AARON RETICA: Thanks. Let’s cast our minds back to the Paleolithic era — by which I mean, you know, July — and stop for a second and talk about the Republican Convention and where things seemed while that was happening. And then we’re going to, of course, turn to the events this weekend, particularly Kamala’s speech tonight.
How would you contrast — first, before we get into the nitty-gritty of what she said — the overall feeling of the Republican convention when it looked to the Republicans like they were going to win, and this week in Chicago?
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