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Doug Emhoff gave a lovely speech. The video package introducing him from his son was also great. Michelle is up now! Michelle's speech is already going very hard.

Georgia Young Democrats leader Parker Short, last seen dancing to "Not Like Us" at the Atlanta rally and winning the heart of @Khan, confronts right wing personality Charlie Kirk after he tries to infiltrate the DNC. (Allegedly Matt Walsh is also there in a very poor disguise.)

Damn, Ana Navarro lost weight.

Abby and Sabrina - I'll pass.

YouTube version of last night's video tribute:

An essential piece: Beware the Pundit-Brained Version of the Democratic Convention

Lauren-Marie Taylor (Stacey Forbes, LOV) has an enigmatic role and monologue in this year's arthouse horror hit In a Violent Nature. Likely in honor of her role in Friday the 13th Part II, as the film takes major inspiration from that franchise. I didn't recognize her at first.

Chris Hayes is not that bad IMO, but he still has a vestigial burnout left streak from his formative days that occasionally surfaces and is easily influenced by nonsense and turns obnoxious. Fortunately, Lawrence O'Donnell is there.

Every minute of this lengthy video is worth it. I hope they put a YT link up in the AM.

A moment of clarity for Semafor and its storied staff, who print the story anyway:

Eh, again I don't think it has. This is another very online, very Beltway media we-are-what-matters thing that doesn't translate to the real world. Most of the public either didn't care about the hour, were out west and/or will only watch the speeches and YT clips tomorrow anyway - that's just how our media landscape works now. As even some of their own pundits discussing it noted all this, they also said Beltway people often thinks strictly in terms of NYC and DC hours and network programming from 20-30 years ago ruling the day, and are out of touch with how the public consumes politics. Overall, minus Raskin's Rodney Dangerfield act it was a solid Day 1. (And I still suspect a future POTUS performance from Warnock.)

He's just mad he's not in the big chair anymore. Happens to a lot of those guys. CNN (or any number of networks) always try to set the agenda in the early minutes or hours and then get blown back by public opinion and grudgingly walk it back. The speeches all went fine (well, except Raskin) and Biden did great. I think a lot of the Beltway heads were quietly hoping Joe was going to be sundowning on camera or something after 8 PM. Ashley Biden also gave quite a speech. She's someone I could see running someday. Biden's full speech (timestamped): I love how you can see some of the family and Kamala all talking to and coaching little Beau at the end of the video of the speech above - CBS has a closer angle than the main DNC feed. I forgot he was just a little baby in Joe's arms for the inauguration night four years ago.

The protests really haven't made any impact so far - even less than I expected, tbh. All we got was Tapper and Dana Bash whining that Joe was on too late. Biden's speech seems very well received by the public, it's the Beltway that was scraping around for anything to work with and so far haven't found much (and have admitted it was a great speech, those who weren't begging him to 'reach out to the center'). Meanwhile: And of course, the intolerable Glenn Kessler:

Great news. Warnock came pretty close to Obama '04 for me tonight. I knew then he would be POTUS. I won't be surprised if Warnock runs and wins.

Speaking of Pelosi: I have a lot of complicated feelings about what happened (as opposed to what's happened since July) and I'm still pretty disgusted with how a lot of it went down, but I have never doubted what Pelosi was about: Winning.

Very emotional closer from Joe (and a great VP joke).

Walz has been choked up through much of Biden's speech.

Biden also classily acknowledges the protestors outside (who really haven't had much of an Impact today at all) 'have a point.'

Huge ovation for Joe. (Gwen Walz among others cried, as Gwen Walz has cried at virtually every speaker lol.) He's doing just fine. From earlier: Warnock's amazing barnburner speech from earlier. I never doubted him a few years ago.