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Erika Alexander!!!

He was already getting torn up in the polls head to head against Hillary before his convention bounce.

There is a big difference between wiping the floor with ineffectual Republicans refusing to engage in a primary vs. the general election. The Donald has not shown himself adept at handling any scrutiny or pressure in a general election thus far.

You were the one ranting about how everyone here's in an echo chamber but you.

We know. That's why you've been parroting conservative talking points for months. I don't buy it. It's possible, yes, but I don't think it's probable. Not with Trump's numbers, not with his negatives and not with how he is already wriggling like a worm on a hook every day, every week post-primary. I heard this same stuff about Romney - 'oh, he's too slick, he's a businessman, Obama is too passive, the country is so divided, if Obama wins it'll be real close.' Obama dismantled him and was done with him before 11 PM Eastern on election night. And Romney was far more viable than Donald Trump. I'm tired of this frame where we insist the ignorant bigot or the right-wing slickster can always win by a rout at any given moment, but the liberal or progressive candidate can only ever barely eke out a win because the narrative is that America is too polluted to know better. It's self-defeating, it's depressive for turnout and for our own base, and it has been consistently proven wrong for the past eight years, at least at the presidential level.

I figured he would endorse, but until I saw the text I was worried he was going rogue. He did a wonderful job and absolutely delivered for Hillary. That kind of barn-burning is always what Bernie has been good at. Hopefully this will end the obnoxious (but often overwhelmed) heckling.

Okay, he's really bringing it home. Thank God.

And now Bernie. Oh, God. I think he's going to Ted Cruz it. Fortunately, according to his prepared text, Hillary endorsement should be coming up next. There he goes: "Hillary Clinton should be the next president. It is not even close."

These punks tried to heckle Elizabeth Warren with "we trusted you"; she ignored them.

That was officially Cory Booker's Obama in '04 moment. Huge.

Cory Booker is really tearing it up. A handful of white dudes tried to get a "warhawk!" chant going on, got shut down. He's going all in with the Maya Angelou! Best speech of the night so far.

It was a tough segment but the cheers carried it, IMO. And everyone chilled out for Paul Simon.

Sarah Silverman (Sanders supporter) came out stumping for Hillary with Al Franken. The cheers are mostly overwhelming the Bernie or Bust boos - with "Hillary"/"Unity", I think. Though the Berniebros are definitely still at it. "Can I just say to the Bernie or Bust people? You're being ridiculous. They told us to stretch [the time]!"

There are not enough hardcore Bernie or Bust people to split the vote.

I don't know the media just turns their head and laughs. Well at least they did. I haven't seen anyone really challenge him head to head. Those debates were a joke and the media let him run all over them. And we know the democrats have a track record of complacency IMO. Elizabeth Warren has been bashing Trump non-stop and with far stronger words than anyone has to date. Trump has a leg up on all televised debates. He is a TV personality and knows the camera. Hillary will have a hard time I think because he is so good on TV and she is so not. Thank you for your concern. If you think Trump is seriously going to do well in a live debate one on one you're living in a vastly different world from ours.

His character lives in the zombie apocalypse.

Yeah, they're trying to shout down Elijah Cummings. They also called John Lewis a sellout a few months back. It's shitty but I do think it'll all amount to about as much as the #NeverTrump agita come tonight or tomorrow. It's just that social media (and right wing/Berniebro spam trolling on Twitter) makes things look much bigger than they actually are.

I've seen the media challenge him plenty post-primary, when (some of them) realized they had to get serious. Some of it sticks, some of it doesn't. Some relapse, some don't. All you can do about it is keep pushing. You can either talk about past behavior and track records or deal in what is actually happening. The DNC and Clinton have been running very effective ads against Trump for months.

Who gives a !@#$%^&*]?

Yeah, whatever, she sure don't look it.

They've been attacking Trump for months! And Trump is as discredited as he's going to get - there are decades of dirt. The only thing to do now is keep hammering away at every minute detail of it.

Just because I'm still so proud of people from my show:

It's a tempest in a teapot. Like the abortive NeverTrump floor revolt last week, it will be forgotten by tonight. As for the typical convention bounce, I'm not worrying about Trump's yet.

More Danai:

To their credit, despite the multiple attempts at hashtag revolution from some corners the Sanders campaign has pretty much called the DNC leak a non-issue and told their followers to focus on Trump and unifying the party. So most of that has landed with a damp squib despite a lot of hot air on Twitter. I don't think it will really hurt Clinton beyond the people who were already Bernie or Bust or independents determined to never vote Democratic.