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from New York Times opinion this is the Ezra Klein show.
It is Thursday, August 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 in it would be.
I'm joined here by my revered editor, Aaron Reddica.
Aaron, welcome back to the show.
Thanks.
Let's cast our minds back to the paleolithic era, by which I mean July, and just stop for a second and talk about the republican convention and where things seemed while that was happening.
And then we're gonna, 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, Republicans ran.
A convention like they had already won, and Democrats ran a convention like they wanted to win.
Everybody I talked to there, I was not myself in Milwaukee said this.
The dominant mood at the republican convention was, it was like the victory night party, right?
That's what Tim Alberta said on the show from the Atlantic.