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Hello and welcome to the Curator on Monaco Radio with me, Fernando Gusto Pacheco.
Over the next 60 minutes, I'll be bringing you some of the very best interviews and reports from the past week here at Monaco.
This week we look at Kamala Harris rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom and self determination.
Plus, great pop music for your heart.
All that and much more here on the Curator with me, Fernando Gusto Pacheco.
We start the show with Monaco's US Editor Christopher Lord assessing Kamala Harris rousing speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention where she courted middle class voters and took aim at Donald Trump.
We've had four solid days of American optimism and talk of freedom and Oprah's been out and the Obamas and a roll call of the great and the good from the Democratic Party.
So at the end of those four days, I have to say that anticipation had finally taken its toll.
And I think there was a slight energy ebb in the sort of hours leading up to Kamala Harris's appearance to accept the nomination.
So when she stepped out onto that stage, of course she got a roar of approval from the, from the audience.
But she began really to kind of try and remind people who she is, tell that personal story.
And as I say, we've had a week of personal stories and overcoming adversity and so on.
Nevertheless, as she began piecing through that story, there was clearly a momentum that started to come through the crowd.
You saw a person who in the past has had real problems with communicating effectively in public settings.
At the podium here, though, that was gone, how all that was gotten rid of.
She was clear, there was no wavering in her voice.
She laid out this very simple, interesting American middle class upbringing story, pitching herself to that middle class, kind of reminding people really that until four weeks ago, she was still a relative unknown.
And by the time she hit the stride in the middle, talk about, in a moment, she really had lifted the mood and that's when it all sort of came together.
I would say by the middle of that 40 minute speech, I mean, it is extraordinary.
You talk about her previously and she was less than impressive when she started.