CNN commentator Scott Jennings praised the second day of the Democratic National Convention and said Democrats would not fool around this week when nominating the vice president Kamala Harris.
On Tuesday evening, the congressional audience in Chicago was treated to speeches by numerous speakers, especially by Second Gentleman Doug Emhoffformer First Lady Michelle Obamaand former president Barack Obama.
Emhoff explained how he asked his future wife out on a first date.
“I got Kamala’s voicemail and just started babbling,” he said, telling a story that drew laughter from the crowd. “‘Heythis is Doug. I’m on my way to an early meeting. Again, this is Doug.'”
Emhoff added that the voicemail was so unpleasant: “It forces me to listen to it on every anniversary.”
Meanwhile, Michelle Obama accused Trump of “failing upward” due to “positive discrimination against generational wealth.”
And Barack Obama has made a barely veiled dig at the former president Donald Trump’s Masculinity, suggesting that Trump’s obsession with crowd size has a more personal background.
Jennings praised the Democrats after their production ended on Tuesday evening:
Well, first of all, I think the Democrats should be congratulated on this evening. It was well produced. The music, the Obamas, the whole program did them good tonight. I think the contrast that I see – and I don’t know who’s going to win – is the contrast between the politics of combat and the politics of compassion. That’s what I think the Obamas were trying to do tonight.
I should warn my Republican colleagues that tonight we heard two of the greatest political communicators in the country. We had Hulkamania. The Democrats have Obamamania. They blew the roof off tonight. These Democrats are fired up. They’re not playing games, OK?
Jennings then took a brief detour to criticize Democrats for lying about Republicans.
“They say things about Trump and the Republicans that are outright lies,” he continued. “But the convention is working for Harris, at least to date. The gap that I still see in all of these speeches – as good as they were – is that they are in the
White House right now. The Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years. And for all the talk about division and the problems in the country and the suffering of the people, the Democrats have largely controlled this country.”
He later added: “But the bottom line is that this convention is going well for them tonight. Michelle Obama is, I mean, she’s an incredible speaker and you can’t deny the impact of what happened in the room tonight.”
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