DNC Night 4: The Dems Are Riding High, But Kamala Harris Faces New Hurdles
Inside the Hive
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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On this episode, host Brian Stelter wraps up the exuberant finale of the Democratic National Convention with Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones and author and contributing editor Ta-Nehisi Coates, who has been reporting this week from Chicago. They discuss how this historic, four-day spectacle, which concluded with Kamala Harris’s stirring acceptance speech, showcased the party’s next generation of political stars, while also showing its limitations, with no Palestinian American getting a slot on stage.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Radika Jones, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. |
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| 0:40.1 | On behalf of my mother and everyone who has ever set out on their own unlikely journey, |
| 0:50.0 | on behalf of Americans like the people I grew up with, people who work hard, chase their dreams, and look out for one another, |
| 1:03.0 | on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written |
| 1:09.0 | in the greatest nation on earth. |
| 1:14.2 | I accept your nomination |
| 1:17.0 | to be President of the United States of America. The party is over, the campaign is on. |
| 1:27.0 | So what will we actually remember from the Democratic National Convention? |
| 1:35.0 | I'm Brian Selter and you're listening to Inside the Hive. |
| 1:39.0 | On Thursday night, Kamala Harris promised a new way forward for America. |
| 1:44.0 | I will be a president who unites us around our highest aspirations. |
| 1:52.0 | A president who leads and listens who is |
| 1:57.6 | realistic practical and has common sense and always fights for the American people. |
| 2:08.0 | Surrounding Harris at the United Center, the sheer amount of star power was unbelievable. |
| 2:14.8 | In Lansing, they call me governor. |
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