Wild Card. Who do you think is the most surprising person we will hear from over the coming four days?

Ranging from Liz Cheney to Beyoncé.

What are we in store for?

The Rock, you know?

I was going to say this thing.

He's like the most popular...

Everybody likes Joine Johnson, and so Democrats would probably love for him to show up at their convention you know so and that are we gonna get think pieces that are like this is the Hulk Hogan versus the rock election.

Oh my God.

Oh my God. Oh,

Oh, my God.

Hello and and welcome to the 530 politics podcast I'm Gailin Jruk and welcome to the

Democratic National Convention. Today we're going to do a preview of the Convention and for the rest of the week,

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, we'll have late night reaction podcasts, so get ready for a lot of late

nights. To kick things off, we're going to talk about the goal of this convention.

I mean, the party has already formally nominated Harris in a virtual roll call.

So what does the party trying to accomplish over these four days?

And based on the details that we have, how are they going about it?

We'll also take a look at the timeline.

Harris's presumptive nomination came just a hundred five days before election day. In the modern primary

era only one nominee Gerald Ford in 1976 secured the nomination with less time on the clock.

So how will the shortened timeline and the lack of a competitive primary in general

shape this election?

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