Biden Promises 'Light' After Trump's 'Darkness': 7 Takeaways From The DNC
Joe Biden delivered the speech of his life Thursday night, seeking to show, perhaps for the first time since this campaign began, why he should be president.
Democrats have to be very happy with what they were able to accomplish this week with their convention.
Their production of the first all-virtual convention went off mostly without a hitch. At times, the last night seemed like whiplash with a serious segment on faith and forgiveness followed by snark from emcee Julia Louis-Dreyfus, for example.
But none of that will be remembered. What will be, and perhaps for a very long time, was the speech Joe Biden was able to. Biden gave a lot of thunderous speeches on the floor of the U.S. Senate when he was a senator and he ha appeared at conventions before, but no speech he has ever made was as important, and perhaps as well-delivered, as this one.
