Biden gave an elegant speech on Thursday night and gave it wonderfully. But it landed even harder because of the Biden Basement that we’ve noticed since winning the pandemic nomination.
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He’s leading in the polls, through a lot. But Biden has not taken his position at the forefront of national consciousness, as one would expect from a leading presidential candidate. His relative invisibility was a planned selection made through his campaign, and it would seem prudent, given the poll figures.
But it was the concerned supporters and opponents who cheered, who saw the elderly candidate and strangely arrested as a hawk, fearing or hoping that he could stumble and fall into his wonderful moment alone without mediation and without a mask.
He didn’t. Away from there. Biden adopted a hard, sharp tone, and used the camera’s intimacy to his merit to speak directly to the American voter. His maximum toughness, maximum flexibility: “As long as I’m a Democratic candidate, I’ll be president of the United States. I will work hard for those who have not supported me.”
Think about the intelligence of the unit lines and how they might draw attention to the kind of sweet Republican voters who crossed the aisle in 2018 to vote for Democrats in the mid-term elections: the voter Biden and his team have to worry about may come. Home. Gop because they don’t accept as true with Democrats with the White House.
Biden also benefited, I think, from the fact that the last night of the Democratic National Convention was quite a crisis until he spoke. He felt the awkwardness of virtual festivities.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus the celebrity presenter and, for some reason, her racial situation was basically composed of a series of insulting growls, the so-called dubbings that served to undermine the gravity of the occasion.
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The incredibly exaggerated speeches of the senses. Cory Booker and Tammy and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms presented a recommendation for anyone who uses Zoom to deal with a meeting: when you’re alone in a room with a camera, you deserve to stick to the old movie: the actor says less is more.
Michael Bloomberg was encouraged and discovered overshadowed by a fly, which is the best metaphor of his year in politics.
Just before Biden took the stage, we had five endless minutes with the family, in fact magnificent basketball player Steph Curry, whose young people would possibly be adorable but whose attitude in the electoral procedure a little dead and accompanied by a terrible musical score straight from “Barney the Purple Dinosaur”.
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The total night had an inductive quality of grinding teeth that the first 3 nights largely avoided. But then Biden came here and did his homework and overcame his own conference just as he exceeded low expectations.
At the end of the day, and given his own quirks as a public speaker and personality, Biden could not have done more than last night.
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