Banners outside the Time Warner Arena, where most of the Democratic National Convention events take place.
(Jody Avirgan / WNYC)
The Democratic National Convention gets underway today in Charlotte, North Carolina. First Lady Michelle Obama will be among the headliners tonight, along with keynote speaker Julian Castro, mayor of San Antonio.
Political correspondent Todd Zwillich has your takeaways from the Charlotte convention floor on what to watch for at the start of the Democratic National Convention.
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Last night we saw the president of NARAL, the head of Planned Parenthood (I think), and Kathleen Sibelius (is she wearing a mask she is so internally conflicted?). What used to be illegal is now a plank in the Democratic platform. The pro-abortion party.
And they removed the word 'God' from their platform altogether.
I'm watching tonight and plan on getting drunk, so there might be some Pink Elephants in the room by the end of the night.
The real elephant at the Democratic Convention is Wall Street and all the Banks shenanigans: that no one has gone to jail and that no reforms have been made, well, that is disappointing.
I would be surprised if anyone deals with the subject tonight and rightly so. The situation of what Wall Street and the banks got away with could only hurt the Democrats... Fortunately, The Republicans are just as scared to bring up the topic.
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