Dnc 2016
"A genuinely stupid amount of balloons."
"Should have brought lighter fluid," someone mused.
Poor Trump didn't have half this many balloons on his night. Heard he couldn't afford that many. Sad!
"A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons."
A look at day 3 of the DNC, from flag burning to peaceful protests.
On the penultimate night of the Democratic National Convention, party leaders did their best to rally support for Hillary Clinton. But there was still dissension in the ranks.
"Does anyone really believe that a guy who’s spent his 70 years on this Earth showing no regard for working people is suddenly going to be your champion?"
"Don't vote Hillary, she's killing black people," some protesters chanted.
A large part of covering the DNC, I have learned, involves interviewing people with whom you wildly disagree while somehow keeping blood from pouring out of your eyes.
Clinton's nomination came after what began as a procedural, by-the-books roll call that turned into a near revolt by Bernie Sanders supporters.
The Bernie or Bust train has lost its conductor, but the train, it seems, is chugging forward on its own. Too much swag has been printed to go back now.