Friends and family of Joe Biden Convention: The Democratic Party takes a step Emotional

There were a dozen leading Democratic candidates spent most of bickering debates about the nuances of the different health care plans. You probably do not remember because it was centuries ago, in 2019 and early 2020 back to that distant time when Sanders and Warren appeared to setting the rhythm that Democrats plotted on an ideological axis: The question was how far to the left Democrats would go out and hard as they had to fight to get there. But Biden cinched the nomination in March and since then has worked, defined by a coalition of decency to build, not dogma. personal connection, not progressive zeal is the coin of the realm in Biden country. And now, with the Democratic National Convention in full swing, it is clear that the party is to sing a different tune: ideology into the background emotions took. Among prime-time speech to the assembly segments, the first two nights of the DNC were all about creating emotional moments that voters would reach the hearts, if they do not their opinions. Monday ‘, instead of articulating the policy failures that more than 170,000 deaths from COVID-19, the campaign decided to mark the story of Kristin Uzquira, whose father-supporters of President Donald Trump of the disease died. Rather than dwell on the health plan Biden, a video installation details and talk about health care activist Ady Barkan focused on heartbreak and hope, living with a terminal illness. Instead of dissecting the political differences between Biden and the end of Republican Senator John McCain, his rival in the 2008 campaign, a video with the help of the McCain family made concentrated on his decades of friendship across the aisle. A sense that matters in Washington. Subscribe to daily direct current, short newsletter. On Tuesday, Biden by Jacquelyn, a security guard in the New York Times was officially named buildings that Biden had recently befriended on his way with publishers for his interview in the elevator that does not approve it. “In the short time I spent with Joe Biden, I could tell where I was actually, which makes the fact that my means of life something to him. And I knew that even if he went to his important meeting would take my history with him, “said Jacquelyn which sank last name publicly. “Therefore, I have my friend nominate Joe Biden as the next president of the end of the night in the United States, the message was clear: Joe Biden is not about politics or policies or plans, Joe Biden is about people. Who gives care if geeks snubbed at the New York Times Biden for their approval; usually people take the elevator in the editorial meeting he loved him. If you are an alien from another planet who had never heard of the Vice President, comes with a simple message: President Trump is a danger to democracy, and Joe Biden seems like a nice guy enough. This is to Biden and his allies, it is the point. “Thanks to express DNC for the transport of what I have fought from April 25, 2019, “a tweet granddaughter Naomi Biden Biden on Tuesday night.” that’s not the age, experience, beliefs, past the ability to listen, to be convinced readiness and develop the will that a leader progressive and does King a president for the people “. Of course there were exceptions. Senator Bernie Sanders speech on Monday evening and Rep. Speech Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez favoring the appointment Tuesday evening Sanders common gauze places to backtrack. $15 minimum 12 weeks of paid leave for family reasons, universal pre-K for 3 and less than 4 years of age, the transition to 100% clean energy in fifteen years: In his speech, Sanders focused on that Biden policies would implement management Medicare eligibility 60. in his short speech, seemed to mention a lot more numbers than almost any other speaker. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez posted Sanders nomination, which means “movement, wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny and homophobia to detect and repair braces and to propose and build systems immigration and foreign policy, which is move away from violence and xenophobia reimagined of our past. “No one before their policy to deal with would be surprised to hear specific conversation or systemic injustice Sanders or Ocasio-Cortez heard. But there was an agreement that was mostly about stories or tearful sadness of being friends, their speech felt like a drum Electric Mixer for a Kumbaya circle to bring. But doubling down on emotions down is the strategy, not only primary in 2020 but has worked for his entire political career to Biden: make people feel good, make you feel seen and heard and understood, and follow the rest , people come first, they are the second policy. Most ordinary Americans, white Biden, not sitting at home calculating how much their premiums would be different health care plans to go below. Activists and Twitterati are driven by ideology-American voters react to emotions. And the speech of Dr. Jill Biden at the end of Tuesday evening provided much of it. Perhaps more than any other of the Convention so far, said Dr. Biden’s speech, the central division of the Biden campaign: who can heal the nation through love and perseverance, and that the policy is only part of this greater emotional mission. “How can you make a broken family altogether? In the same way you” to make a nation of all, the former Second Lady said. “With love and understanding and with small acts of kindness. With courage. Steadfastness in faith.” “We have shown that the heart of this nation still beats with kindness and courage,” he said. “This is the soul of America Joe Biden is now fighting.”
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