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AUGUST 20, 2024
A Traffic Jam, With Speeches
Despite the mobility issues, the Prospect got around in Chicago.
BY HAROLD MEYERSON
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo        
CHICAGO – Triumphing over logistical obstacles that made getting around Chicago a nightmare yesterday, Prospect writers and editors reported on a host of the host city’s events, with Luke Goldstein working the early shift at the New York delegation’s breakfast, Emma Janssen covering the Gaza War protests, and David Dayen reporting on Bernie Sanders’s trenchant attack on the party’s permitting mega-dollar super PACs to dominate Democratic primaries (as they’re doing more these days).

I covered both the party’s Labor Caucus noon meeting and Joe Biden’s midnight valedictory. If you followed the convention proceedings, you know they ran way long last night, but you’ll have to take my word for it that the party’s efforts to transport delegates and media across town and into and out of the United Center were similarly vexed. One hundred years ago, it took the Democrats two weeks and 103 ballots to nominate their presidential candidate at the 1924 convention, and there were moments on Monday when I began to suspect that the lateness of all things Monday was a kind of centennial tribute to the molasses-like pace of the day’s proceedings and logistics.
TODAY’S AGENDA

Today should go more swiftly, one hopes. Bernie and Barack will highlight the evening session and make clear once again that the Democrats contain multitudes, which doesn’t necessarily mean they contradict themselves.
Join us LIVE from Chicago on YouTube this Friday for our Weekly Roundup! Tune in as our staff reports on what theyre seeing and hearing from the convention floor.

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The president got a late start and a rousing send-off. BY HAROLD MEYERSON
The Vermont senator says money in politics is out of control, Democratic Party should limit expenditures when choosing nominees. BY DAVID DAYEN
A dispatch from the March on the DNC BY EMMA JANSSEN
What a difference a different presidential candidate makes. BY HAROLD MEYERSON
This is not the week to oversleep. BY LUKE GOLDSTEIN
 
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