Thread by @atrupar

My thread covering night 3 of the DNC, featuring a speech by Tim Walz, begins here 👇 Follow along for clips and commentary

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Peter Doocy is walking around basically harassing DNC delegates

Aftab Pureval, mayor of Cincinnati, talks about how Trump talked about infrastructure week, but it took Biden-Harris to fix a bridge between Ohio and Kentucky

in fairness Project 1825 is probably pretty bad too

Jared Polis takes a literal page out of Project 2025 and vows to share it with undecided voters

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: In Florida, Project 2025 isn't just a threat. It's a reality we battle every day. DeSantis turned the state into a testing ground for the right's most egregious, dangerous policies.

the DNC put together a 🔥 video montage of Kamala owning the Trump administration during Senate hearings

Wow -- Michigan AG Dana Nessel: "By the way, I got a message for the Republicans and the justices of the US Supreme Court: You can pry this wedding band from my cold, dead, gay hand."

Jon Polin, parent of a hostage in Gaza: "There is a surplus of agony on all sides of the tragic conflict in the Middle East. In a contest of pain, there are no winners."

Olivia Troye becomes the second former Trump administration official to speak at the DNC

Olivia Troye, former Trump admin official, endorses Harris: "Being inside Trump's White House was terrifying, but what keeps me up at night is what will happen if he gets back there. The guardrails are gone. The few adults in the room the first time resigned or were fired."

Geoff Duncan, a Republican and former Lt Gov of Georgia, directly addresses Republicans and independents: "If Republicans are being intellectually honest with ourselves, our party is not civil or conservative. It's chaotic and crazy. And the only thing left to do is dump Trump"

Geoff Duncan on the GOP: "These days our party acts more like a cult, a cult worshipping a felonous thug ... let me be clear to my Republican friends at home: If you vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 you're not a Democrat, you're a patriot."

(the crowd goes wild)

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here's all of Steve Wonder playing "Higher Ground" at the DNC

Kenan Thompson on Project 2025: "You ever seen a document that could kill a small animal and democracy at the same time? Here it is."

Here's more of Kenan Thompson's bit about Project 2025. It was quite clever 👇

Hakeem Jeffries: "Donald Trump is like an old boyfriend who you broke up with but he just won't go away. He spent the last 4 years spinning the block trying to get back into a relationship with the American people. Bro -- we broke up with you for a reason."

Jeffries on Trump: "There's no reason for us to ever get back together. Been there, done that, we're not going back."

Jeffries then gets the crowd going with some creative word play during his endorsement of Harris.

Bill Clinton: "Two days ago I turned 78 -- the oldest man in my family. And the only personal vanity I want to assert is that I'm still younger than Donald Trump."

Clinton: "When she was young, she worked at McDonald's & greeted everyone w/that thousand watt smile & said, 'how can I help you?' Now she's at pinnacle of power & she's still asking, 'how can I help you?' ... she'll break my record as POTUS who has spent most time at McDonald's"

Bill Clinton on Trump: He mostly talks about himself. So the next time you hear him, don't count the lies -- count the i's ... he tries to get his lungs open by saying 'me me me me me' ... do you want to spend the next four years talking about crowd size?

Bill Clinton: I almost croaked during the first debate when Trump said 'nobody respect American anymore' like they did when he was president. And with a straight face! Look, you gotta give it -- he's a good actor -- he cited the presidents of North Korea and Russia

Bill Clinton: What are other countries supposed to make of these endless tributes to the late, great, Hannibal Lecter?

Bill Clinton: I have no idea how more of these I'll be able to come to ... here's what I want you to know. If you vote for this team and get them elected, you'll be proud of it for the rest of your life. Your children will be proud of it, your grandchildren will be proud of it.

"Thank you Joe" -- Nancy Pelosi begins her speech by putting over Biden

how I'm feeling deep into night 3 of the DNC

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Josh Shapiro: "It sure as hell isn't freedom to say 'you can go vote, but he gets to pick the winner.' That's not freedom."

Josh Shapiro is 🔥 on the mic. He even has that husky wrestler promo voice.

here's the entirety of Amanda Gorman's remarks at the DNC

this was a really good line from Clinton that I should include in my thread 👇

wow big pop for Oprah

Oprah: "There are people who want you to see our country as a nation of 'us against them.' People who want scare you. Who want to rule you. People who would have you believe that books are dangerous and assault rifles are safe."

Oprah does a nice little tribute to the late great John Lewis

Oprah hits JD Vance (without mentioning his name) for the "childless cat ladies" remark

"That is the best of America" -- Oprah pumps up the crowd with her endorsement of Kamala Harris, emphasizing that both of Harris's parents were immigrants

Oprah: There's a certain candidate who says if we just go to the polls this one time, we'll never have to do it again. Well you know what? You're looking at a registered independent who is proud to vote again and again because I'm an American and that's what Americans do.

Oprah: We are Americans. Let us choose loyalty to the Constitution over loyalty to any individual. Let us choose over optimism over cynicism. Because that's the best of America. Let us choose common sense over nonsense. We won't go back.

(note the people crying in the crowd)

cool hype video for Tim Walz, including testimonials from his former students and members of the Gay-Straight Alliance he advised

Wes Moore: "I joined the Army when I was 17. In fact, I had to ask my mom to sign the paperwork for me because I don't have bone spurs."

Wes Moore: "Loving your country does not mean lying about its history."

Buttigieg: "Here's a sentence I never thought I'd hear myself saying. I'm Pete Buttigieg, and you might recognize me from Fox News."

Buttigieg starts in on Trump, then says, "don't even get me started on his running mate. At least Mike Pence was polite. JD Vance is one of those guys who thinks if you don't live the life he has in mind for you, you don't count... America is ready for a better kind of politics"

Buttigieg: "The existence of my family is just one example of something that was literally impossible as recently as 25 years ago when an anxious teenage in Indiana wondered if he'd ever find belonging in this world ... that didn't just happen. It was brought about."

Pete Buttigieg is a brilliant communicator. A great speech both in content and delivery. Here's how he wrapped it up.

Here's the entirety of John Legend's performance with Shiela E. at the DNC. I'd like to think Prince would be proud.

Tim Walz's old football team is in the house!

Walz gets a big reception

Walz: "It's the honor of my life to accept your nomination for vice president of the United States ... thank you for bringing the joy to this fight."

Tim Walz ticks through his upbringing, including the early death of his father, and says: "Thank God for Social Security survivor benefits and thank God for the GI Bill that allowed my dad and me to go to college and millions of other Americans."

Walz: So there I was -- a 40-something high school teacher with little kids, zero political experience, and no money running in a deep red district. But you know what? Never underestimate a high school teacher.

Walz on his tenure as governor of Minnesota: "While other states were banning books from their schools, we were banishing hunger from ours."

And then he says about reproductive rights: "We're got a golden rule -- mind your own damn business."

Walz: I know guns. I'm a veteran, I'm a hunter. I was a better shot than most of the Republicans in Congress and I got the trophies to prove it. But I'm also a dad. I believe in the 2nd Amendment, but I believe our first responsibility is to keep our kids safe.

adding the excellent Tim Walz hype video to my thread 👇

Walz on Project 2025: It's an agenda that does nothing for our neighbors in need. Is it weird? Absolutely. But it's also wrong. And it's dangerous.

Walz: "I don't know about you, but I'm really to turn the page on these guys. We've got something better to offer the American people."

"Health care and housing are human rights. And the government stays the hell out of your bedroom!" -- Walz ends his DNC speech on a rousing note, and the music afterward is Neil Young's "Keep On Rocking in the Free World," which is one of the greatest rock songs ever IMO

OMG I missed Walz's son Gus crying and saying "that's my dad!" when his dad shouted him out. What a moment.

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