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American politics junkies who can’t get enough of a wild 2024 campaign season will have another opportunity for must-see-TV at the upcoming Democratic National Convention (DNC), scheduled for August 19-22 in Chicago.
At the Republican convention in Milwaukee last month, the former president, Donald Trump, was greeted as a deity-like figure by Maga voters after narrowly surviving an assassination attempt days earlier. Now it’s the Democrats’ turn to cheerlead their presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her new running mate Minnesota governor Tim Walz.
The casting has changed. Harris, not President Joe Biden, will play the starring role, despite the newly anointed nominee never earning a primary vote. Yet the script of the show will stay the same: a four-day infomercial packed with over-produced, ideological fervour.
