Democrats set her up for success. Now Harris has to stick the landing. - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : Harris's validators have stressed that she represents the future to Trump's past, that she has a smile and a laugh that, whatever Trump may say, sent a jolt of energy through her audiences.
69% : If the energy and enthusiasm in Milwaukee was all about Trump, the sentiment in the United Center this week has been just as much about revived hope as it has been about one person.
64% : To underscore that she can now go toe-to-toe with Trump in staging big and enthusiastic rallies, Harris and Walz on Tuesday night filled the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, where Republicans staged their convention, and piped in the rally to the jam-packed United Center.
61% : In the early days of Trump the politician, Democrats prided themselves as resisting playing down to his level.
54% : "When they go low, we go high," Michelle Obama famously said at the 2016 convention, when few Democrats thought Trump would ever reach the White House.
53% : Her husband took his own potshots at Trump and vouched for Harris's capacity to serve as president.
51% : But if the Republican National Convention was about the adulation focused on Trump by adoring delegates, Chicago this week has been more the story of a political party that has undergone a massive exhale with Biden no longer the nominee - and found new energy in their younger and more vibrant standard-bearer.Democrats' hopes now rest on Harris's shoulders, and while the convention is focused on her, it also has shown a collective spirit suggesting that the party was not as moribund as it might have seemed when led by Biden.
43% : "Michelle Obama was the most direct when she described Trump as benefiting from "the affirmative action of generational wealth," and then put the United Center audience into a frenzy of applause and laughter when she said, "Who's going to tell him that the job he's currently seeking might just be one of those 'Black jobs?'" - a reference to Trump demeaning immigrants for taking "Black jobs" in his July debate with Biden.
41% : Wednesday's program included a video of the attack on the Capitol, scenes of chaos and mayhem and violence, along with clips of Trump exhorting his followers to stand strong and march on the symbol of democracy.
33% : They have extolled her for thinking of others when Trump thinks only of himself.
29% : "We know all the old tricks and tropes that are designed to distract us from what actually matters," Winfrey said in an obvious reference to Trump.
28% : Among other disparagements, Barack Obama leveled Trump with a hand gesture while mocking him for his obsession with crowd sizes.
27% : The speakers this week have repeated previous assertions that Trump is a threat to democracy.
23% : He leaned into his past profession as a teacher and football coach to attack Trump and running mate Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) over the conservative policy blueprint known as Project 2025 that has been prepared by their allies.
16% : "The issue also brought to the stage the former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia, Geoff Duncan, who denounced Trump and called on voters to embrace the Democratic nominee.
13% : Michelle Obama delivered a cutting takedown of Trump and an affirmation of Harris.
12% : Walz said Trump and Vance have spent "a lot of time pretending they know nothing about this.

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