Her speechwriters did a decent job, but the material was a bit thin.
Kamala Harris’s convention address helped to introduce potentially the first female president to America, as the candidate’s big primetime moment must do.
It channelled the greats of the past — notably Barack Obama, with her “promise to be a president for all Americans” but also Ronald Reagan, with her line that “we are the heirs of the greatest democracy in the history of the world” and had the responsibility to nurture it for future generations.
She also spent a lot of time attacking her rival, Donald Trump — “he fights for himself and his billionaire friends, and he will give them another round of tax breaks” — as she sought to scare