The Democratic Convention begins tomorrow in Chicago, and there should be absolutely no suspense over how the media will treat Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and the party’s other stars. The MRC’s archives, going back to 1988, show that Democrats always — always — get a huge tailwind of good press coming out of their party conventions.
Even the most leftwing candidates — like the Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1988 — are classified as “mainstream,” while liberals like Clinton and Gore in 1992 are dubbed “a conservative pair.” The speeches are universally applauded as amazing feats of inspiration. After his 2016 convention speech, Barack Obama was celebrated as “our national poet,” while journalists fluttered over John Edwards “charisma” in 2004.
“Having watched Joe Biden since the ’70s when he first ran for Senate, I’ve never seen him deliver a better speech,”…
