When PBS News Weekend anchor John Yang introduced his weekday colleagues Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz on Sunday night in Chicago, where they were preparing for the start of the Democratic National Convention on Monday, both anchors gushed over the new Democratic “enthusiasm.”
Nawaz asked PBS’s White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez about the “vibe” among Democrats in Chicago.
Barron-Lopez described how the “nervous” and “grim” mood voters felt when Biden was the nominee had been replaced with “hope” and “excitement” and how black women were particularly excited (she focused on black women for Harris in an excited August 5 segment).
Yang segued into another story out of Chicago, journalist Judy Woodruff’s history of the notorious Democratic National Convention of 1968. She opened with an interview of a 1968 Democratic Convention demonstrator, Michael…
