It is an issue for the next election. Announcer catherine gale, sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans q a. Announcer the Washington Post hosted a discussion on this weeks Democratic National convention in the president ial race. Reporters and columnists discussed joe bidens speech and what to expect that next weeks Republican Convention. Good morning. Welcome to first look. The onestop shop for news and analysis all about the Democratic Convention. Join me each morning for uptodate information from Washington Post reporters, followed by commentary from prominent Washington Post columnists and contributors. We are starting this morning after the Democratic Convention with the man we started with. Joining the conversation is Washington Post fact checker. Good morning, welcome. Good morning. With you. Start give me your initial reaction to the speech last night by former Vice President and now democratic president ial nominee, joe biden. I thought it was a very strong speech, proba
A deep division among the Democratic Party in the United States right now and thats one of the things that voters will have to decide on whether or not they want sort of some of the canvas to represent the further left wing of the Democratic Party the progressives or some of the more moderate centrist typically what you would see of the Democratic Party in recent years so this is the fissure that was exposed but it was very heated very passionate sort of on the issue of race on the issue of Border Security on the issue of the war in afghanistan there were some real policy differences very passionate debate and we expect that combative nature to continue in the 2nd round this evening yeah as you say kimberly we have round 2 which starts in a few hours time joe biden of course were trying to fend off camera as cory booker so just talk us through what we can expect in some nights debate. Yeah well 1st of all the way theyre standing on the stage may be a little bit difficult for joe biden