Democrats pass the torch while playing the oldies

    Former President Bill Clinton delivered a full-throated endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris at the 2024 Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, in a speech that poked fun at both himself and former President Donald Trump.

    Officially, the theme of the Democratic National Convention is about turning the page.

    The torch is being passed in Chicago, and Democrats are completing the generational change in leadership they began when their nearly all-octogenarian House leadership team departed after the midterm elections, led by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

    Out with the old, in with the new.

    Yet this message is complicated by the fact that the speakers lineup has been dominated by the Obamas, the Clintons, the Bidens, and Pelosi, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who was first elected to Congress the year Ronald Reagan won the presidency, joining them for good measure.

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