Blue and Red America differences could hurt Democrats

Published August 19, 2020 4:26pm ET



Give Politico’s chief Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza some credit. “Story of an era in two convention speeches,” he tweeted after Michelle Obama’s speech capping the first night of the Democrats’ virtual convention.

“Barack 04: ‘There’s not a black America and white America … there’s the United States of America.’ Michelle 20: ‘my message won’t be heard by some people’ because ‘we live in a nation that is deeply divided,'” he wrote.

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