“In a single, 21-minute speech Tuesday night, Michelle Obama delivered a powerful encapsulation of nearly every key strategic aim of this week’s Democratic National Convention,” the Washington Post reports.
Peter Baker: “While the delegates loved Mr. Obama, they really loved Mrs. Obama. From the minute she entered to Stevie Wonder to the end when she introduced her husband, she had the hall wrapped in her hand. No wonder Mr. Obama did not want to go next. No wonder former President Donald J. Trump over the years has repeatedly expressed a feverish worry that the Democrats would turn to Mrs. Obama as their next nominee in some kind of bizarre conspiratorial plot.”
“From the stage at the United Center on Tuesday, Mrs. Obama eviscerated Mr. Trump as a product of ‘the affirmative action of generational wealth’ who nonetheless enjoyed the ‘grace of failing forward’ while moaning that he was somehow a victim. She described him as a racist and misogynist who exploited fears and lies, a huckster and a hatemonger still playing ‘the same old con game’ on America.”
