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2020 Presidential Conventions

Vox follows the latest developments and news around the four-day Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention happening in August.

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The Democratic National Convention’s speaker lineup and how to watch

Joe Biden, Barack and Michelle Obama, and Bernie Sanders are among the speakers for this week’s virtual convention.

By Ella Nilsen, Nicole Narea, and 1 more

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This is the future Joe Biden wants

But can he break from his past to get there?

By Dylan Matthews

The pandemic made live events surprising again

By Emily St. James

Trump’s call with Georgia’s secretary of state is a subversion of democracy

By Cameron Peters

Ted Cruz is spearheading a new GOP effort to overturn the 2020 election

By Cameron Peters

Why Trump’s attempt to steal the election was too much even for Republican judges

By Ian Millhiser

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What a second Trump term could mean for LGBTQ people

By Katelyn Burns

The pandemic is forcing Democrats to ask: Does knocking on doors work?

By Dylan Matthews

The RNC weaponized exhaustion

By Zack Beauchamp

CNN fact-checked Trump’s RNC speech on air. It took 3 minutes.

By German Lopez

Trump’s spent years touting the stock market. At the RNC, he just … didn’t.

By Emily Stewart

Trump, Biden, and the war over American masculinity

By Anna North

The absurdity of Trump’s RNC speech, in one photo

By German Lopez

Trump’s RNC speech was a mess. But the optics of it were powerful.

By Aaron Rupar

3 winners and 4 losers from the final night of the Republican National Convention

By Matthew Yglesias, Ian Millhiser, and 4 more

The 3 charts that disprove Donald Trump’s convention speech

By Ezra Klein

Trump was supposed to change the GOP. But the GOP changed him.

By Jane Coaston

Trump used the RNC to gaslight America on Covid-19

By German Lopez

Thursday’s Republican National Convention speakers, explained for people who don’t watch Fox News

By Nicole Narea

Trump’s argument about “Joe Biden’s America” is undercut by the fact that he’s in charge

By Li Zhou

Why so few Republican senators in competitive races spoke at the RNC

By Ella Nilsen

Iowa’s Joni Ernst ties her reelection prospects to Trump with speech at the RNC

By Li Zhou

The most shocking line in Vice President Pence’s 2020 RNC speech 

By Ian Millhiser

2 winners and 3 losers from the third night of the Republican National Convention

By Andrew Prokop, Zack Beauchamp, and 2 more

The RNC and the subtle rot of Trump’s reality TV presidency

By Zack Beauchamp

Wednesday’s Republican National Convention speakers, explained for people who don’t watch Fox News

By Jane Coaston

US troops aim to stay out of partisan events. Both parties used them as convention props.

By Alex Ward

Trump failed on the opioid crisis — and Democrats are letting him get away with it

By German Lopez

The Hatch Act, the law Trump flouted at the RNC, explained

By Ian Millhiser

The contradictory Republican case to Black voters — and why it matters

By Dylan Scott

Eric Trump’s RNC speech had something rare: Policy substance

By Katelyn Burns

The bland, boring visuals of the Republican National Convention

By Emily St. James

Political conventions are where politics and fandom converge. What happens in a pandemic?

By Aja Romano

2 winners and 3 losers from night 2 of the RNC

By Jane Coaston, Ian Millhiser, and 3 more

The RNC keeps referring to Covid-19 in the past tense. 1,147 American deaths were reported Tuesday.

By Aaron Rupar

Trump’s pitch to evangelical voters, explained in one RNC speech

By Anna North

Melania Trump used her RNC speech to defend her husband’s record

By Alex Ward

Mike Pompeo’s RNC speech will place him as the most partisan secretary of state in decades

By Alex Ward

The RNC yanked a speaker who promoted an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory

By Ian Millhiser

Nick Sandmann, RNC speaker and Covington Catholic video star, explained

By Zack Beauchamp

Republican National Convention speakers, explained for people who don’t watch Fox News

By Nicole Narea

A loyalty test for the GOP, a reality test for the country

By Ezra Klein