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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.

How to watch Kamala Harris’s historic vice presidential nominee acceptance speech

By Ella Nilsen

Tuesday’s DNC roll call was a quirky, unexpected delight

By Aja Romano

Jacquelyn Brittany’s viral elevator moment made her the star of a populist DNC fairy tale

By Aja Romano

Bill Clinton’s argument for defeating Trump: A new, fairer economy

By Ella Nilsen

Read: Jill Biden’s moving DNC speech on Covid-19 and American families

By Anna North

Jill Biden feels America’s pain

By Matthew Yglesias

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s DNC speech emphasized the need for systemic change

By Li Zhou

5 winners and 2 losers from night 2 of the Democratic convention

By Emily Stewart, Dylan Scott, and 3 more

The Democratic platform, explained

By Andrew Prokop

“We can’t let things settle down”: George Floyd and Eric Garner’s families call for racial justice at the DNC

By Fabiola Cineas

Michelle Obama’s superpower is her ability to connect

By Constance Grady

The DNC’s opening message: The system isn’t broken, it just feels like it

By Aaron Ross Coleman

Michelle Obama’s necklace makes her message clear: Vote.

By Terry Nguyen

What Michelle Obama’s DNC speech says about America

By Fabiola Cineas

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Joe Biden’s plan to fix the world

By Alex Ward

5 winners and 2 losers from the first night of the Democratic National Convention

By Ella Nilsen, Emily Stewart, and 3 more

American carnage

By Ezra Klein

Trump is the “wrong president for our country”: Read Michelle Obama’s full speech

By Nicole Narea

Bernie Sanders makes the progressive case for Joe Biden

By Cameron Peters

The 5 most important words in Michelle Obama’s DNC speech

By Ian Millhiser

John Kasich makes the Republican’s case for Joe Biden

By Matthew Yglesias

Watch: A Covid-19 victim’s daughter delivered a moving account of her father’s death — and a searing critique of Trump

By Nicole Narea

The Republican speakers at the Democratic convention, explained

By Matthew Yglesias

Convention polling bounces, explained 

By Andrew Prokop

The triumph of the Nostalgiacrats

By Matthew Yglesias

The all-virtual Democratic National Convention, explained

By Ella Nilsen

The Democratic National Convention has been postponed until August 17

By Li Zhou

Republicans will hold their 2020 convention in Charlotte

By Tara Golshan