Democrats arrive at convention energized by a transformed race

The Christian Science Monitor reported on the renewed sense of solidarity in the Democratic Party ahead of the DNC in Chicago. Reporter Linda Feldmann spoke to Prof. William Howell. 

There’s no Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders who’s come out and said, ‘No, we need to go in a different direction,’” says William Howell, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, referring to two of the Senate’s outspoken progressives and past presidential contenders. “Everyone seems to have fallen in line and behaved well.

Read the full story here: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2024/0819/election-harris-walz-democratic-national-convention