Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by his wife Jill, speaks to members of the press at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, March 10,

Night 2: Meet The Bidens, and Foreign Policy

WNYC's Special Convention Coverage 2020 | Aug 19, 2020

The second night of the DNC featured a 50-state roll call, several indigenous languages, military officials and healthcare activists. Plus, the personal histories of the Biden family.

In This Discussion:
Joan Walsh, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and a CNN political contributor, and Catie Edmondson, a congressional reporter for the New York Times, talks about the second night of the Democratic convention.

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