Praetorian Guard

“This was not a radical convention. … [Kamala Harris] is not taking the positions of the far-left of her party.” —ABC News’s Jon Karl

For the Record

“You would have thought watching the Democratic convention last week that the Democrats are not in office, that they’re not in power, that they’re campaigning against an incumbent Republican, when in reality [Kamala Harris has] been part of the failures of the Biden-Harris administration for four years.” —Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR)

“Biden’s absence from the ticket has unleashed a torrent of energy, enthusiasm, and unity. The party assembled at the United Center doesn’t want to go back to Trump, but it does want to go back to the Obama era, when the coalition of the ascendant and the Rising American Electorate was going to overthrow the patriarchy and white supremacy and guarantee progressive rule for generations. That’s the future Harris represents to the MSNBC talking heads swooning over her.” —Matthew Continetti

Upright

“If you want to get control of the illegal immigration problem, you have to stop the bleeding. … And that means undoing everything that Kamala Harris did practically on Day One of the administration.” —GOP VP nominee JD Vance

“The root causes of migration … is that Kamala Harris refuses to do her job.” —JD Vance when told, “She was put in charge of the root causes of migration.”

Demagogue

“What I know this election can do is finally kill that [MAGA] strain of the Republican Party.” —Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ)

Observations

“Of all the repellent Kennedy spectacles of the past 60 years, today’s spectacle of Kennedys disavowing other Kennedys for not being good Kennedys is really the kind of false aristocratic creepiness that makes me want to, you know, drive off a bridge.” —John Podhoretz

“Government of and by the people cannot work effectively if the people are too busy genuflecting to political officials to care overmuch what those officials do.” —Jeff Jacoby