Harris' surprise tribute, Biden's swan song and Hillary Clinton's glass ceiling vision: DNC Day 1 takeaways

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : After the affectionate opening, Biden spent long stretches of his 50-minute speech lacing into Trump, returning to a key theme of the reelection campaign he's no longer running.
41% : Democrats don't want voters -- or Trump -- to forget Democrats opted to shine the convention spotlight on the harrowing subject of the coronavirus pandemic.
35% : It was a reflection of Democratic frustration at how Trump has portrayed his tenure in office as a golden age for the country, even though hundreds of thousands of Americans died of COVID-19 during the last year of his term.
32% : Joe Biden laced into Trump and directly acknowledged the concerns of protesters against the war in Gaza, who demonstrated a few blocks from the convention hall.
32% : In that speech, O'Brien did not endorse Trump.
26% : She delivered a fiery speech hoping that Harris could do what she could not -- become the first woman president by beating Trump.
20% : Even more people died of the virus during Biden's presidency than during Trump's, voters have shown an eagerness to move on and some preventative measures championed by Democrats -- like school closures and masking -- are not popular in retrospect.
10% : Rep. Lauren Underwood of Illinois, a nurse, said of Trump: "He took the COVID crisis and turned it into a catastrophe.

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