A risky television production experiment that could have gone badly wrong instead turned into a pageant of national unity, and injected unusual bounce into nominee Joe Biden's basement campaign. If nothing else sticks from the second night of the Democratic virtual convention, everyone will remember Rhode Island's calamari chef, who immediately went viral on social media. Convention organizers had been concerned that the roll call vote was a technical disaster in the making. "No one has ever watched or cared about the roll call vote except the people in the convention hall. Tonight, it told a story of unity and it just worked in this moment," a senior Democratic official told CNN's Jeff Zeleny.

Source: CNN August 19, 2020 05:15 UTC