“I accept —” “— your nomination —” “— for president —” “— of the United States.” [cheers and applause] The conventions. And I think you’re seeing that in the way they’re approaching the conventions.” “You could say that it has caused a reckoning about, do political conventions even matter at all? Can’t we just do this whole process without them?” So, how did the conventions grow to the spectacles they are today? “Historically, the conventions do mark the beginning of a really intense general election campaign cycle. We spent weeks looking back through footage of old conventions and learning how they might be different this year.

Source: New York Times August 17, 2020 13:52 UTC