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On night three, the Democratic National Convention targeted young voters and women, focusing on the issues they care most about.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke from San Francisco and Hillary Clinton from her home in Chappaqua before California Senator Kamala Harris accepted her historic nomination as vice presidential candidate in a quiet hall, devoid of the spectacle and energy that would usually attend such a big moment.
She stood at a decorated podium, giving her the look of speaking from a more traditional political convention but without the actual crowd of delegates and their cheers, which undoubtedly took some of the energy away from her historic moment as the first woman of color on a major party ticket.
Harris made the case for Joe Biden, saying of the Trump administration, "the constant chaos leaves us adrift. The incompetence makes us feel afraid. The callousness makes us feel alone. It’s a lot. And here’s the thing: we can do better, and deserve such so much more."
Harris also told her story, giving a loving tribute to her late mother, "who gave birth to me at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, California. On that day she probably never could have imagined that I would be standing before you now and speaking this words: I accept your nomination for Vice President of the United States of America."
But Harris had a tough act to follow in an emotional Barack Obama.
"I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously," said the former president. "(Trump has) no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves."
Not since Teddy Roosevelt came out of retirement to run against William Howard Taft has a former President lit into his successor the way Obama did.
On Thursday night, the final night of the convention, Joe Biden will give his acceptance speech before he and Kamala Harris hit the virtual road to make their case to the nation.