ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The Democratic National Convention officially wrapped up Thursday night and in a week where there was plenty of entertainment, speeches and celebrity appearances, the headline of the week was of course Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepting the Democratic nominations for vice president and president, respectively.
Walz's speech, which of course featured the lasting image of his son, Gus, crying and cheering, talked of "bringing the joy" to the 2024 election, while Harris' speech urged Americans to reject political divisions and warned of consequences posed by a second Donald Trump win.
John Hancock and Michael Kelley, host of 'Hancock and Kelley' on KMOX, joined Total Information A.M. to give their reviews of how the week looked and thought like the Republican National Convention, things went smoothly.
"What we saw this entire week was a masterful execution of a political campaign and it's convention," said Kelley, a longtime Democratic strategist. "The Democrats executed this to a T. (Thursday night), we saw Kamala Harris come out, introduce her own personal life story and it's an American story if you listen to it. It's compelling and there's a lot families that are just like it."
Kelley thought parts of her speech was a speech that people would've heard at the RNC in the 1980s.
"She went into the prosecution of Donald Trump, then went forward with how she would seize the world and the important things that relate to healthcare access, gun, etc. all the way to NATO. She finished making this a patriotic speech much like what like you would've expected at a Republican convention in the 1980s."
From the other side of the political spectrum, Hancock, a Republican strategist and former chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, felt that Harris, Walz and the Democrats certainly do have momentum on their side after the week.
"They have seized the opportunity presented to them when Nancy Pelosi got Joe Biden to step down, it's a fundamentally different campaign now," said Hancock. "They certainly have the momentum, you are going to see a spike for Harris in the polls and Harris is going to be ahead."
"If you have to look at it sitting here today, she probably wins. Trump got some work to do and there's going to need to be some retooling down in the messaging in the Trump campaign. Otherwise this is not going to go well."