Morning Jolt: Will Democrats Do Something . . . Unconventional This Summer?

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

May 16 2024

Will Democrats Do Something . . . Unconventional This Summer?

On the menu today: The new pier in Gaza is attached and finished; former National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins says that the lab-leak theory is not a conspiracy theory; and preorders for the book continue nicely. But perhaps the most surprising development of the past 24 hours is a Democratic member of Congress floating the idea of his party simply not having a convention this year, in order to avoid 1968-style images of cops and protesters violently clashing in the streets. The convention is not going to be canceled, of course, but if this congressman is saying it, he's probably not alone in wishing his party could just skip it.

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