Presidential Election 2020 – State of the Presidential Race after the Political Conventions

William Hudson, host of Beyond Your News Feed, has invited back PC Professors Matt Guardino and Adam Myers, as promised at the end of the last episode, to bring us up to date on where the 2020 race for the presidency stands after completion of both political conventions.  In this episode, we discuss what happened at both conventions, what issues were emphasized, and the contrasting arguments that were made for their standard bearers’ candidacy. We then turn to the incidents of civil unrest and political violence that has dominated much of the news since the conventions and analyze their significance for the presidential race as well as their larger implications for American democracy.