Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention
On the second night of the convention, which featured former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, as the headliners, fact-based claims took a back seat to hopeful pronouncements about the future. We still found some political spin:
Obama claimed that former President Donald Trump “wants the middle class to pay the price for another huge tax cut that would mostly help him and his rich friends.” But most of the tax cuts Trump has proposed would benefit taxpayers at all income levels.
Barack Obama credited President Joe Biden with...