The moment wreaked of understatement. The look on his face, the way he raised his white eyebrows as if he were apologizing, the shrug of his shoulders... It was a monumental speech with the future direction of a country of 333 million people riding on it.
As thousands of Democratic delegates from all 50 states packed into the United Center chanted Coach! Coach! Coach!, he conjured up the nail-biting finish that the US is now entering. It's the fourth quarter, he said, rocket launching the crowd into a paroxysm of excitement.
Walz never got to tell the delegates the score at the end of the game, but then he didn't have to. He had already won the contest for their hearts and minds.
If Donald Trump were watching the speech on his favoured Fox News, it might have stirred the odd feeling in him. Trump better pray he's right.
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