re: Apparently Biden delivered his speech live to 22 million audience

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I believe 22 million watched. 21 million just to see the train wreck.

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Biden's speech Thursday night, broadcast from Delaware and lasting 24 minutes, was delivered live and earned praise from most political pundits.

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I agree. If the Obamas didn’t get 5 million, there’s no way Biden got anywhere near 22 million.

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There were no raucous celebrations on the floor of a jam-packed basketball arena, no minute-long pauses for applause from an adoring audience.

Instead, there were roughly three-dozen reporters, a skeleton camera crew, a handful of Secret Service agents and a smattering of campaign staff sitting and waiting in silence in a dark room inside a Delaware convention center, the audible hum of an air conditioner the only noise interspersed between the unmistakeable clicks of fingers on keyboards.

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It was only after receiving two negative tests for COVID-19 and spending most days cooped up in a hotel room that I, along with 30 or so other print, television, radio reporters and still photographers, many of whom have covered Biden since he launched his campaign back in April of last year, were allowed into the Chase Center to view Biden's speech.

After a security sweep, temperature check and 45-minute wait in a large auditorium watching the convention, we were led into a cavernous room, a massive camera set up pointed directly at a wooden podium where Biden gave the speech he's been wanting to give for over 40 years.

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