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I wasn’t expecting to feel this emotional, especially while just watching the DNC delegate roll call. But seeing all of the state delegates announce their delegate counts and watching Hillary Clinton become the official presidential candidate for the Democratic Party made tears come to my eyes. The first woman… the first woman to ever win a major party’s presidential nomination. The roll call was also emotional because Sen. Bernie Sanders was quietly sitting with the Vermont delegation, and Sen. Sanders was the one to ask that the roll call be suspended and Hillary Clinton be declared the Democratic nominee.

History made. I’m still getting choked up. I can’t believe I’ve lived to see the first two-term black president, and now I get to vote for the first female president.

Continuing the theme of “the DNC’s scheduling is slightly off,” all of the drama happened early in the evening, before prime time even started. The highlight of Day 2 was totally the roll call and John Lewis’s speech, all of which happened before 7 pm.

But the biggest-name speaker on Day 2 was Bill Clinton, former two-term president, Hillary’s husband and the Big Dog. The Big Dog is known as one of the best public speakers in the country (if not the world) and some were disappointed by the (dare I say) low-energy vibe of Bill’s speech. Like, when Bill spoke at the DNC in 2012, his speech was easily the best of the entire convention. For this year’s convention, Bill’s duty was to humanize his wife, tell personal stories about Hillary and their family and more. I think it worked? I mean, people love to listen to Bubba. And apparently his speech was partly ad-libbed. It was folksy and funny and touching.

One of the big takeaways from his speech was Bill telling the convention that they needed to make a choice between the cartoon-version of Hillary that Republicans have been selling or the “real one,” the real Hillary. Bubba told the Dems: “Good for you, because earlier today, you nominated the real one.” #TheRealOne is already a thing!

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