"I really hope the DNC's strategy this week of wooing undecided voters with the star power of John Kasich and Meg Whitman pays off," the host of HBO's 'Last Week Tonight' said.
John Oliver kicked off Sunday's episode of Last Week Tonight by addressing last week's Democratic National Convention — or, what many in the media took to calling "an unconventional convention" due to its virtual nature and lack of attendees amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"That's one of those things that sounds like it has gravity but actually means next to nothing, like 'it is what it is' or 'Quibi exclusive,'" Oliver quipped.
He then noted that the DNC "spent the week steering hard toward middle of the road."
While it included appearances by the likes of Democrats including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Stacey Abrams, "a lot of time was given to Republicans," including Meg Whitman, Colin Powell and John Kasich.
"It's hard to convince progressive voters you're a forward-looking party when your convention feels like a Zoom cast reunion except the show is the 2008 RNC," Oliver said. (He also went off on Danbury, Connecticut, again this week.)
He also noted that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's acceptance speech "played it safe, showcasing his warmth and his empathy," Oliver said. "But, while he name-checked broad goals like expanding child care or ending racism, the speech was light on detail."
Instead, Biden said things like: "Character is on the ballot. Compassion is on the ballot. Decency. Science. Democracy. They're all on the ballot."
Said Oliver: "Normally, I'd point out that compassion and decency are not concrete policy agendas, but considering open authoritarianism is also on the ballot, sure what the fuck? Adequate vs. evil, let's go," he added, showing photos of Biden and Trump.
Oliver went on about the DNC's strategy.
"I'm honestly not saying it's a mistake for the DNC to spend four days pointing out that Joe Biden's not Donald Trump. It's a very attractive quality," he said. "But, spending so much of their convention underscoring Trump's unfitness for office may have been redundant given that Trump spent the entire week basically making that case for them, by continuing to sow distrust of voting by mail, calling for a boycott of an American company that employs over 60,000 workers, [Goodyear], and refusing to disavow the QAnon conspiracy theory."
He also pointed to the release this week of the Senate's report that Trump's 2016 campaign had repeated contact with Russian operatives, among other findings.
"As much as the DNC's platform of 'Biden is not Trump' should be an overwhelmingly successful strategy, the truth is Trump still has a very real chance at winning re-election," Oliver said.
Oliver noted that many voters are still undecided.
He added: "I really hope the DNC's strategy this week of wooing undecided voters with the star power of John Kasich and Meg Whitman pays off. Because if the Democrats just spent a week trying to appear to conservatives who ultimately end up voting Republican, then this will actually turn out to be a depressingly conventional convention."
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