Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, becomes the first man to be the spouse of a president or vice president. Here's a bit about him, from Manuel Roig-Franzia:

[Emhoff] also represents a potentially gender-role-reversing and groundbreaking history maker. He’s the high-powered professional who has sidelined his career to support his wife’s sky-high aspirations — even as his work life is creating a prickly conundrum over possible conflicts of interest if Harris takes office. He would not only be the first male spouse of a vice president, making him — wait for it — the first second husband, but he has also become the Great Jewish Hope. A winning Democratic ticket would make him the first Jew in the quartet of presidents, vice presidents and their spouses. He’s been called a mensch so many times that it may as well be on his business cards.

Here's a profile from our colleagues Jada Yuan and Annie Linskey of Jill Biden, including this:

And what kind of first lady would she be? By all indications, a hands-on one. “I think she has a combination of Michelle Obama, Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, noting that all three were passionate about education but the latter two operated in the foreground, while Obama seemed more comfortable asserting her power behind the scenes. It’s likely Jill Biden would be a far more public and active first lady than Melania Trump.

From our colleague Matt Viser's profile this summer of Biden's sister, Valerie Biden Owens:

When he had a debilitating stutter, she helped him overcome it. When he ran for high school class president, she directed the effort. And she has run Biden’s campaigns ever since — for county councilman, U.S. senator and his first two bids for president.

Biden was first elected to the Senate in Delaware exactly 48 years ago on Saturday.

Here are some ways to make sure your vote via mail or in person is counted and goes as smoothly as possible: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/17/how-to-make-sure-your-vote-is-counted/

Just worth reiterating what strong language this is - democracy is threatened! -- coming from a former president about a sitting president. This is Obama's version of "break glass in case of emergency" language.

Trump last year said four Democratic congreswomen should" "go back" to where they came from (they are citizens) and refers to the press as the enemy of the poeple.

Plenty of ink has been spilled over the "complicated" nature of Biden and Obama's relationship. Throughout the primary, Biden touted his connection to Obama. Obama didn't fully back Biden until he was on his way to winning the primary but since has campaigned for him and also emphasized their relationship.

President Trump likes to claim credit for the strong economy and setting it on its course pre-pandemic, though the trend of economic growth started in the Obama years .

Obama has said he's known Harris for a long time. In a 2013 fundraiser, he referred to her as "the best looking attorney general" in the country.

This was the money line from the speech, and it echoed one Michelle Obama used in her Monday DNC speech, when she said Trump "cannot meet the moment."

Obama met with Trump in the Oval Office immediately following Trump's election, after years of Trump deriding Obama. Obama then said positive things about he meeting, and tried to set a tone in keeping with the traditions of transfer of power.

Obama here appeared to choke up.

The Fix's Aaron Blake noted that Jill Biden focused primarily on her husband in her remarks, in contrast with many speakers on Tuesday who were primarily critical of Trump. But even her speech painted a contrast, in its setting and in phrases like this.

Biden is indeed known for giving out his digits to people he meets at political events. He seemed on the verge of doing it on national television to families of coronavirus victims in March of this year.

Joe Biden lost a cancer initiative in is post-vice presidency. Earlier Tuesday night, he hosted a video panel featuring several cancer patients and survivors.

Joe Biden was serving as vice president at the time his son died when he was 46.

On Monday night, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York compared the nation to a body that was not strong enough to fight off the virus. Biden's analogy here is much less... weird.

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus was at least 168,000 as of Tuesday evening, according to a Washington Post count.

Almost exactly three years ago protesters wielded torches and shouted racist slogans in defense of Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Va. In the wake of the protests, which turned violent and left one counter-protester dead, President Trump said there were "fine people" in the crowd.

President Trump is skeptical of international organizations like NATO and the UN.

She said this in her 2012 DNC speech as her husband was seeking a second term. When Trump was elected, many opponents of his candidacy hoped he would become more conventionally presidential while holding office. In 2018 he said at a rally that doing so wouldn't bring out the crowds.

This is in line with the guidance election experts gave the Fix's Amber Phillips on making sure mail-in votes are counted.

This is a plea to Democrats on the far left who wanted a more liberal candidate, or those entertaining voting for a third party, which could affect the outcome in a narrow race.

Literally, his tweets have caused stock markets to moved with investors anticipating their policy implications

Trump has frequently criticized Black Lives Matter activists and has suggested that murals honoring the movement are symbols of hate. Several of those murals were showcased in a video played earlier at the DNC, which embraced BLM:

The full-fledged support showcased the effort by Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democrats to tap into the energy that has brought tens of thousands of people into the streets to protest systemic racism. Biden’s team has said they hope to boost turnout among Black voters and young people, two groups that have fueled the demonstrations.

This would become the most memorable phrase of the night, in contrast to her "we go high" phrase in 2016. Obama’s “It is what it is line” recalled a quote Trump gave earlier this month in an interview with Axios. When confronted about the growing number of deaths due to coronavirus, the president replied “It is what it is.”

Here, Obama is talking to the left flank of Demcorats who were not backers of Biden and who have remained somewhat resistant to his positions, even though many still say they will vote for him because getting rid of Trump is so urgent.

Biden stuttered as a child, something that was revisited during the primary campaign when a journalist with a stutter himself noticed some familiar tics.

Beau Biden died in 2015.

Lewis, the late congressman and civil rights activist from Georgia, died last month.

Several studies have stated that bullying in schools have increased during the Trump era in part due to the normalization of the rhetoric he uses against his enemies.

Michelle Obama has consistently claimed thorugout her public life: She was a somewhat reluctant political spouse, especially relative to her husband's quick rise to national office. Her disdain for it was frequently mentioned earlier this year when wishful thinkers were proposing she'd be a good running mate for Biden.

This phrase Obama used in 2016 has been much debated since then, with many Democrats calling for a tougher, more reciprocal posture toward Trump and his party.

Obama here also struck a different note than she typically did as first lady, when she was frank but rarely critical of the country.

Obama here transitions to rebuking not just Trump, but adherents of his values or those taking cues from him.

Melania Trump, Rosalynn Carter, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton are the other living first ladies.

Trump has downplayed the coronavirus over the last seven months on dozens of occasions, saying things like it should be viewed like the flu, and that it will just go away. Here's a rundown of the examples.

The number is at least 167,000, according to a Washington Post count.

Millions of Barack Obama voters, including a large share of Black voters, didn't turn out in 2016 to vote for Hillary Clinton, possibly costing her the election.

Trump disagreed - he campaigned on the idea that America was being disrespected on the global stage in the Obama era. Prior to the pandemic, Pew found that:

Across 24 countries that have been surveyed consistently since 2015 and 2016, a median of 53% of adults have a favorable view of the U.S., slightly below the 64% who had a positive view at the end of the Obama administration.

In her bestselling memoir, the first Black first lady describes growing up in a working class family in Chicago, who sacrificed to give her opportunities, and grandparents who migrated from the deep South.

She said this in her 2012 DNC speech as her husband was speaking a second term. When Trump was elected, many opponents of his candidacy hoped he would become more conventionally presidential while holding office. In 2018 he said at a rally that doing so wouldn't bring out the crowds.

Melania Trump, Rosalynn Carter, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton are the other living first ladies.

This phrase Obama used in 2016 has been much debated since then, with many Democrats calling for a tougher, more reciprocal posture toward Trump and his party.

Trump disagreed - he campaigned on the idea that America was being disrespected on the global stage in the Obama era. Prior to the pandemic, Pew found that:

Across 24 countries that have been surveyed consistently since 2015 and 2016, a median of 53% of adults have a favorable view of the U.S., slightly below the 64% who had a positive view at the end of the Obama administration.

Obama here transitions to rebuking not just Trump, but adherents of his values or those taking cues from him.

Almost exactly three years ago protesters weilded torches and shouted racist slogans in defense of Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Va. In the wake of the protests, which turned violent and left one counterprotester dead, President Trump said there were "fine people" in the crowd.

Obama here also struck a different note than she typically did as first lady, when she was frank but rarely critical of the country.

Lewis, the late congressman and civil rights activist from Georgia, died last month.

President Trump is skeptical of international organizations like NATO and the UN.

Trump has downplayed the coronavirus over the last seven months on dozens of occasions, saying things like it should be viewed like the flu, and that it will just go away. Here's a rundown of the examples.

The number is at least 167,000, according to a Washington Post count.

Millions of Barack Obama voters, including a large share of Black voters, didn't turn out in 2016 to vote for Hillary Clinton, possibly costing her the election.

In her bestselling memoir, the first Black first lady describes growing up in a working class family in Chicago, who sacrificed to give her opportunities, and grandparents who migrated from the deep South.

Michelle Obama was a somewhat reluctant political spouse, especially relative to her husband's quick rise to national office. Her disdain for it was frequently mentioned earlier this year when wishful thinkers were proposing she'd be a good running mate for Biden.

Sanders preceeded Obama's endorsement by just one day, but whether his supporters will follow suit and back Biden is one of the major outstanding questions in a primary that's now otherwise settled. Obama is making a pretty direct appeal to those supporters in what follows here.

The field was indeed huge. Biden is the last man standing out of more than two dozen who sought the nomination.

Who could you expect to see on Biden's team? A lot of familiar faces from the last administration, according to the Daily 202: " Some of them – former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Andy Slavitt and former Ebola czar Ron Klain, to name two – are outspoken voices as the Trump administration responds to the rapid spread of covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, around the country."

President Trump earlier in the coronavirus outbreak deflected criticism of his administration by pointing to death totals from H1N1during the Obama administration. There were some logical flaws with that, and now that the Coronavirus has claimed more than twice as many American lives, he doesn't use that comparison.

Biden and Obama, meanwhile, now are talking about their handling of prior outbreaks as a marker of competency, and one of many points of Biden that he's been there and done that when it comes to governing.

Notice President Trump's name isn't uttered in this address. This is one subtle dig at the way the president is mishandling the coronavirus crisis. Biden has been much more overt in his own criticism.

Biden lost his wife and daughter in a car accident in 1972 and his son Beau to cancer in 2015.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2oVUxTV4WA

someone made the point the other day about how much Cohn looks like Rob Corddry and now i can't get that out of my head.

Cohn, formerly of Goldman Sachs.

Not according to our Fact Checker, who said that like with most tax cuts. these proposed Trump ones will primarily benefit the wealthy. Here's a video that explains this and would be super cool if we could embed here:https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/fact-check-will-the-wealthy-get-a-tax-cut-under-president-trumps-plan/2017/09/28/0fb84098-a4ae-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed_video.html

this is a problematic way to approach negotiating with Congress. Trump has made some inroads with Democrats in recent months, etc.

Here are 10 reasons it will benefit Trump, from our colleagues at Wonkblog.

Here's a profile of Long, who got high marks for his performances in Irma and Harvey.

at this rate, we're going to be pretty sleepy by then.

A big ocean, for one thing.