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Congressional Hits and Misses: Democratic Convention edition

Week of August 17, 2020

By Jinitzail Hernández
Posted August 21, 2020 at 5:16pm

Cursing, Conventions, and the U.S. Postal service — the congressional recess looks a little different this week.

Sen. Thomas R. Carper was caught with his audio on (warning: strong language) and Julia Louis-Dreyfus joked about church. Meanwhile everyone seems to have forgotten what’s truly important: Shark Week.

Watch the video for this week’s unconventional Hits and Misses.

[Virtually the same? This year’s unconventional Democratic National Convention]

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