Los Gatos council member returns from DNC with ‘hope in democratic politics’

Los Gatos town council member Rob Moore, a delegate for the Democratic party representing the state of California, said this year’s Democratic National Convention was unlike anything he had seen in politics before.

Moore, who attended the convention for the first time this year, said after returning from Chicago that he was impressed by Vice President Kamala Harris and her newly announced running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

“The energy, the enthusiasm and the readiness to get to work was so inspiring,” he said.

At the convention, Moore said, he saw how Harris’s nomination to the ticket, after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race last month, “reinvigorated a lot of people’s hope in democratic politics.”

Moore said California delegates at the DNC are typically seated further away from the main stage, but this year they were much closer to the front–likely because of Harris’s roots in the state.

And he said most major Democratic politicians at the convention made an effort to speak to the California delegation at their breakfast each morning.

“I don’t know how much it does or doesn’t say about shifting power in American politics, but I did think it was really cool what [a] large role California played at the convention,” he said.

Moore said he was particularly touched by Walz and the speech he gave in which he spoke about his love for his family, calling it “authentic and genuine.” He said the support Walz received from his family at the convention pointed up the lack of same on the Republican side from the families of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.

“He, I think, is really allowing a lot of young men to see a woman like Kamala Harris as the strong leader that she is,” he said.