A day at the Democratic convention, courtesy of a GoPro strapped to a delegate's head
With all of the controversy that surrounded delegates and superdelegates during the primary race, you would think that actually being a delegate is a pretty serious job. Ryan Kounovsky, a 25-year-old from Eugene, Oregon, strapped on a GoPro camera for The Wall Street Journal and proved otherwise.
From up on Kounovsky's head, we see delegates indulging in breakfast sausages before boarding a bus to the convention center — which, with all of the screaming, sign-waving, and button-wearing, looks more like a Justin Bieber concert than a political gathering. Kounovsky is a delegate for Hillary Clinton, and was one of the few Oregon delegates who remained after Tuesday's roll call vote, when Clinton was officially declared the Democratic Party's nominee.
The Oregonian reported that supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton's rival in the primary race, tied black gags over their mouths before leaving the convention to stage a silent sit-in at the nearby media tent; in the video, we can hear Kounovsky lament that the "Oregon delegation left, that sucks." Check out the rest of the video from The Wall Street Journal, which includes Kounovsky getting "lei'd" and taking a shot over a donkey ice sculpture at a "delegates after dark" party, below. Caroline Cakebread
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