Newsletter: Your Essential Politics guide to the final day of the Democratic National Convention

I’m Christina Bellantoni, here with your Essential Politics guide to the Democratic National Convention. It’s the final day of conventions, which means it’s off to the races until the general election 102 days from today.

Tonight’s theme is Stronger Together, but the phrase isn’t new. It’s been a common refrain all week from the podium.

Now it’s up to Hillary Clinton to seal the deal at the end of a four-day Democratic confab that’s seen rowdy protests, glimmers of party unity and fierce denunciations of Republican nominee Donald Trump. It will be her biggest opportunity yet to set the stage for the choice voters will make on Nov. 8.

Once all the balloons are cleared, she’ll start a three-day bus tour that will take her to western Pennsylvania and Ohio.

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What you missed on the third day of the Democratic National Convention. More coverage at latimes.com/trailguide. See other Democratic roundups here and catch up on the Republian convention here.

Day 3 was about passing the torch and high-profile attacks on Trump, along with giving a whole bunch of Californians time on the stage. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti gets his turn tonight.

(Even former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, made a brief cameo. Seema Mehta explains the backstory.)

Below is our quick look at what happened yesterday. Or check out the video version. We’ll have you covered for the final day, with a gavel-to-gavel livestream that will go live here at 1:30 p.m. Pacific. and robust live coverage round-the-clock on Trail Guide. Don’t miss a moment.

I’ll present the best of the rest with a series of headlines.

YOUR GUIDE TO CONVENTION NEWS

— ‘I didn’t dream that this would happen’: California women prepare to watch Clinton break through glass ceiling

— What political revolution? Inside the parties for lawmakers and special interests at the Democratic convention

— ‘Hillary’s been in the room,’ Obama says in vouching for Clinton’s White House credentials

— For Joe Biden, the ‘bittersweet’ reality of the end

— Introducing himself as vice presidential pick, Tim Kaine steps easily into attack-dog role at Democratic convention

— Civil rights figures highlight Wednesday’s Democratic National Convention

— Voices of Democratic delegates: What has President Obama left unfinished?

— Not just the headliners: Here are some of the moments we’ll remember from Wednesday’s DNC

— Homespun, blunt and direct: The Democrats’ architecture of unity

— Donald Trump invites Russia to hack into Clinton’s emails, an extraordinary step for a presidential nominee

— WikiLeaks releases 29 voicemails from DNC staffers

— Mike Pence jokes he is a ‘B-list Republican celebrity’ in first solo appearance

— No dissent allowed in Trump’s ‘Ask Me Anything’

— Hillary Clinton gives first post-nomination TV interview to ‘Fox News Sunday’

— Watch the Obama legacy in 10 minutes as presented at the Democratic convention

— Some Republicans take to Twitter to voice frustration after President Obama’s hopeful speech

— These are the videos the Democrats have been showing to scare delegates about Trump

YOUR GUIDE TO CONVENTION SPEECHES

— Transcript of Obama’s remarks or watch the full speech

— Watch Biden go after Donald Trump

— Tim Kaine’s full speech

— One billionaire takes on another: Bloomberg on Trump’s business record

— 7 California lawmakers spoke at the DNC. Here’s what they said

YOUR CONVENTION PROTEST GUIDE

— What ‘great’ America are they talking about? Reporter Matt Pearce’s journal from outside the Democratic convention

— 7 people arrested outside the DNC

JERRY BROWN: HIS FIRST CONVENTION IN DECADES

Bernie Sanders shocked the political system with his insurgent campaign this year, but he was walking a path already plowed by Jerry Brown nearly a quarter century ago. The governor ran (and lost) against Bill Clinton in the bitterly contested 1992 primary. On Wednesday, he was back on stage at a Democratic convention for the first time since then, representing California as an elder statesman vouching for Clinton’s experienced leadership. Watch the full speech.

As for his push to extend landmark climate change legislation next month in the Legislature’s final weeks? “I’m not telling you my whole plan. I’m still working on it. I’m committed, and I will do everything I can to make it happen,” he said in Philadelphia.

A new PPIC statewide poll released Wednesday found strong support not only for California’s existing climate change law, but also an effort to extend and expand the effort that’s now pending in the Legislature.

Brown’s Wednesday prime-time convention speech offered a sharp jab at Trump. “I say Trump is a fraud,” thundered the governor in his five-minute address focusing on the climate change record of Republicans as compared to Clinton.

For news about California politics and policy, keep an eye on our Essential Politics news feed.

NEWSOM SAYS CALIFORNIA GOOD, TRUMP BAD

After a minute of extolling California’s virtues, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom used most of his five minutes on the convention stage to rip into Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. Newsom said that Trump’s dystopian view of America was strangling the “sunny optimism of Ronald Reagan.” He accused Pence of supporting dangerous, discriminatory policies — akin to torture — against people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. Watch the full speech.

YOUR CONVENTION BINGO CARD

From “lock her up” chants to making America great, we have you covered.

JOIN US TONIGHT!

Join me, Sacramento bureau chief John Myers and columnist Robin Abcarian at a free convention watch party tonight in downtown Los Angeles. The free event runs from 6 to 9 p.m. Pacific, and we will be playing bingo. There’s still time to RSVP.

TODAY’S ESSENTIALS

— California’s Republican voters seem to be taking a pass on the U.S. Senate race, according to the PPIC poll.

— A Carlsbad businessman has launched a referendum drive aimed at overturning a law signed last week that would require anyone building homemade firearms to obtain a serial number for the gun and undergo a background check.

— Who will win the November election? Give our Electoral College map a spin.

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