In the basement of the Hyatt Regency Chicago hotel, where state delegates to the Democratic National Convention mingled over coffee, the top corner of a red, white and blue banner stuck onto a wall began to peel and sag.
Upon seeing this, Parker Short, the 22-year-old delegate with a misleading last name leapt up and slapped it back into place.
Short, the president of the Young Democrats of Georgia, went viral on social media for dancing and singing along to Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” at Vice President Kamala Harris’ Atlanta rally late last month, but he is not the only example of youthful energy bouncing around the DNC.
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