Steve Kornacki: Democrats More United Than Republicans

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Cable news host Steve Kornacki talked with Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT after the Republican convention in Cleveland to review Donald Trump's acceptance speech and to preview next week's Democratic convention in Philadelphia.

Kornacki, a talk show host and reporter for MSNBC, said the moment that jumped out for him last night was when Trump acknowledged the delegates for openly accepting members of the LGBT community.

"When he starts and he said as a Republican, it makes me feel very good that you applauded that, when he was talking to the crowd there. It was really the only time in his speech that I noticed the tone of his voice change from very loud, bullhorn mode. It seemed like an unusually kind of human moment for him. Something that you don't see that much."

He attempted to contrast what will be different from this week from the Republicans to next week from the Democrats.

"The biggest difference we're going to see between the Democratic and Republican convention besides, obviously, just the basic philosophical differences, the biggest difference is going to be you're going to see a Democratic party establishment that has no reservations about getting behind her. There was a lot of attention this week at the Republican convention, who's not there?...You're going to have everyone, every Congressional leader, every swing state Senate candidate, every rising star in the party. They don't have the reservations about Hillary Clinton that a lot of people in the Republican establishment had."

Kornacki pointed out how Hillary Clinton's choice of a running mate will show that the party has united around her.

"The Vice-Presidential pick, we don't know who it's going to be yet, but there's a lot of indications right now that it's the leaning toward Tim Kaine from Virginia. That's a pick that, if the Clinton people were really squarely thinking about Sanders folks in line right now, I don't think they'd be going down the Tim Kaine road. There's some objections to him from the left, from Sanders supporters. I don't think that's necessarily the name you'd be hearing. I think that tells you they believe with Obama out there, with Elizabeth Warren out there, somebody with a lot of appeal to Bernie Sanders supporters, and Sanders on board, he did it in his own unique way, but I think they feel they're not threatened there as much as they were thinking they would be."