MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd said Thursday that Hillary Clinton's address accepting the Democratic nomination for president could easily have been given by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt,).
Todd said Clinton's list of liberal issues was unlikely to sway Republicans that Democrats hope to swipe from Donald Trump.
"They believe they're going to win this election by making this—because it's anti-Trump, and that gives her the luxury of, I think, campaigning on a more progressive agenda because of Trump," Todd said. "That appears to be the calculation they made. I just—it's not going to win over a lot of extra Republicans, put it that way, but I don't know if that was the goal of the speech."
Mitchell agreed the speech's strongly progressive nature was reminiscent of Sanders, as well as adding the effort of the address to "humanize" Clinton wasn't a success.
It was not poetry, but rather prose, the MSNBC host said.
"The effort to humanize her, to soften her, Chelsea's introduction, the film narrated by Morgan Freeman," Mitchell said. "She was a soccer mom in Chelsea's description, someone who always, you know, showed up for school plays and read stories to her child, and as she herself acknowledged tonight, I've been knocked down a number of times and I pick myself up. So, she tried to touch all of those human bases. I'm not sure she completely succeeded at that."