This is the fifth of the #transitzone, USA 2024, presidential election campaign updates, recorded Saturday 24 August.

It has been 34 days since Joe Biden withdrew from the race. A truly extraordinary month in USA political history.

The Democratic Party held its national nominating convention in Chicago for four days this week. But there were only the most minor echoes of the turmoil and police brutality of their roiling 1968 convention, held there in the midst of the Vietnam War and in the aftermath of the withdrawal of Lyndon Baines Johnson from the presidential contest and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F Kennedy.

The expected Pro Palestine protests were muted and overall, non disruptive.

This convention was a smooth, slick,  ...