Democrats officially nominate Joe Biden for president, and then have an awkward Zoom party

Joe and Jill Biden.
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From business meetings to interviews to presidential nominations, Zoom makes everything awkward.

After a virtual roll call vote on Tuesday night, former Vice President Joe Biden officially became the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee. The roll call was fun, with calamari making a surprise appearance from Rhode Island, but when it was over, the screen was overtaken by random people clapping and cheering and dancing, before cutting to Biden, looking off camera inside a school library, waiting for a signal so he could start speaking.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.