Emptiness highlighted to what end?

Anthony Zurcher, BBC:

Her speech delivered with smiles and warmth, but it took place in a rather haunting environment – a room constructed to replicate a party convention hall, complete with signposts for each state delegation, but devoid of the cheering crowds.

It all had slightly post-apocalyptic feeling, which along with the vacant classrooms from which Senator Elizabeth Warren and Jill Biden early spoke, makes it seem that the emptiness of the current pandemic-stricken nation is a feeling Democrats want to highlight – and lay at Trump’s feet.

Why would Democrats feel the need to do this?

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