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Kamala Harris can also win it if Democrats do their part.
I think the hardest thing in the world for him had to be deciding to step back and have Kamala Harris be our leader and our candidate but the sacrifices that he's made to do that are just in a long line of sacrifices.
We have a good plan in place. In fact, there was a breach at one of the fences, but it was brief that breach and the police actually stepped in, did a great job to the superintendent of police came and backed up his own men and frankly…
Well, he's our civil rights leader. I mean, here in Chicago, certainly, because this is where he came from, he's somebody that all of us who care deeply about making advancements in civil rights look to.
To make progress on the things we care about,the things that really affect people’s lives,we need to remember that we’ve all got our blind spots and contradictions and prejudices.
Donald Trump fell asleep at his own trial. And when he woke up,he made his own kind of history—the first person to run for President with 34 felony convictions.
But here’s the good news,Chicago: All across America,in big cities and small towns,away from all the noise,the ties that bind us together are still there.
America’s ready for a new chapter. America’s ready for a better story. We are ready for a President Kamala Harris.
An America that taps what Lincoln called on the eve of civil war,our “bonds of affection.” An America that taps what he called “the better angels of our nature.”
She’s not the neighbor running the leaf blower. She’s the neighbor rushing over to help when you need a hand.
Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican or somewhere in between,we have all had people like that in our lives. People like Kamala’s parents,who crossed oceans because they believed in the promise of America.
At a time when millions of our fellow citizens were sick and dying,we needed a leader with the character to put politics aside and do what was right.
At a time when our economy was reeling,we needed a leader with the determination to drive what would become the world’s strongest recovery: 15 million jobs,higher wages,lower healthcare costs.
Our job is to convince people that democracy can actually deliver. And,and in doing that,we can’t just point to what we’ve already accomplished. We can’t just rely on the ideas of the past. We need to chart a new way forward to meet the…
I am feeling hopeful because this convention has always been pretty good to kids with funny names who believe in a country where anything is possible; because we have a chance to elect someone who has spent her entire life trying to give…
That’s the America Kamala Harris and Tim Walz believe in: an America where “we,the people” includes everyone.
A Harris-Walz administration can help us move past some of the tired,old debates that keep stifling progress.