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Katharine Harris is a Republican politician from Florida, best known for her role as the Secretary of State during the controversial 2000 presidential election. Born on April 5, 1964, she played a pivotal role in overseeing the election process in Florida, which was critical in determining the outcome of the election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Her actions during this time garnered national attention and made her a prominent figure in American politics. Harris later served as a U.S. Representative for Florida's 13th congressional district from 2003 to 2007, where she focused on issues such as national security and education reform. Throughout her career, she has been an advocate for conservative values and has remained an influential voice within the Republican Party in Florida.
In this election, we have a chance to change the course of history. We're all in this fight. Years from now, this moment will have passed and our children and our grandchildren will look in our eyes and they're going to ask us, where were…
We must elect a president who will bring something different, something better and do the important work, a president who will bring all of us together, black, white, Latino, Asian, indigenous, to achieve the future we collectively want…
Right now, we have a president who turns our tragedies into political weapons. Joe Biden will be a president who turns our challenges into purpose.
Joe Biden had the audacity to choose a black woman to be his running mate, breaking one of the most substantial barriers that has existed in our country, and that he made that decision with whatever risks that brings.
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When you have one ticket that can say the phrase black lives matter and another who has been full-time sowing hate and division in our country, those are the things that are going to motivate black women to vote.
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By Joe asking me to be his running mate, he has pushed forward something that might have otherwise taken decades. This is a statement about the fact that we're not going to just wait for somebody to give us permission.
Folks want democracy. People want to make sure that they and their families can actually be OK, that they have the economics that they need, that they have -- they have job security, and they have healthcare.
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Joe Biden had the audacity to choose a black woman to be his running mate. How incredible is that? And what a statement about Joe Biden, that he decided that he was going to do that thing that was about breaking one of the most substantial…
I'm the only black woman in the United States Senate, the only one, and only the second in the history of the United States Senate. And so, when we look, again, at how far we have to go, we have a lot of work to do.
Why don't they want us to vote? Why are they creating obstacles to us voting? Well, the answer is because, when we vote, things change. When we vote, things get better. When we vote, we address the disparities we have been talking about…
Why are they creating obstacles to us voting? Well, the answer is because, when we vote, things change. And so we know how to jump over or get around the obstacles that for many of us have been in place since the day we were born.
I think it's important that the American people looking at the election coming up ask the current occupant of the White House, when am I going to get vaccinated. When am I actually going to get vaccinated? Because there may be some grand…
My mother and father, they came from opposite sides of the world to arrive in America. One from India and the other from Jamaica, in search of a world class education. But what brought them together was the civil rights movement of the…
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Joe, I'm so proud to stand with you. And I do so mindful of all the heroic and ambitious women before me whose sacrifice, determination and resilience makes my presence here today even possible.
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