2020 D.N.C. Live Updates: Kamala Harris Accepts V.P. Nomination
Source: NY Times
Senator Kamala Harris of California on Wednesday night accepted the nomination to be the Democratic Party’s nominee to be vice president of the United States, the first Black woman and the first Indian-American woman to be on a major party’s national ticket.
Speaking from Wilmington, Del., where she is working with former Vice President Joseph
R. Biden Jr. and his campaign, Ms. Harris noted the historic nature of her candidacy.
Her mother, Ms. Harris said, “could have never imagined that I would be standing before you now and speaking these words. I accept your nomination for vice president of the United States of America.”
Ms. Harris, acknowledging her own path-breaking status, name-checked an array of trail-blazing Black women in American political history, including Mary Church Terrell, Mary McLeod Bethune, Fannie Lou Hamer, Diane Nash, Constance Baker Motley and Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to run for president whose campaign colors and logo Ms. Harris borrowed for her own presidential campaign.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/08/19/us/dnc-convention-election
As Joe Biden would say, "this is a BIG FUCKING DEAL!"
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I expect that they will also help to connect to that next generation and hopefully get some more of them out to vote. EVERY VOTE IS NEEDED!
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