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Kathy Hochul
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Hello, Democrats! Are you ready to elect Kamala Harris the first…president of the United States? Yes, you are! Yes, you are! Friends, like so many of us, my grandparents came from Ireland as teenagers with nothing but hope in their hearts and fire in their bellies. They built their lives in the promised land of Buffalo, New York. A union card meant good work at the steel plant, the steel plant that lifted in my parents from living in a trailer to the middle class. Like other families in my […]
Gina Raimondo
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Hello, Democrats. Hello, Chicago. It's a great honor for me to be here this evening. You know, long before I was the governor of Rhode Island. I was a little girl growing up there in a middle class family. My dad found his American dream in a watch factory in Providence. And that job—that job gave him a way to provide for our family, a community for him to belong to, and so much pride. But like so many Americans in the 80s, after 25 years of his hard work, […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
[cheers] Thank you, Chicago, for your energy. Thank you, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, for your vision. [chants of “AOC! AOC!] Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, Chicago, for your energy. Thank you, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, for your vision. And thank you, Joe Biden, for your leadership. [applause] You know, six years ago. I was taking omelet orders as a waitress in New York City. I didn't have health insurance. My family was fighting off foreclosure. And we were struggling with bills after my dad passed […]
Jill Biden
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
[cheers] Thank you, thank you. [cheers continue, with chants of “Jill! Jill!] Thank you so much. Love you, too. Joe and I have been together for almost 50 years. [cheers] And still, there are moments when I fall in love with him all over again. Like when I handed him our baby, Ashley, for the first time and saw the smile that lit up his face. Or on nights after an exhausting day working in the Senate, when he would read one more bedtime story just because the kids asked. […]
Peggy Flanagan
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Good evening and welcome to the first night of the Democratic National Convention. I'm Peggy Flanagan, lieutenant governor of Minnesota, and I am thrilled to be here in Chicago with Democrats from across the country to rally around Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and their vision for America. It's been eight years since we last came together as a party, and I can feel the excitement in this arena. It's filled with energy and with joy. Our theme tonight is “For the people.” We'll hear from union leaders, civil rights […]
Kamala Harris
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Opening Night Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
[cheers] Good evening, everyone! Good evening, good evening. It is so good to be with everyone this evening in this hall and everyone at home. This is going to be a great week [cheers] and I want to kick us off by celebrating our incredible president, Joe Biden, [cheers] who will be speaking later tonight. Joe, thank you for your historic leadership, for your lifetime of service to our nation, and for all you will continue to do. We are forever grateful to you. [cheers] Thank you, Joe. And looking […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Thank you, my fellow Democrats. Thank you, my fellow Americans. Thank you so much. Thank you all… Wow. There’s a lot of energy in this room, just like there is across the country. Something is happening in America, you can feel it. Something we’ve worked for and dreamed of for a long time. First though, let’s salute President Biden. He has been democracy’s champion at home and abroad. He brought dignity, decency, and confidence back to the White House, and he showed what it means to be a true patriot. […]
Kamala Harris
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Philadelphia Rally (First Rally with Gov. Tim Walz) – Aug. 6, 2024
August 6, 2024
[continuous cheering] We’re doing this! We’re doing this. Good evening, Philadelphia! Good evening. Good evening. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Good evening. Oh, it is good to be back in Pennsylvania. So let me say, on behalf of myself and the first, second gentleman of the United States, my husband, Doug Emhoff, thank you for the warm welcome. [cheers] And let me just say, it’s good to be here with all of the friends, all of the leaders who are here. I want to thank former Gov. Ed Rendell [cheers], […]
Kamala Harris
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Rally in Atlanta – July 30, 2024
July 30, 2024
[cheers and applause] Good evening. Good evening, Georgia. Thank you all. Thank you, thank you…. Thank you all. Thank you very much. Thank you, everybody. Oh, it’s good to be back in Georgia. [cheers and applause] Thank you, everyone. Can we please hear it for Tyler? [cheers] I want to thank Tyler for that incredible introduction. I invited him and several other young entrepreneurs to come and visit with me at the White House. And we had a really very long and important conversation about the future of America. And […]
Kamala Harris
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Campaign Event in Wisconsin (First Campaign Rally) – July 23, 2024
July 23, 2024
Good afternoon, Wisconsin! [cheers] Good afternoon, everyone! Thank you! It is good to be back. Thank you all very much. Can we please hear for Leah and her extraordinary story and leadership? [cheers] And I do believe our teachers do God's work. They teach other people's children and God knows we don't pay them enough. Let's thank her. [cheers] And it is so good to be here and be back with so many extraordinary leaders, including my friend, the great governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers. [cheers] He's here somewhere. My […]