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Elissa Slotkin
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
Good evening. I'm Elissa Slotkin. I am honored to be your U.S. Senate nominee from the great state of Michigan. Go Blue! Go Green! My peeps, from Michigan. My life in service began in New York City on September 11. As the smoke cleared, I knew my career would be spent protecting the country we all love. I was recruited by the CIA and served three tours in Iraq alongside our military. And I worked at the White House under presidents of both parties and as an acting assistant secretary […]
Maura Healey
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
For the people. Those three words define the role of a prosecutor. To serve not only our clients in the courtroom, but our community and our country. To give people a sense of security and safeguard the principles that hold our nation together. To stand up to abusers and bullies and stand up for the voiceless and the vulnerable. In other words, exactly what Kamala Harris has done her whole life. When she was DA, mothers of children who'd been murdered, whose cases had gone cold, would come to her […]
Debra Haaland
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
[speaking first in Keres] In my Keres language—greetings, friends and family. My name is Crushed Turquoise, and I'm from the Turquoise Clan. [cheers] Thirty-five generations ago, my ancestors built lives in the high desert of New Mexico. I am on this stage tonight because of them. While fishing with my dad and running through the desert with my cousins, I learned that we have a responsibility to take care of our planet. [applause] Donald Trump never learned that lesson. He called the climate crisis a hoax. [boos] He made it […]
Gretchen Whitmer
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 22, 2024
I'm Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. In Lansing, they call me governor. But in Detroit they call me Big Gretch. [cheers] Donald Trump called me “that woman from Michigan” as an insult. Being a woman from Michigan is a badge of honor. [cheers] Like women across America, we just GSD—get stuff done. [cheers] At 29. I joined the sandwich generation. Sandwiched between working and raising my newborn and caring for my mom, who was dying from brain cancer. It was hard. But not extraordinary. It's life. Those nights reminded me who I […]
Gabrielle Giffords
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 22, 2024
August 21, 2024
Hello, fellow Americans! [cheers] I’m Gabby Giffords. I was born in the great state of Arizona. [cheers] I was born with grit. I grew up racing motorcycles, mucking stalls, and exploring the beautiful desert. I fell for an astronaut. [cheers] For five years, I served in Congress from a swing district. Everybody called me a rising star, then on January 8, 2011, a man tried to assassinate me. He shot 19 people. He killed six—terrible, terrible day. I almost died, but I fought for life and I survived. [cheers] I […]
Amy Klobuchar
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Nominating Tim Walz for Vice President at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 21, 2024
August 21, 2024
On behalf of the great state of Minnesota [cheers] where purple rains, I stand before you in support of our next vice president, Tim Walz. [cheers] In Minnesota, we trust a coach who turned a team that was 0 and 27 into state champions. [cheers] In Minnesota, we trust a hunter who has stood in a deer stand in 10-degree weather. In Minnesota, we trust a candidate who has made a viral video on how to change a burnt-out headlight. And I know we aren't alone, but in Minnesota, we […]
Catherine Cortez Masto
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 21, 2024
August 21, 2024
Hello, Chicago! You know, before I was senator, I was Nevada's attorney general. And that's when I met Kamala Harris, my colleague in California. Now, we bonded over many things. And working together, I quickly learned what kind of person she is. She is a strong leader. Here's how I know. As AGs, we took on the big banks after the foreclosure crisis. And let me tell you, Kamala did not settle for less than homeowners deserved. Her leadership, yeah, her leadership helped win billions for working families nationwide. Delivering […]
Veronica Escobar
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 21, 2024
August 21, 2024
Buenas noches. Like countless Texans, I grew up going back and forth across the border from El Paso to Ciudad Juarez. My family would shop, have dinner, go to the doctor, pick up medicines. The border is my beloved home, the place where my children grew up. Forget what you hear on the news. I'm from there. When it comes to the border, hear me when I say, you know nothing, Donald Trump. He and his Republican imitators see the border and immigration as a political opportunity to exploit instead […]
Suzan DelBene
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 21, 2024
August 21, 2024
Hello, Democrats! It is my honor to represent the great state of Washington and to lead the House Democrats' work to take back the majority. As I travel the country, I hear the same thing. People want governance that works. They don't want tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. Not a national abortion ban or more chaos and dysfunction or blind loyalty to Trump. In other words, they don't want Republicans in charge. We're here because we need to elect Vice President Harris and Governor Walz. [cheers] And giving them Democratic […]
Cecile Richards
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 21, 2024
August 21, 2024
These last few weeks have been a celebration of women, from cheering on Team USA to supporting Kamala Harris for president. As my mother, Governor Ann Richards, would say, “I hear America singing.” When women are free to make their own decisions about, uh, about their lives and to follow our dreams, we are unstoppable. But when Roe v. Wade was overturned, a generation of young people lost that freedom. Like Ashley, a 12-year-old rape survivor in Mississippi. Because of her state's abortion ban, she started 7th grade with a […]