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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 […]
Kamala Harris
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks After the Roll Call at the 2024 Democratic National Convention - Aug. 20, 2024
August 20, 2024
Vice President Harris appeared via video from a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, following the conclusion of the roll call at the convention. Good evening, Milwaukee! And hello to everyone joining us from exciting Chicago. [cheers] The delegates from the Democratic National Convention—well, they just completed their roll call. [cheers] And they have nominated Coach Walz and me to be the next vice president and president of the United States of America. [cheers] And I thank everyone there and here for […]
Michelle Lujan Grisham
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 20, 2024
August 20, 2024
Good evening, America! I'm Michelle Lujan Grisham, governor of the great state of New Mexico. And in my state we like things spicy—a little chile on everything, a little kick in our campaigns—and let me tell you, we are feeling in Fuego right now! [cheers] We are fired up to elect Kamala Harris president of the United States. [cheers] This election is about protecting our democracy and securing our freedoms, including the right to affordable, quality health care. Now, this issue is personal to Vice President Harris, whose mom passed […]
Tammy Duckworth
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 20, 2024
August 20, 2024
[cheers] Hello, Chicago! Hello, Chicago. You know, I went to war to protect America's rights and freedoms. So I take it personally when a five-time draft-dodging coward like Donald Trump [cheers] tries to take away my rights and freedoms in return, especially when it concerns my daughters. My girls, gamer girl Abigail and queen of the monkey bars Miley, are everything to me. But they would never have been born without access to reproductive care, [applause] because after 10 years of struggling with infertility, I was only able to have […]
Michelle Obama
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 20, 2024
August 20, 2024
[cheers] Thank you guys. Okay. We’ve got a big night ahead. Thank you all so much. Thank you so much. [cheers continue] Thank you. Okay. Hey. Hello, Chicago! [cheers] Yeah. All right. Something, something wonderfully magical is in the air, isn’t it? [cheers] Yeah. You know, we’re feeling it here in this arena, but it’s spreading all across this country we love. A familiar feeling that’s been buried too deep for far too long. You know what I’m talking about. [cheers] It’s the contagious power of hope, [cheers] the anticipation, […]
Maxine Waters
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Hello, delegates! Now, you know I've seen a lot in my lifetime. I was just 22 years old when Fanny Lou Hamer made her presence known at another Democratic convention. It was in 1964 in Atlantic City, and she arrived with a group of black delegates from Mississippi [cheers] and she simply asked, she simply asked that her delegates be seated in place of the state's all white delegation. She told the people in the room about the violence she suffered at the hands of white police because she, a […]
Joyce Beatty
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Good evening. I'm Joyce Beatty and I'm proud to represent Ohio in Congress. I was born in the Buckeye state and I've never left. Now, JD Vance likes to talk about how he's from Ohio, but as soon as he could he ran away to Yale and Silicon Valley, cozying up with billionaires while trashing our communities. JD has been our senator for 18 months and what has he done for hardworking Americans? Nothing. He's been busy writing the forward to the book from the Project 2025 guy, while JD […]
Karen Bass
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Hello, Democrats! Are you as excited as I am? [cheers] I've known Kamala Harris for almost 20 years. Our bond was forged years ago by a shared commitment to children, a belief that it is everyone's responsibility to care for every child no matter where they come from and no matter who their parents are. Kamala knows that each generation has an obligation to the next. That's why when I was speaker of the state assembly and she was a prosecutor, we fought to address youth homelessness and reform the […]
Jasmine Crockett
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
[cheers] Well, good good evening, America! On November 5, our nation will hire a president, a commander in chief and leader of the free world. So let's compare their resumes, shall we? One candidate worked at McDonald's while she was in college at an HBCU. [cheers] HU. The other was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and helped his daddy in the family business—housing discrimination, that is. She became a career prosecutor while he became a career criminal with 34 felonies, two impeachments and one porn star to […]
Lauren Underwood
categories: Campaign Speech, Speeches
Remarks at the 2024 Democratic National Convention – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
COVID was the worst public health crisis in a century. Donald Trump failed us, but Joe Biden and Kamala Harris got it under control. Donald Trump said, “It is what it is.” Joe Biden and Kamala Harris said, “Help is on the way.” [cheers] Democrats in Congress tried to lower the cost of health care. Donald Trump tried to take our health care away. We tried to expand Social Security and Medicare. Donald Trump tried to cut them, year after year after year. He took the COVID crisis and turned […]