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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 […]
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 […]