Episode IV: A New Hope
On Monday, July 22, 2024, one day after President Biden bravely ended his re-election run for a second term and endorsed his vice president as his replacement, Vice President Kamala Harris paid her first visit to the “Harris for President” campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, to meet the campaign staff and make a few remarks.
With only 106 days left until the general election on November 5th, and no time to waste, with a nation on edge over what may be the biggest threat ever to our Democracy with the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, still seething over his removal of office by voters in 2020, having vowed to seek revenge and, if elected, “be a dictator on Day One,” she stepped up to the podium. And delivered.
It is my hope that every one of you will take 10 short minutes and watch what I think is one of the best political speeches I’ve witnessed in my lifetime. Powerful. Real. Laser-focused and uplifting. Exactly what we need.
And for all of you who have been in a deep despair, get ready to be jolted off your sofa.
Hit play.
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I’ve been glued to media since her speech. I was feeling down and hopeless here in Florida, but now there is so much energy and excitement! It’s finally happening! It’s happening! We are going to have a female president!
When I watched this yesterday and heard Kamala begin by defining Trump and saying "I know Trump's Type" I started to cry. I worked for Bernie Sanders campaign in 2016 and I could not hardly breathe when Trump won that election. I have talked for years since about Trump and how I grew up around guys like Trump. I am 74 now, worked for many years as a nurses aide in health care facilities. Poverty wages.. I never had health care insurance, nor did my kids. Poverty wages. In our small town in the late 60's and 70's and 80's and 90's poverty was the way of our lives, while we watched guys like Trump assault us in our youth and make fun of us afterwards with other bullies just like them...we just called them Bullies, under our breath, so they wouldn't hear us and bully us more.. When I see and hear Trump, I see and hear those same guys from my past. Bullies. Yesterday I ordered a "Kamala for President 2024" button online for 3.dollars. When I get it am wearing it everyday. When I get my Soc Security in Aug, am ordering more buttons and a shirt. " Kamala for Pres" and am out the door to do work for this campaign . In 1994, my sister who was gay and bullied by guys like Trump , ran away and joined the Heavens Gate Cult and in 1997 committed suicide in that cult in San Diego Calif. along with over 30 other people . It was a Cult of Personality...they believed in Applewhite and they lost everything.