CHICAGO, IL (ANI) – Vice President Kamala Harris on August 22, speaking at the Democratic Party National Convention here focused on her personal story and vowed a “new way forward” as she reached out to voters after one of the most extraordinary turnarounds in US political history.
Harris began her speech to share her life story about being raised by a single mother in California, Shyamala Gopalan who immigrated to the US at the age of 19 from India.
“The path that led me here in recent weeks was no doubt unexpected,” she said. “But I’m no stranger to unlikely journeys,” she added. She recalled moving often as a child, and eventually settling around San Francisco, where she was raised by a community of caretakers. Harris shared with the audience the lessons learned from her mother. Harris attacked GOP candidate Donald Trump, calling him “an unserious man” and urged Americans to consider the “extremely serious” consequences of putting him back in the White House.
“Consider the power he will have, especially after the United States Supreme Court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution,” she said. Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails and how he would use the immense powers of the presidency of the United States, not to improve your life, not to strengthen our national security, but to serve the only client he has ever had — himself,” Harris said.
“On behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on Earth, I accept your nomination to be the President of the United States of America, ” Harris said at the DNC convention. She described the upcoming election as the “most important in the life of our nation.”
Harris also promised to bring back the bipartisan border security bill and sign it into law which Trump had openly stymied by calling Republican lawmakers and telling them it would affect his chances at the ballot box if immigration was seen as being dealt with.
The anger amongst Democrats was palpable at the convention as Trump keeps attacking immigration as their failed issue. Harris also criticized Donald Trump on the issue of reproductive rights and said she will sign into law the bill if elected to president.
“We trust women, and when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom. As president of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law,” she said.
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