VP Kamala Harris accepts Democratic nomination for president at last night of Democratic convention.....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in Chicago, Illinois during the last night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024 after accepting the nomination for president by the Democratic Party

Clevelandurbannews.com  and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher-August 22, 2024

CHICAGO, Illinois- Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation's first Black and first female vice president, formally accepted the Democratic nomination for president and gave the keynote address during the final night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) Thursday in Chicago, Illinois. And she rocked the Chicago arena filled with thousands of cheering Dems from across the country. Her demeanor was presidential by all credible accounts, pundits said afterwards.

She followed other prominent DNC headliners who spoke this week during the four-day convention, including President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Former defense secretary Leon Penetta, Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, Vice Presidential Nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz, Hillary Clinton and Former President Bill Clinton, and even Oprah, a billionaire media personality and former talk show host who helped Obama become president in 2008.

Many of the women there, both Black and White alike, wore White in honor of the suffragette movement and in response to promises by Republicans to push for a national ban on abortion behind the Supreme Court's controversial 2022 Roe.v. Wade reversal decision.

The Dixie Chicks sang the National Anthem in harmony and DNC co-host and actress Kerrie Washington rallied the crowd of thousands along with actor Tony Goldwyn, her handsome and sexy co-star in the long-running and popular television series "Scandal."

Harris will face Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump for the Nov. 5 presidential election as the nominee for the Democratic Party. She began speaking on Thursday about 9:30 pm., first saluting President Biden, saying "your record is extraordinary as history will show," and then lauding her mother and father as her first role models. She went on to ultimately say "I accept your nomination to be president of the United States of America."

"I promise to be a president for all Americans," Harris said during her speech, adding that she will be "a president who unites us."

And she warned Democrats that losing the election and giving Trump another four years in the White House is dangerous and that his Project 2025 agenda is a sham. She said "America, we are not going back," echoing Michelle Obama's comment during her convention speech Tuesday night.

She said that if elected president she will create an opportunity economy and protect social security and medicare, and she called the upcoming Nov. 5 presidential election "the most important in the life of our nation."

The vice president said that Trump chose the Ohio Supreme Court justices who collectively overturned Roe v Wade and stripped American women of their reproductive freedoms, and that "we [her and Vice Presidential Nominee Wisconsin Gov. Tim Waltz] trust women and when Congress passes a law to restore Roe v Wade I will proudly sign it into law."

The Democratic nominee championed the military and military veterans and spoke also on voting and foreign and domestic security, and said she would bring back the bipartisan comprehensive southern border deal that Trump killed by lobbying Congressional Republicans against the measure.

She concluded her nearly 45 min. speech with a plea for a coming together in this election cycle for Democrats in November, and said "let's get out there and write the next greatest story ever told."

If she wins the November election that she and her fellow Democrats have deemed historic and the most important election in the country's history, Kamala Harris will become the nation's first Black and first female president.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWs.COM




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