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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Harris calls on Americans to reject divisions and defeat threat of Trump's candidacy
By ZEKE MILLER, WILL WEISSERT and DARLENE SUPERVILLE CHICAGO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
95 Comments
Seigi
Wow this is amazing news! The glass ceiling will broken! Freedom shall prevail!
dagon
Kamala was laser focused with very effective cadence.
Where was the word salad, non sequitur ,babbling, cackling, low intelligence?
As usual more Trump/MAGA projection. She laid out the case like a top notch legislative mind.
I am not in total policy alignment with Harris but she laid out a very effective case against Trump and for her presidency.
Bob Fosse
I thought change was good. He wore drag, called 45 Hitler and changed his name several times in the past. Is that a chameleon too?
TaiwanIsNotChina
Kamala Harris, for the People, versus Donald John Trump!!!
Jimizo
Not a great speaker but did okay.
Wasn’t weird.
Peter Neil
wow, one of the better candidate speeches in the last decade or more.
all the misinformation, slanted reporting and snide sound bites by trump and maga about her has been dispelled. she barely glanced at the teleprompter a few times.
stick a fork in trump. he’s done.
Ricky Kaminski13
Credit where credit is due. She was very good. Almost wanted to believe the hype myself! The crowd was very happy, but of course she will always kill it within her own bubble. Still, she looked very comfortable out there, not too long, very inspirational if you can allow yourself to go there and not let cynicism take too much of a hold.
As an Aussie have never understood why the abortion question is so front and center of their platform and appeal for support, I get the border and the wages stuff but not abortion. Not exactly inspiring stuff for an outsider, where you would think privacy would be prudent, that and there should be so many better policy roads to run on. Maybe not? Then again, there’s a lot we will never understand about America!
We have a race on our hands. Hopefully Americans can keep their heads and dignity during the process. Keep it classy y'all. Fight the instinct to demonize the other side and you will win the respect of everyone.
May the best candidate win, fairly, gracefully and for the greater good of all.
The debates are gunna be huge!
Now that entertainment.
Underworld
The choice is clear: good economy and democracy under Harris or inflation and threat to democracy under Trump.
NOMINATION
Kamala called 46 a segregationist and sexual abuser. What's up now?
wallace
Since Harris has become the Democrat nomination the party and its supporters have been greatly uplifted and given new hope of success.
Trump had 2 years to campaign. Harris has 75 days. It will be an achievement if she wins.
Jimizo
So, you are saying they are both chameleons?
Welcome to politics.
NOMINATION
You talking about the same democracy that got Harris nominated? Downvote me to oblivion if you agree.
yakyak
For the slogan "We are not going back" that DNC stadium sure looked like it was 1990.
Even the balloons dropped.
Simon Foston
wallaceToday 12:35 pm JST
He doesn't seem to have much to show for it. I suppose that's what happens when he spends all his time playing golf, sitting in courtrooms or rambling inconsequentially about himself.
Simon Foston
NOMINATIONToday 12:38 pm JST
No one challenged her for the nomination. There was nothing to stop them if they wanted to. was there?
Bob Fosse
Hypocrisy apparently.
Oh and falling for Facebook posts as usual.
Got a quote where Kamala called Biden a ‘sexual abuser’?
8T
All the testosterone was outside keeping the thousands of protesters at bay, so the DNC could have their sweet event.
NOMINATION
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-kamala-harris-says-believe-181901449.html
bass4funk
On Trump, abortion, but what about policy? Closing the border? Deporting illegals, supporting the police?
Worse, estrogen talk and….
Like what, using Trump’s ideas or hoping that people don’t believe that she’s a political Trojan horse
And that’s it, but I do like the Beyoncé rumor to keep people’s attention, even I bought into that, got me good.
Some dude
Strikes me that she is making an appeal to overcome divisions, to a country that seems to prefer to be divided.
bass4funk
That won’t happen.
stormcrow
Great speech. Harris hit it out of the park. Now, can she win this thing?
Some dude
bass4funkToday 01:02 pm JST
That won’t happen.
You telling me that if she wins, the republicans and MAGA people will welcome her administration?
To quote Joe Biden, c'mon man...
Hito Bito
So, according to Nielsen's viewership ratings, there's been a 25% drop in viewership on Day 1 through 3 compared to Biden's snoozefest back in 2020.
Everything's fine. The new "standard bearer", a sitting incumbent VP who pretends to be running against the incumbent? who only last month half the Democrats themselves wanted to see dumped from the ticket (you remember, surely? LOL), today is the "Second Coming of the Messiah". LOL.
Worst Democrat ticket since Mondale-Ferraro. By far. Let the exposing of the long history of radical voting and Left-of-Left statements begin!
Jimizo
Whether that’s achievable is hard to say but that sentiment helped Biden win in 2020.
Trump calls his own voters ‘basement dwellers’ and those who criticize him ‘haters and losers’.
He doesn’t divide in that sense. He despises both sides equally.
The true unity candidate?
Bob Fosse
So, no then.
bass4funk
Which goes back to the Beyoncé rumors, Oprah helped as well. They did that well, I’m giving credit where credit is due.
No, that’s why I’m a conservative.
Because she laid…..uh, low for 3 days.
NOMINATION
Yep, she did. You can even look it up on all of your country's left wing rags. Yahoo has a site there too.
Blacklabel
she is driving right now.
something wrong with the right now way?
TaiwanIsNotChina
Cite the exact moment he said he would be president for all Americans.
Blacklabel
“Donald Trump said that he is running to be president “for all of America, not half of America,” as he accepted his party’s nomination in his first speech since the assassination attempt against him less than a week ago.
“The discord and division in our society must be healed,”
NOMINATION
Speaking of the party of unifiers lol
Cards fan
Donald says one thing and does another. He says a lot of goofy, silly stuff. Your point?
bass4funk
Most of his speeches, now that doesn’t mean that people will accept it, bottom line is, Kamala can’t unite the country, Trump as well. I want normalcy and Dems what chaos. I’m a devout Capitalist and entrepreneur to the core, most liberals are not. I want women to be women, libs want and support anyone that wants to be a woman. I believe in less government and as little as possible, most libs want government to control every aspect of your life, I want to eat whatever I want, libs think eating plants and insects is more sustainable, I want a gas guzzler Mustang II with a supped up engine, libs and to plug stuff in and wait and wait…
Yeah, doubt unity is going to workout
bass4funk
Did I say that verbatim? Yes or No?
NOMINATION
So why should we believe Kamala? Gives us a list.
Blacklabel
LA Times: ‘I will be president for all Americans’; transcript of Donald Trump’s election night victory speech”
and by the next morning, Democrats were already announcing impeachment efforts.
ClippetyClop
Yes. Scroll up / check archives etc.
Do you want to be united with Liberals?
Yes or no?
Blacklabel
Scroll up and see where your teammate claimed it was never said. Then reply guy to them instead of me.
Cards fan
Donald did NOTHING to try and be a president for all Americans. He's just a pathetic loser who only got elected so he could line his own pockets.
Blacklabel
“She didn’t mention China, she didn’t mention fracking, she didn’t mention Energy, she didn’t mention, meaningfully, Russia and Ukraine, she didn’t mention the big subjects of the day, that are destroying our Country," Trump posted on Truth Social shortly after Harris' speech concluded. “
“No specific programs, ALL TALK, NO ACTION — Why didn’t she do it three and a half years ago?" Trump said in another post.”
he’s not wrong.
ClippetyClop
Crying about Stolen Elections almost four years after you instigated an attempted coup sure is a great path to Unity and Healing.
Erik Morales
I love them! They are so American and stand for our original values! I hope they win the election!
Cards fan
A bit rich coming from Donald. lmao He's so triggered.
EvilBuddha
It's a good thing that she has brought up the topic of division. Maybe she can address the racism that some of her own progressive pseudo-liberals support base direct against Indian Americans in general and Indians in particular.
It's a good thing she has managed to pass herself off as black to these pseudo-liberals, otherwise she too would have felt the full brunt of their racism and hypocrisy.
Obvious that the pseudo-liberal racists hate Trump more than they hate Indians, so she is safe for now.
bass4funk
Would never have worked out
We feel the same about this new nominee.
RichardPearce
Americans are being told that someone who will cry crocodile tears as American bombs slaughter starving civilians, who will call the overthrow of, or attempted overthrow of, democratically elected governments is supporting democracy, who will ignore the ever growing, government enabled, disparity that enables Trump to appeal to so many, is their progressive choice.
Will they respond enthusiastically?
That'll be the official line.
Will the rest of the world praise the splendid new clothes of the Emporor, or notice the naked truth?
Most will believe their eyes.
Cards fan
Thanks for conceding he never even tried.
I'm not a therapist, I couldn't care less how people feel. The fact is Trump is a crook, and he did line his pockets while in running for and as president.
ClippetyClop
Hehe, Oh Great Healer Trump is holding an awards gala for the basement dwellers who he incited to overthrow a duly elected government.
‘Unity’ meh.
Underworld
Blacklabel
to “chart a new way forward”
No she isn’t, Biden is president and voters see Kamala as different and someone new.
You might not like that, but that’s the common perception.
Cards fan
In what way did he try? Name one. Just one.
patkim
Kamala Harris gave a great speech. I liked how she was able to tell the story of her upbringing. I (and I'm sure most Americans) can relate to that kind of way to grow up. Most Americans don't grow into privilege. Most Americans have to work hard to make a living. It was also refreshing to hear a speech that was inspiring and actually made sense. You can see on the faces of her family and friends that they actually love and care for each other. The mood and feelings I got from watching the RNC and DNC have been like night and day. Even the roll call was way more amped up at the DNC than the RNC.
I think it's the other way around. The GOP (at least the GOP of today) want chaos. Trump himself said that you have to agree and think like him or "You're fired!" On the other hand, Democrats will live with you, even if you don't think or look the same. The GOP wants segregation and to take away your rights. They want control over people's bodies. Trump himself said that he'll make it so that you won't have to vote ever again. Sounds like what Putin would say. Also, Trump doesn't seem to like or think people can be of more than one race or ethnic background. He said that Kamala Harris was once Indian and then somehow turned Black. He doesn't understand the concept that people nowadays can be of mixed ethnic backgrounds. Also, the GOP's definition of "weird" seems really different than Democrats' definition. I don't think a son crying to show love for his father is weird, but I do think a Republican praying for an actor pretending to be jailed is weird, or a Republican doing some lewd act in a theater is weird.
ClippetyClop
@pac
Just toying with MAGA, nothing but that.
Might not be able to do it after November.
Some dude
Most of his speeches, now that doesn’t mean that people will accept it, bottom line is, Kamala can’t unite the country, Trump as well. I want normalcy and Dems what chaos. I’m a devout Capitalist and entrepreneur to the core, most liberals are not. I want women to be women, libs want and support anyone that wants to be a woman. I believe in less government and as little as possible, most libs want government to control every aspect of your life, I want to eat whatever I want, libs think eating plants and insects is more sustainable, I want a gas guzzler Mustang II with a supped up engine, libs and to plug stuff in and wait and wait…
Seems to cement my previous comment:
Strikes me that she is making an appeal to overcome divisions, to a country that seems to prefer to be divided.
ClippetyClop
Scroll up.
Unity, Libs, yes, no?
Awards for insurrectionists who tried to hang someone?
bass4funk
No, they absolutely don’t want chaos, that is the reason why people are voting for the guy and yes, if you are working for the former president and in his cabinet, if you don’t do as you are supposed to, you’re going to get fired, you serve at the pleasure of the president if you don’t like serving under the president, then you can always turn in your resignation.
Interesting that she said that, but it has to be under their conditions, this is one reason, and I’m glad you brought this up, take a look at California and look at how many people are leaving that state, why is that?, Because California is a one party state, and they don’t allow for descent the liberal and Marxist ideology of the California legislator is so out of control, they’re not willing to work with people, so people have no choice but to leave
So if that is the case, then why are so many black and Latinos running towards Trump, for 70 years the Democrats did nothing for minorities, I think that’s where the real segregation comes in.
What about the innocence and defenseless that have no voice, do their lives matter?
How? How would he do that? Can you give me a breakdown how that would look, because he would have to override Congress, how would he do that?
dagon
This has been a GOP theme through the last few Dem admins.
Obama, Biden and now Harris , even though their policies in office are classic neo-liberalism, are being secretly controlled by advisors to unleash a crypto-Marxist or Islamist agenda.
Plays into Trump's scare-mongering ,red-baiting,birtherism and xenophobia all at once.
Harris gave a very hopeful and American speech and I don't think it is going to work this time for Trump.
bass4funk
Or the Dems…
His own children are mixed technically.
She said it herself! So Trump is wrong for repeating something that she herself said?
He absolutely does. He just needs to look at his grandchildren
I don’t Think that if you are 6’8 yeahis any reason to label someone as weird or how they physically look either.
You have that on the Dem side as well.
bass4funk
Because you can’t, then let’s just move on
gokai_wo_maneku
Harris has to be careful. Remember that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016, but Trump won the Electoral College and became president. Isn't it time to abolish the Electoral College? For some states, the delegates do not have to follow the wishes of their constituents.
TaiwanIsNotChina
He's never said it because like you, he believe Democrats are a greater threat to America than Vladimir Putin.
Simon Foston
bass4funkToday 01:28 pm JST
Oh really. Do you believe in paying each according to his contribution, each according to his means?
What a lot of utter rubbish. I see myself as liberal whereas you have this deranged view of us as a cult of communist hippies. I accept conservative ideas and policies if I think they will do the most good for the most people. I am liberal in the sense that if I think something isn't working any more it should be changed or fixed. I am not in favour of "job creators" getting rich and stiffing the hard working employees who make the money for them while the politicians they bribed let them do it.
Not if most conservatives are like you.
TaiwanIsNotChina
The anti-Americans will titter but they are ultimately powerless compared to the US, which is is the real naked truth.
bass4funk
No, you did not.
Their policies? Absolutely!
Jeremiah
Sometimes you just need a translation.
“Trump-Vance will DESTROY Democracy!”=(Translation: “Trump-Vance will stop our, the Harris-Walz, political platform!”)
“Harris-Walz are CHAMELEONS!”=(Translation: “We have no idea what the Harris-Walz platform is!”)
patkim
That is why Trump had the highest turnover of his Cabinet members and staff who were let go by him, or left. Heck, so many of them such as General Mattis called him a moron, or Scaramucci hated working for him. I've never seen so many former workers of Trump who have come out and said that he was terrible to work with and under.
Well, conditions like obeying the laws of the Constitution, not trying to overthrow the government, working hard, not committing any crimes, loving and helping your neighbor, not disrespecting people because of their gender, color, race, or sexual preference, and not trying to use a gun to solve all your grievances and problems. I think I could abide by and live with those conditions. I don't know why MAGA can't.
Because the ones who do, are paid off by him. And to be fair, there are way more Blacks and Latinos running towards Harris than Trump.
That doesn't make sense. The world if filled with "innocent and defenseless". Deer and other wild animals are often "innocent and defenseless". Are you suddenly advocating to ban all hunting too?
And the fact that there is no love between him and them is quite telling.
Yeah, but it's too bad he can't always remember their names.
Well, it's Trump's words; not mine. I know he can't do it. But in his delusional mind, he can. And let's not forget, he tried to overthrow the last election results, and destroy the very foundation of what America was built on, so maybe he will go to those extremes if he wants to.
Blacklabel
There is no way that even the very few policies announced can unify Americans.
there is no way to accept all that far left socialist adjacent nonsense as good for Americans.
policy, and safety and prosperity from those policies, is what unifies.
there is no joy or good vibes caused by bad policy.
ClippetyClop
Bass: Yes or No?
Clip: Yes
Just because you didn’t like the answer, doesn’t mean I didn’t answer.
So it’s your turn. Do you want Unity with Liberals?
Yes, or no?
Cephus
"Harris calls on Americans to reject divisions and defeat threat of Trump's candidacy."
The real threat to the Americans democracy is the democrat political machine which will go to any length destroying those who stand on their way. They will bankrupt you, prosecute using lawfare as their weapon of choice, if they fail? We still have unresolved case of assassination from a kid purportedly using encrypted messaging platforms in German, New Zealand, and Belgium. Let ask ourselves why those nations.
Underworld
bass4funk
They want control over people's bodies.
If your religious beliefs believe that abortion is murder, then don't have an abortion. But most Americans don't believe it is, so mind your own business.
ClippetyClop
I thought they were ‘radical Marxist’ policies?
Make up your MAGA minds so we can achieve ’Healing’
Underworld
Blacklabel
And yet it is.
That's because there isn't any far left socialist adjacent nonsense.
Yup. And Harris/Walz unifies.
And yet there is joy and good vibes at the DNC.
fxgai
He was a poor loser at the last election, but come on now… he isn’t doing this presidential thing for the money. Like his opponent, he thinks he will do a better job for America.
Biden on the other hand… I read reports now that he took in 27 million dollars from overseas interests. Is that why he was taken out of the race?
Cards fan
According to the right, times were more propserous and safe under Trump, yet he lost his reelection.
He's on track to lose again. The American people know what they need and want, and it's not weird authoritarians like Trump and Vance. That's what we can't stand.
wallace
A problem is when the GOP became the Trump party. Not all Republicans support him. He divides the party and the nation. He can't unify anyone.
MAGA supporters throw a lot of crap around about Marxism and Socialism.
Cards fan
One has to be incredibly naive to think he's running for any reason other than to stay out of jail. Come on now.
lololol You read a report from Republicans in congress who've done nothing but make up nonsense for gullible schmucks to pick up. If there was any truth to any of the reports, than why haven't they impeached? Come on now, it's nonsense.
ClippetyClop
Inciting a mob to overthrow a government and hang his VP who wouldn’t support his coup ‘Poor’ indeed.
Haha! So he should give it all back, right?
Putin already tried that. It was thrown out a few days ago.
rcch
Hmm, interesting article—
”From a middle-class household, Kamala worked her way up to become vice president of the United States of America.”
Doing what?
…
”Kamala has shown her allegiance to this nation, not by spewing anger and bitterness, but by living a life of service and always pushing the doors of opportunity open to others.”
What service, exactly?
Maybe name someone who got to walk through those doors?
…
”As a prosecutor, Kamala stood up for children who had been victims of sexual abuse.”
Stood up—with what results?
…
”As vice president, she helped take on the drug companies to cap the cost of insulin, lower the cost of health care and give families with kids a tax cut.”
She ‘helped’!
—
Kamala Harris has been in politics for decades, but nobody can think of a major act of leadership or truly bold action—let alone any serious results she’s personally delivered.
The most incompetent presidential candidate in US history.
;)
bass4funk
Yes
It doesn’t matter what they think, because no one elected these people to the Presidency, so they’re allowed to think whatever they want. At the end of the day, the President has to trust and feel he can rely on the people in his administration
That never happened.
Ok, all that rant has nothing to do with the Presidency or his job description, these are just tired old personal liberal political hit pieces and nothing more.
Can you prove that?
Trump got 20% the biggest number more than any other Republican President, that’s a number the Dems can’t afford to lose especially in a close election like this and remember, Bush only got 8% of the Black vote.
Which are we talking about women, abortion, babies or animals? Focus please.
Who told you that, Ana Navarro?
My God, what are you reading?
Taken out of context as usual
Yeah, sure, ROLF! Too funny!
Cephus
According to the right, times were more propserous and safe under Trump, yet he lost his reelection.
And how sure are you he legitimately lost the election.?
"He's on track to lose again. The American people know what they need and want, and it's not weird authoritarians like Trump and Vance. That's what we can't stand."
Thanks for your crystal ball! And I hope American people are wise enough to see through the veil of ignorance and arrogance from the Democrats. People need economic stability. But all what I heard from that convention is "joy" and empty platitudes. No economic agenda, just joy unfortunately joy doesn't pay bills.
Cards fan
Because he did. He's not president. He sued dozens of times and lost nearly every case.
It's called polling.
lol
ClippetyClop
Very. Ask Fox or Rudy. Or even Trump, who admitted that he lost.
Anything else you need us to un-MAGA for you?
Underworld
Cephus
And yet the Democrats haven't been using any lawfare. Courts are deciding Trumps indictments, not politicians.
bass4funk
I think that was the solution
Notice how they’re either not running or on the down ballots, that’s a good thing.
Neither are the Democrats. As bad as Biden is (and he really is) he’s not a Marxist, then you have Pelosi who’s more moderate and then you have the crazy squad that are basically holding a knife to this woman’s neck. Obama can’t stand Joe, he’s unsure about Harris, so they put on a great show, but the Dems are far, far from being united as a party
Hey, even with lipstick, a pig is still a big.
Blacklabel
Every policy she announces prevents another subset of people from being able to justify voting for her.
Cards fan
Amen brother, it's why the only choice is to vote for a wannabe dictator and La-Z-boy loving sidekick.
TaiwanIsNotChina
I think we can safely say that any Democrats that actually jumped ship for MAGA like Tulsi Gabbard are full on looney toons.
Underworld
fxgai
He was a poor loser at the last election, but come on now… he isn’t doing this presidential thing for the money.
He's doing it to stay out of jail.
He has absolutely no interest in America at all. All Trump is interested in is himself.
He's not running.
Yeah, don't believe everything you read. Did you read that Egypt gave Trump $10 million and Barr quashed the investigation.
He stepped down.
wallace
Harris is now more of a threat to Trump's candidacy than Biden was.
wallace
bass4funk
A problem is when the GOP became the Trump party.
You are not a member of the GOP. Will you now rejoin?
Not all Republicans support him.
Still, a very divided party when it comes to Trump. Some Republicans will not vote for a felon.
He divides the party and the nation. He can't unify anyone.
Guest you missed the DNC Obama on Biden and Obama on Harris. You can probably watch it on YouTube.
MAGA supporters throw a lot of crap around about Marxism and Socialism.
What a "big"?
Blacklabel
Is a patent considered private property? Kamala said she would take away for those who don’t comply with her wishes.
so it’s not a stretch to think she wouldn’t confiscate guns or my home.
bass4funk
For once I actually agree.
So what’s the West Coasts excuse??
As a former California native, since 1993
Blacklabel
No investor or anyone else who owns anything that appreciates will be voting for an unrealized gains tax of 25%.
so her voters are the socialists who don’t want anyone to own anything. or worse expect her to give them what I own/have earned.
Not gonna happen.
Underworld
Blacklabel
This old trope? Scare tactics constantly trotted out by the right, and yet has never, ever happened.
And it can't happen, because the Supreme Court would throw out any such attempt.
The right know this, but fear is their game, and they use these lies to scare voters.