Friday, August 23, 2024-Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago on Thursday, August 22 before a rapturous crowd, pledging a “new way forward” and warning that her rival, Republican party candidate, Donald Trump ‘’will take America backwards'' if he wins November’s blockbuster election.
The 59-year-old delivered a message of
unity and patriotism for Americans after taking over from Joe Biden who is set
to retire from politics in November.
“With this election, our nation has a
precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and
divisive battles of the past — a chance to chart a new way forward,” Harris
said to huge cheers from tens of thousands of pumped-up supporters.
“And I want
you to know: I promise to be a president for all Americans.”
She was later joined on stage by her
running mate Tim Walz and their families, as they held their arms aloft amid
ovation from the crowd.
“I will be a president who unites us around our highest aspirations,” she
vowed.
Harris then launched attacks at 78-year-old
Trump, whose campaign has been upended by having to face a woman two decades
younger, rather than the sick Biden who is 81.
“We know
what a second Trump term would look like,” she said, saying he wanted to “pull
our country back to the past.”
Turning to foreign policy, she accused Trump of trying to “cozy up” to foreign
autocrats like Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Harris pledged instead to “stand strong”
with Ukraine as it fights Russia’s invasion and supports NATO allies.
Harris is the first Black Asian woman to be nominated by a major US party.
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