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RECAP: (3-4 minutes) ⇢ Kamala Harris January 27, 2019 Launch Speech
“OUR AMERICA
...nearly 30 years ago as a young district attorney I walked into the courtroom for the very first time and said the five words that would guide my life’s work: “Kamala Harris, for the people.”
I knew I wanted to protect people.
And I knew that the people in our society who are most often targeted by predators are also most often the voiceless and vulnerable.
And I believed then as I do now, that no one should be left to fight alone.
And in the fight for the people to hold this administration accountable, I have seen the amazing spirit of the American people.
Together we took on these battles.
To be sure we’ve won and we’ve lost, but we’ve never stopped fighting.
We are here because we have another battle ahead.
We are here knowing that we are at an inflection point in the history of our world.
We are at an inflection point in the history of our nation.
We are here because the American Dream and our American democracy are under attack and on the line like never before.
We are here at this moment in time because we must answer a fundamental question.
Who are we? Who are we as Americans?
And in this moment, we must all speak truth about what’s happening.
Seek truth, speak truth and fight for the truth.
And let’s speak the biggest truth, the biggest truth of all: In the face of powerful forces trying to sow hate and division among us, the truth is that as Americans we have much more in common than what separates us. Let’s speak that truth.
So, let’s not buy into that stuff that they are trying to peddle. Let’s never forget, that on the fundamental issues, we all have so much more in common than what separates us.
I say we will rise together or we will fall together as one nation, indivisible.
And I want to be perfectly clear: I’m not talking about unity for the sake of unity. Hear me out. I’m not talking about unity for the sake of unity.
I’m not talking about some façade of unity.
When we have true unity, no one will be subjugated for others. It’s about fighting for a country with equal treatment, collective purpose, and freedom for all.
That’s who we are.
And so, I stand before you today, clear-eyed about the fight ahead and what has to be done — with faith in God, with fidelity to country, and with the fighting spirit I got from my mother. I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of the United States.
I’m running for president because I love my country. I love my country.
I’m running to be president, of the people, by the people, and for all people.
I’m running to fight for an America where the economy works for working people.
For an America where you only have to work one job to pay the bills, where hard work is rewarded and where any worker can join a union.
I am running to declare, once and for all, that health care is a fundamental right, and we will deliver that right with Medicare for All!
I am running to declare education is a fundamental right, and we will guarantee that right with universal pre-k and debt-free college!
I am running to guarantee working and middle-class families an overdue pay increase. We will deliver the largest working and middle-class tax cut in a generation. Up to $500 a month to help America’s families make ends meet.
I’m running to fight for an America where our democracy and its institutions are protected against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
I’m running to fight for an America where no mother or father has to teach their young son that people may stop him, arrest him, chase him, or kill him, because of his race.
An America where every parent can send their children to school without being haunted by the horror of another killing spree.
Where we treat attacks on voting rights and civil rights and women’s rights and immigrant rights as attacks on our country itself.
An America where we welcome refugees and bring people out of the shadows, and provide a pathway to citizenship.
An America where our daughters, where our sisters, where our mothers and grandmothers are respected where they live and where they work.
Where reproductive rights are not just protected by the Constitution of the United States but guaranteed in every state.
I’ll fight for an America where we keep our word and where we honor our promises.
Because that’s our America.
That’s the America I believe in.
That’s the America I know we believe in.
And as we embark on this campaign, I will tell you this: I am not perfect.
Lord knows, I am not perfect.
But I will always speak with decency and moral clarity and treat all people with dignity and respect. I will lead with integrity. And I will speak the truth.
It’s not going to be easy.
They’ll say it’s not your time. They’ll say wait your turn. They’ll say the odds are long. They’ll say it can’t be done.
But...As Robert Kennedy many years ago said, “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
He also said, “I do not lightly dismiss the dangers and the difficulties of challenging an incumbent President, but these are not ordinary times and this is not an ordinary election.” He said, “At stake is not simply the leadership of our party and even our country. It is our right to moral leadership of this planet.”
So today I say to you my friends, these are not ordinary times. And this will not be an ordinary election. But this is our America.
And here’s the thing. It’s up to us.
So let’s remember in this fight we have the power of the people.
We can achieve the dreams of our parents and grandparents.
We can heal our nation.
We can give our children the future they deserve.
We can reclaim the American Dream for every single person in our country.
We can restore America’s moral leadership on this planet.
So let’s do this.
And let’s do it together.
And let’s start now.
Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.
You can find the original speech in full here
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And the best candidate for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination is Kamala Harris, IMO...
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OFA, Organizing for America, and the Democratic National Redistricting Committee have merged:
The former president’s activist group Organizing for Action will be folded into a fight to end gerrymandering."\
On Thursday he announced that the progressive Organizing for Action group, which formed out of the pieces of Obama’s re-election campaign, would be folded into the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
In a Medium post, Obama called gerrymandered maps “undemocratic” and “unrepresentative,” saying they have “too often stood in the way of change.”
While OFA had previously partnered with the NDRC, the former will now cease to exist, according to The Atlantic. Its resources will be funneled to help the redistricting group fulfill its mission to fairly redraw state maps where district boundaries have been manipulated to make Democrat wins more difficult.
The merger will create a “joint force focused on this issue of singular importance,” Obama said, per The Atlantic. ... "
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About the National Democratic Redistricting Committee:
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→ Fact checking organizations courtesy of the Society of Professional Journalists
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→ Some of my favorite, most informative
follows on Twitter include:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ US Intelligence | Author | Navy Senior Chief | NBC/MSNBC
⭐⭐⭐ Federal Government Operations | Vanity Fair | Newsweek | MSNBC Contributor | Author
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Voting Rights/Voter Suppression | Author | Mother Jones
→ Some of my favorite, highly credible media -- at the moment:
📰📰📰 Mother Jones
📰📰📰📰 The Washington Post
→ Some of my favorite Talking Heads -- at the moment -- and their Twitter handles:
→ Some of my favorite media/panelists -- at the moment -- and their Twitter handles:
✅✅✅✅ Joan Walsh national affairs correspondent for The Nation; CNN political contributor
✅✅✅ Heidi Przybyla USA TODAY Senior Political Reporter
✅✅✅✅ Jennifer Rubin Conservative blogger at @ WashingtonPost's Right Turn,MSNBC contributor
✅✅✅ Natasha Bertrand Staff writer @ The Atlantic covering national security & the
Intel community. @ NBCNews/@ MSNBC contributor
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→ Some of my favorite Democrat Party Leaders to follow on Twitter, not in elected office but proving knowledge & experience are positives & not negatives are:
Former First Lady Michelle Obama
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Former Labor Secretary/Today's DNC Chair Tom Perez
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