After several nervous months and a lack of enthusiasm, the Democrats regained their passion last night with a leader who exuded strength on stage. Kamala Harris closed her party’s convention with a detailed review of what will be four years of her presidency. It has been her most demanding test since she became a presidential candidate just over a month ago. During her speech she promised to fight price speculation in food and housing, relieve the middle class, claim “freedom” for all Americans, regardless of race, economic level or state in which they live, and return optimism and unity to American life at a time when the country is more polarized than ever.
The feat was not easy. Kamala had to walk a fine and dangerous line, presenting herself as a new leader with her own ideas who inherits an administration with which she agrees on most political lines, but not all. The conflict in Ukraine or the war in the Gaza Strip were sensitive issues. Those attending the last day of the Convention, and practically the entire country, have been waiting impatiently for almost a month for the candidate to speak out on these thorny issues for her political career.
Last night Harris definitively accepted her mission of keeping the Democratic Party in the White House for at least one more presidency. With a personal and patriotic speech she tried to convince voters that she is ready to become their 47th commander in chief, and lead the change that the country seeks. That is why preparing a speech that she gave yesterday before a packed hall has not been easy for her, her aides say. Each word was written carefully, and in recent weeks she has been doing multiple rehearsals with a teleprompter in three different time zones. Some of the ideas that the attendees heard last night came from afar, from the first drafts she created when she ran in her party’s primary elections in 2019.
Yesterday the vice president told the story of her life. It was very necessary because Kamala has been the running mate of Joe Biden for four years, but Americans know very little about her. The president’s second in command has hardly been seen and she only has 74 days before Americans go to the polls. A black woman, of immigrant parents, middle class, who understands the current struggle of many families in need. Her first jobs were at a McDonald’s and they contrast with the cushion of dollars in which she grew up. Donald Trumpwhich quickly allowed him to become the most successful real estate developer in New York.
Kamala knows that her years as a California prosecutor will take on even greater importance in her confrontation with a rival like the former president, who has recently been found guilty of 34 criminal charges. Harris also wanted to frame the 2020 presidential race as an open-field confrontation between the future she represents, in which she will fight for “freedoms” on issues as personal as reproductive rights; and the past that her rival draws, with Project 2025, a manual that the Democrats are trying to unite with Trump, despite the fact that the Republican has distanced himself on several occasions from this ultraconservative and extremist agenda that is being promoted by a small group of his party.
The Democratic candidate has made it clear that she will govern for “all Americans,” because “we love this country,” her running mate, the governor of Minnesota, said Wednesday. Tim Walz. The easy-going, forthright coach and former teacher from the Midwest gave, curiously, one of the shortest speeches of the night. It was in keeping with the general tone of this nominating convention, which has featured heavily in most of the speeches. “I’m ready to move on from these guys,” Tim Walz told his audience, also referring to the Republican vice presidential candidate. JD Vance“So shout it with me: We’re not going back to that.” “In Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make,” she said in a defense of reproductive rights, “and even when we don’t make the same choices we have one golden rule: Mind your own damn business!”
Walz did not hesitate to share his story of how, thanks to science, he has been able to become the father of two young people who last night stirred up passions among the attendees. His son Gus The event has received extensive coverage in the American press, which has highlighted how the excited young man stood up from his seat and shouted through tears of happiness “that’s my father.” “Freedom,” “patriotism” and “hope” have been the words most often spoken during the four days of the Democratic Convention. In this sense, January 6, 2021 occupied a prominent place on the third night. “It was a dangerous moment for our democracy,” said an energetic Nancy Pelosi“never before has a US president so brazenly attacked the foundations of our democracy, so gleefully embraced political violence and so wilfully betrayed his oath of office.” The two-time House Speaker, who voluntarily gave up her own power last year at the age of 84, was greeted with loud applause. Her courage in putting on the table that her old friend Joe Biden was no longer up for more political trots has made her a heroine within the party, which last night supported Kamala Harris, claiming to know that “the vice president is ready to take us to new heights.”