MSNBC, July 30, 2024
Watch live as Vice President Kamala Harris holds her first campaign event in Atlanta, Ga., since becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate.
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases a video of presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign speech in Atlanta, Georgia on July 30, 2024.
This post also presents an excerpt of the auto-generated transcript of that speech
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Thanks to Kamala Harris and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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TRANSCRIPT EXCERPT
This excerpt includes my addition of punctuation, capitalization, and spelling corrections. This excerpt doesn't include the audience's chants during that speech or most of the audiences' responses to Kamala Harris' words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g1nLZiUNps "Harris to Trump: Say it to my face! I Full Atlanta Rally", MSNBC, July 30, 2024
[This transcript excerpt is from 3:08- to around 20.36. Prior to 3:08 in this video Kamala Harris
was thanking people and recognizing (giving shout outs) to government officials and other notable people in the audience.]
"So, Georgia it is so
good to be back, And I am very clear. The path to the White House Runs right
through this state. And you all helped us win in 2020
and we're going to do it again in 2024.
[Applause]
So let's get right down. So I'm going get… I'mma
get into some business now. Okay, I'm going get
into some business now.
All
right. So, Georgia as many of you know before- and have a seat if you have a
chair.
As many of you know, before I was elected Vice President and before I was
elected a United States Senator, I was an elected Attorney General and an elected District Attorney. And before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. So in those roles I took on perpetrators of al kinds- predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say -I know Donald Trump's type. And I have been dealing with people like him my entire career. For example, as Attorney General of California I took on one of our country's largest for-profit colleges that was scamming students. Well, Donald Trump ran a for-profit college that scammed students. As a prosecutor I specialized in child sexual abuse cases and sexual abuse cases. Well, Trump was found liable for committing sexual abuse. And as an attorney general I held the Big Wall Street banks accountable for fraud. Donald Trump was just found guilty of fraud.
[Applause]
So, in this campaign I will proudly put my record against his any day, including on the issue of immigration. So I was the Attorney General of a border state. In that job I walked underground tunnels between the United States and Mexico on that border with law enforcement officers. I went after transnational drug cartels and human traffickers that came into our country illegally. I prosecuted them in case after case and I won.
Donald Trump, Donald Trump, on the other hand. has been talking a big game about securing our border. But he does not walk the walk or- as my friend Quavo would say “He does not walk it like he talks”.
Look, our administration worked on the most significant border security bill in decades. Some of the most conservative Republicans in Washington DC supported that bill. Even the border patrol endorsed it. .It was all set to pass, but Trump directed his allies in the Senate to vote it down. He tanked, tanked the bipartisan deal because he thought it would help him win an election, which goes to show Donald Trump does not care about border security. He only cares about himself.
And when I am President, I will work to actually solve the problem. ..So here is my pledge to you. As President I will bring back the border security bill that Donald Trump killed and I will sign it, show Donald Trump what real leadership looks
[Applause]
like.
But, make no mistake, this campaign is not just about us versus Donald Trump. Truly, this campaign is about two very different Visions for our nation. One focused on the future, the other focused on the past.
We believe in a future where every person has the opportunity to build a business, to own a home, to build inner generational wealth. A future with affordable health care, affordable child care, and paid leave. And all of this is to say -building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency because we here all know when our middle class is strong, America is strong. And to keep our middle class strong, families need relief from the high cost of living so that they have a chance not just to get by, but to get ahead.
And, yes, it is true that by many indicators our economy is the strongest in the world. But while inflation is down and wages are up, prices are still too high. You know it and I know It.
And when we win this election, here's what we're going to do about it. On day one, I will take on price gouging and bring down costs. We will ban more of those hidden fees and surprise shares that banks and other companies use to pad their
[Applause]
profit. We will take on corporate landlords and cap unfair rent increases. And we will take on big pharma to cap prescription drug costs for all America. Our plan will lower costs and save many middle class families thousands of dollars a year. But Donald Trump has a different plan in mind, one that would raise prices on middle class families. Just look at his Project 2025 agenda. I take it you've seen it. Project 2025 is a plan to weaken the middle class, be clear. And Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security and Medicare. He intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations. He intends to gut our investments in clean energy jobs. He intends to end the Affordable Care Act to take us back to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with pre-existing conditions. You guys remember what that was. Children with asthma, breast cancer survivors, grandparents with diabetes. Georgia, America has tried these failed policies before and We Are Not Going Back.
[Applause]
And we are not going back because ours is a fight for the future. And it is a fight for Freedom. Across our nation we are witnessing a full on assault on hard fought, hard won freedoms and rights- the freedom to vote, the freedom to be safe from gun violence, the freedom to live without fear of bigotry and hate, the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride, the freedom to learn and acknowledge our true and full history, and the freedom of a woman
to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to do.
Ours is a fight for the future and for freedom. and I don't have to tell folks in Atlanta that generations of Americans before us led the fight for freedom. And now the baton is in our
[Applause]
hands each and every one of us. And we love our country. We love our country. And I believe it is the highest form of patriotism to fight for the ideals of our country.
And so we who believe in the sacred freedom to vote will finally passed the Freedom To Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act .
We who believe in the freedom to live safe from gun violence will finally pass universal background checks, red flag laws, and an assault weapons ban.
We who believe in reproductive freedom will stop Donald Trump's extreme abortion bans. And when Congress passes a law to restore reproductive freedoms, as President of the United States, I will sign it into law.
So November 5th, November 5th is in 98 days.
So in 98 days and let's level set, friends, let's level set. We have a fight in front of us. We have a fight in front of us and we are the underdogs in this race. We are. But, you see, this is a people powered campaign. Ours is a people powered campaign. In fact, after I announced my candidacy, we saw the best week of grassroots fundraising in presidential campaign history. And, if you go to kamalaharris.com, you can help us build on that success.
So the momentum in this race is shifting and there are signs that Donald Trump is feeling it. You may have noticed so last week. You may have seen he pulled out of the debate in September he had previously agreed to. So so so here's the thing. Here, here's the funny thing about that.Here's the funny thing about that. So he won't debate, but he and his running mate sure seem to have a lot to say about
[Applause]
me. And, by the way, don't you find some of their stuff to just be plain
[Applause]
weird? Well,
[Applause]
Donald I do hope you'll reconsider to meet me on the debate
[Applause]
stage because -as the saying goes- “If you got something to say, say it to my face.”
[Applause]
Thank you so much, Georgia. In the next 98 days we have our work cut out for us. And this is not going to be easy. This is hard work. But we like hard work. Hard work is good work.
So, Georgia, today I ask you, are you ready to get to work?
[YES!!]
Do we believe in freedom?
[YES!!]
Do we believe in opportunity?
[YES!!]
Do we believe in the promise of America and are we ready to fight for
it?
[YES!!]
And when we fight we win.
God bless you!"
-snip-
*Additions and corrections are welcome. The words in brackets are the audience's response to her end of speech motivating questions.
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