The Vice President Kamala Harris and the president Joe Biden addressed the 2024 Phoenix Awards Dinner at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundationon Saturday.
President Joe Biden took the stage to address attendees at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday, noting that during his tenure in the White House, his administration “proved that democracy can meet the needs of our people. Donald Trump’s failed presidency eroded trust and democracy’s inability to meet the needs of the nation.”
Biden again condemned Donald Trump and JD Vance for spreading racist slurs about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
“Right now, his running mate is attacking Haitian Americans in Ohio. It’s wrong. It has to stop,” Biden said. Leaders “should reject hatred of America and not incite it. Friends, to win this battle for the soul of the nation, we must preserve our democracy and denounce lies and hatred.”
Democratic presidential candidate and vice president Kamala Harris said that “America is ready to turn the page on the politics of division and hate.” in his speech at the CBC awards dinner.
Harris thanked the president for being “one of the most transformative presidents in American history.”
“I truly believe that the United States is ready to turn the page on the politics of division and hatred,” Harris said to the approximately 3,500 people who attended the Washington Convention Center and noted that, on the other hand, former President Donald Trump, “and his extremist allies” intend to “take the country backwards.”
The Democrat, once again, He reiterated the importance of going to the polls to vote in the elections next November.
Harris touched on many of her campaign themes during her remarks, including support for reproductive rights and health care. She alluded to her opponent, Donald Trump, and his response during Tuesday’s debates on how would health care improve.
“We have a plan for health care, not just concepts of a plan,” Harris told the audience.
“As a proud former member of the CBC, I know firsthand that America depends on the leaders in this room,” Harris noted, who this summer became the first black woman to run for the Democratic Party.
Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian descent, campaigned in Washington on Saturday and took part in a fundraising event before attending the gala.
Harris has just spent much of the week in Pennsylvania, a key state in this election.
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