Jennifer Bendery is a senior politics reporter for HuffPost. She has covered Congress and the White House for HuffPost since April 2011. Prior to that, she reported on Congress for four years for Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, and spent four years covering the Texas Legislature for GalleryWatch in Austin, TX.
In a speech that drew wild applause and left some in tears, Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday formally accepted her party’s nomination for president, laid out her vision for the country and wasted no time spelling out how dangerous a re-elected Donald Trump would be for women, middle-class Americans and the rule of law itself.
She described the “chaos and calamity” that marked Trump’s first term as president and then the gravity of what came next: Trump incited an insurrection on January 6, 2021, to try to prevent the votes for Joe Biden to become president from being counted. On top of that, Trump was impeached twice and, since leaving office, has been convicted of 34 felony counts in the hush-money case and was found liable for committing sexual abuse and defamation.
Vice President Harris: We know what a second Trump term would look like. It's all laid out in Project 2025. But America, we are not going backSomehow, it’s only been a month since Harris became the nominee. It’s been a stunning but remarkably smooth process of Harris stepping in after President Joe BidenIn her speech, Harris acknowledged the unusual path that led her to the stage, comparing it to the family journey that led her immigrant parents to the United States.
Beyond whipping up Democrats, though, Harris appealed to Americans watching on TV who may not share her political views. She promised to be a president for them, too.
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